Animal??

[bikeoutback]

I couldn't see and have never heard anything like it but last night something was in the yard that sounds like a very angry cat. My fiance heard it sometime last week go through and though it was 2 animals fighting. Our suet feeder was knocked down but no suet gone. The suet feeder has ended up like this about 4 times in the last 7-10 days now. Last night she woke me up at 3am as it was making it's way through the yard again but I couldn't see it at all. Wish I had a trail cam to put out.

It sounds like an angry cat or a cat fighting with something. I didn't see two animals going at it all and the neighbor said she heard what sounded like her cats fighting but it was just one larger cat that she couldn't identify either last week. What makes this noise? Could it be an overgrown POed barn cat? Or is it some kind of bobcat or wild cat? At first though maybe racoons fighting but it sounds more like a cat.

Note: Live about 20 miles outside Moose Lake, I know there is bear, coons, turkey, deer in this area just not sure about what wild cats might be around here.

[Jackpine Rob]

Don't go out to investigate! It sounds suspiciously like a Meander (probably a Lesser), and you don't want to mess with one of them. Vicious brutes, and absolutely the most feared bird in the Northwoods. Thankfully they seldom come around homes/people, so most have never seen one.

They run faster than a deer, have razor-sharp talons and a wickedly long and slightly hooked beak. While they tend to be a ground bird, in flight they are blazing quick and have been known to dive down on their prey from trees, often striking without warning.

Have a care.

[bobbymalone]

cats can make some crazy weird sounds when they're fightin' or &@#$in'.

[Jameson]

grey fox?

[jentz]

I have to agree with Jackpine!!

Or a coon makes some wierd cat like sounds when defending their area & food.

[Powerstroke]

I was thinking bear cubs or coons.

[jeffreyd]

chupacabra is what it sound like to me but could be a bobcat too

[HunterLee]

coons or cats, but if the feeder is knocked down its coons

[TUMBLEWEED]

A bandit (coon) for sure. And where there is

one there is another nearby!! Sounds like they

are making the rounds in your neck of the woods.

They squabble over feeding rights to that feeder

I'm sure.

[bikeoutback]

The suet holder I'm sure is being robbed by coons. It's on a string in a pine tree and everytime it's knocked down the string is looped up on top of the branch so something is pulling it up from the top of the branch.

Oddly I see the coons running around at times around 10-11pm but they are silent. This thing around 3am is loud. Wonder if we have a bobcat in the area or if it's just the coons fighting. Maybe one of these nights actually get a look at it. Guess it's time to charge up the spot light.

[nonteepical]

put out a trail cam

[mrklean]

big foot and a group of mt lions fighting

[nofishfisherman]

I was actually thinking it must be Bigfoot mating season.

[bikeoutback]

put out a trail cam

Don't own one...... yet

[DLoutdoors]

I've had the same experience: Woke up to horrible screaming/cat sounds: Grabbed a gun and ran outside only to find 3 coons going apespit on each other: I would bet anything it is coons.

[LightningBG]

I've had the same experience: Woke up to horrible screaming/cat sounds: Grabbed a gun and ran outside only to find 3 coons going apespit on each other: I would bet anything it is coons.

Did you shoot them?

[Archerysniper]

grey fox?

+1 for gray fox kind of a hissing/growling/scream

[psepuncher]

Your just hearing the natives of silly town fighting about trophy racks.

They can be very cantankerous until the opener.

[RumRiverRat]

ManBearPig?

[Dave S]

I agree with Jameson and Archerysniper on the Grey Fox. I've got one here too that comes around early morning. I didn't know what it was until I did a search for Grey Fox sounds. I've seen him in the yard several times over the past 2 years.

Grey Fox do climb trees also.

[Walleye Guy]

Sounds like you need to round up some buddies and go on a late night snipe hunt.