Homeowners Told To Remove Moose Carcasses

AP ^ | 4/20/04 | unknown

[I_saw_the_light]

ANCHORAGE -- Eagle River resident Glenn Gibeault discovered a dead moose on his quarter-acre near Eagle River Road last month. As the snow started melting, an ear emerged.

He called the state Department of Fish and Game.

"'It's your moose,'" Gibeault said he was told.

If a moose dies alongside a road or in a ditch, Fish and Game will call on a trapper or city or state road crews to haul it off. But if one dies on private property, the homeowner has to dispose of the carcass.

"Our policy is once a moose is dead, it's not ours anymore. People are stuck moving them themselves," state biologist Rick Sinnott. "People get very upset with us, obviously. They figure it's still our moose."

[I_saw_the_light]

Came across this and couldn't resist. have at it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Alaskans expect the state to pick up dead animals? I thought they'd be a little more self-sufficient than this!

[I_saw_the_light]

How much does a moose weigh? Vultures need to eat too...LOL

[Ramius]

That's not my moose.

[Drango]

Moose can be very dangerous. One bit my sister once. I gotta go take a shower now...

[Catspaw]

Before you take your shower, would you like some cheese?

[bayourod]

Don't know about mooses, but in Texas when a cow dies on the ranch we save the skull to prove the deduction to the IRS. Whenever anyone gets audited, all the ranchers in the area lend him their skulls.

[Billthedrill]

Mess with the moose, taste the antler...

[Ramius]

I can see how a dead moose would be a larger than normal problem. Larger, say, than a dead raccoon. It takes a bigger hole than I personally would care to dig.

[HairOfTheDog]

I am gonna guess moose range 800-1200 pounds... about the size of my horse, maybe toward the lighter side if it was sick enough to die.

Got a guy down here who keeps tigers... he asked if he could have my horses when they die. Maybe he should move to moose country.

[HairOfTheDog]

Last year when a horse died on trail too far for a vehicle to get to it.... they blew it up with dynamite. They left the pieces... scavengers just couldn't deal with it all in one piece.

[ironmaidenPR2717]

"Friends, Romans, countrymen......"

[holyscroller]

Costs us a minimum of $100 to haul off a dead llama to the dogfood factory. For moose disposal...drag it to the road and shove it in a ditch. Give those county highway guys something useful to do besides just leanin on their shovels all day. Whenever we see a highway crew around here, they're parked sleeping or drinking coffee. Occasionally there'll be 4 or 5 of them leaning on shovels beside the road somewhere.

[HairOfTheDog]

This is the same concept... Just need to break it up a little and the birds will cart it off...

The exploding whale...

[tje]

Dynamite it, let the seagulls carry off the little pieces.

[FourPeas]

they blew it up with dynamite

So, Daddy, wha'd you do at work today?

[CharlotteVRWC]

Wow,,,and I fret when my neighbor won't mow his lawn.

[FourPeas]

Costs us a minimum of $100 to haul off a dead llama to the dogfood factory.

It's truly amazing the things one can learn on FreeRepublic.

[grassroot]

Didn't they try that somewhere on a beached whale...with disastrous results?

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh.... keep reading!