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Police Shot Dead a Large Marten that Attacked old Woman in Albany

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(added few years ago!)
GLENVILLE, N.Y. Police in an Albany-area town shot and killed a 20-pound fisher after it chased a man walking a dog and later attacked a woman in her garage.
All this happened when a man reported that an animal resembling an otter went after his dog last evening.
A 61-year-old woman was also attacked by  the fisher when she went out to throw away garbage.
The animal stuck fastened onto her foot and wouldn't let go until she struck it with a fire extinguisher She said. The two-foot-long fisher then ran into her house through the door she left open, and the woman had to chase it out.
Police were able to track the fisher through the tracks it left in the snow, and one of the officers shot and killed it.
The dead body of the fisher (large marten) was sent to the state's wildlife lab to be tested for rabies.

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