Posted on 05/21/2014 7:38:44 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
It's the kind of story as Canadian as maple syrup - a northern Ontario man found a baby moose on the side of the highway, picked it up and took it to Tim Hortons.
"She still had the umbilical cord and was still wet when I found her," Stephan Michel Desgroseillers told Shirley Erkila, who posted a video of her petting the calf outside the coffee shop near Sudbury, Ont., on Monday.
"The wolves would have got to her," Desgroseillers said.
In a posting on the radio station Q92 Rocks Facebook page, Desgroseillers said he was the one who picked up the small calf and took it to the Wild at Heart Animal Shelter, but not before having to keep it for the night.
On his own Facebook page, he said the moose calf was "the sweetest thing ever except for the crying."
The male calf is now being cared for by staff at the animal shelter.
Oh,so *that’s* where Canadian bacon comes from!
I actually finally saw my first Northern Ontario moose just outside of Sudbury this January, when I was coming back to Ottawa after Christmas holidays.
The ironic thing is that we have a huge deer population here within the city limits, inside Ottawa's greenspace. So I lived up until university in the sticks and never saw anything bigger than a rabbit, and now that I live in the city, I can go to the mall and watch deer grazing just across the street by the side of the road. (Along with a lot of wild turkeys, and foxes, the occasional coyote, and if the rumours are true, once in awhile a wildcat of some kind.)
But Americans aren't allowed to bring firearms into Canada so they had nothing to fear.
Not from Americans, maybe. On the other hand, we know what they taste like. Hard luck for the moose.
I don’t see anything remotely strange about the story, but that probably means that I have been where I am too long. I have lived about three hours south-east of Sudbury for the past 14 years, and have probably seen over a dozen of them, although a solid majority of the sightings have been in Algonquin Park.
The closest I have been is probably about seven feet, after swerving into the other lane (my wife was probably about two or three feet away, and fortunately not awake enough to know what was going on).
Who hasn’t?
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