My little one, and I do mean the smallest plant I have, was assaulted today.  This cutting was started in February or March and up-potted into the black planter in May.  It immediately popped three figs.  I removed one and let the others stay.  Three days ago I happened to see the top fig was turning brown.
 

Two days ago it was turning more purplish and getting soft.
 

Sunday morning, one day ago, it had started to droop and was beginning to soften, so I pulled out the trusty organza bag to protect my precious first ever home grown fig.

Monday morning as I walk out of the house...
 
...plant knocked to the ground, no fig in sight, organza bag disgarded...
 
...with nothing but crumbs.  Sad, sad start to a Monday morning.

I was really looking forward to slicing that little fig open so I could post pictures of the inside to get some help with ID.  There is still the mother tree, but she belongs to someone else.

Here's a picture of my little figgy's sibling.

One more:
 
The mother tree goes through the winter with zero protection, dies back, but resurrects itself in the spring.  It's been in the ground, according to the owner, since before '78.  Any help at identifying the variety of fig would be greatly appreciated.
**Will post pictures of ripe fig when possible.

Too bad your little fig tree got nocked over and robbed of that nice little fig. 
But clearly that little healthy looking tree will be a great fig producer so you will get lots of nice figs in the future.

Most of the leaves and that 1st fig look like a mount etna type fig.  
So it is likely a H.C. or some other similar strain they are all equally productive of delicious black figs in cool climates.  

You may want to find out who the culprit was and catch and relocate him.

Pino:  Thanks for the help with the ID.  I was hoping it's a Chicago Hardy.  I was surprised at how small the fig was, about the size of a walnut.  I wonder if it would have gotten any bigger even though it had started to droop.

Figpin:  I have seen raccoons in the yard, and opossums, but not this year.  Earlier this year I saw the cutest little rabbit running around the yard.  Yes, then I thought he was cute.  The last time I saw him he had more than doubled in size.  
Last night I accidentally left some blackberries and Malibar spinach leaves in a cup.  This morning the spinach leaves were laying on the ground near the cup but the blackberries were gone.  My niece told me that rabbits are nocturnal.  Both incidents happened at night.  I'm going to borrow a cage and try to trap it, whatever it is.

Coons come out at night. Get a hunting camera.

That's a good idea.  I have a friend that's into hunting.  Maybe he has one of those I can borrow (trying to keep costs down).

Lots or people have them. Ask around

there is one thing I learned about critters is this......if they get a meal from somewhere.  They WILL definitely come back every night to seek more.  So, you can either catch him or kill him.  Me?  I do both depending on my mood.  If I'm pissed....I put out poison and the next morning, I walk outside and can pick up dead coons or possums.  I've killed 3 coons and one possum over the last week.  It is sad but when you go outside and see a large fig tree with half eaten fruit hanging from a tree and branches broken....It can really piss a person off!

Covering up a fig with little bags work sometimes, but in my area, the coons will target those bags first!  So, I quit using those bags for now. 

What poison you use Dennis. I am at the pissed stage.

snaglpus:  Confession time.  The night before my figs got taken, right behind it a tomato had chew marks in it.  I was thinking that the critter didn't have a taste for figs.  Silly me.  I actually meant to bring the whole plant inside since it's so small, but I just forgot to do it.  Now I'm brainstorming how to protect the other plants that have figs on them.  One of the Kadotas, if I haven't gotten it mixed up with the Mission or the Brunswick, has some figs on it.  A couple of the (probably) Hardy Chicago have figs on them.  Trying to picture some kind of PVC enclosure.

Richie, BOL for this recipe via PM.  I don't want to publish it here.

Sorry but poisoning wildlife for the sake of a fig just seems wrong. 
A fig tree will produce thousands of figs if cared for. 

Everybody knows that poisons spread easily.  Pets or other wildlife can easily get into it.  Also I had my dog eat a mouse that was poisoned and got very sick and we almost lost her.

If it is a squirrel or the like then low cost cage traps work very well. 
There are as many creative solutions as there are people willing to try.
Here is one that was posted recently;

 http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1284785226&postcount=1&forum=0