Dark Fox-like animal
I thought from a distance a Skunk was standing on the road - out in the middle of nowhere. As we neared it, I saw it was much larger than a Skunk and was sitting in the middle of the road. It had longish, thin legs, body mostly black with dark brown streaky markings, bushy tail (like a fox but without the white tip). It had a smallish head and small pointed ears like a fox. I have been looking on the net and have found nothing like this critter. It looked at us viciously for a sec (as we swerved to miss it) then it turned and fled into the bushes. Anyone have any ideas as to what it might have been? EDIT: Two people suggested that you might have seen a Fisher. There is more information about Canadian Wildlife at this link to BorealForest.Org. Please let us know if this could be what you saw
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