What happened to the 6 year old boy was bitten by Fisher Cat?
A 6-year-old Hope Valley boy walking with his mother to the bus stop Monday morning was bitten by a fisher cat, Hopkinton police said Monday. Officials at the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management say that fisher cats, closely related to weasels and minks, prey on birds and small mammals and can be a threat to domestic cats. Hopkinton police said a woman on Karen Drive was walking her children to the bus stop at 8:02 a.m. Monday when she saw an animal near the road. At first she thought it was a cat, but she decided it could be a fox and turned the children around. As they walked away, the animal attacked her son, she told the police. She tried several times to kick it off, and when she succeeded, the animal “took an aggressive demeanor and appeared to be getting ready for a second attack,” the police report said. At that point, another child threw a backpack at the animal, which attacked the backpack. The distraction allowed the group to reach safety. A neighbor kicked t
