Posted on 01/18/2020 12:20:35 PM PST by Hojczyk
Curtis Phelps had just taken out the trash on the morning of Jan. 11 when he spotted something heading his way out of the corner of his eye. It turned out to be a large bull moose, and Phelps knowing the animals can be aggressive quickly shut himself back inside the shed.
According to Curtis wife Amy, her husband immediately called her on his mobile phone but she ignored the call, thinking it was accidental.
I had no clue that the poor thing was stuck in there, she said of her husband, the Associated Press reported.
Curtis, not knowing whether it was safe to come out, then tried dialing his 13-year-old daughter, who was asleep in her bedroom. She, too, ignored her phone.
Amy finally picked up on Curtis third attempt to phone his family, at which point she realized he was trapped in the shed.
She eventually confirmed that the moose had made its way across the street, allowing Curtis to run back into the house.
The family told AP that they believe this moose may be the same that was birthed in their backyard two years ago and that hes been returning regularly to check out his old stomping grounds. He once ate a Christmas wreath, they say. This time, however, he only did minor damage to the shed.
Its cracked a little bit," Amy said.
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You have to have a tag to bag a moose, in season. And those you can only get via lottery. Dont want the fish & game hawks up your a$$.
Always moose and squirrel
Better than a moose horn hitting your head!:)
Uh huh. She hired that moose. I'd keep an eye on her if I was him.
Bullwinkle just wanted to make friends.
thats the moose-ing link.
A moose is featured in the middle of this video...
Johnny Horton - North to Alaska (unreleased version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFfffSSarSU
Probably made in NYC............
The Moose is loose!
A few years ago, a couple, we knew, had a cougar, (4 legged type) watching them once a week after dinner time.
They realized that it was monitoring them on their trips to get their garbage cans to the pickup spot every Monday evening after dinner time. The distance was about 100 yards each way. The garbage pickup was early on each Tuesday morning.
So it became a full family garbage can operation with the dad carrying a 12 gauge pump shotgun loaded with double 0’s. Their teenage son had a pistol strapped to his lap. The Mom had some portable noise maker.
Our home as a crow would fly or a cougar taking a direct route was about 5 miles south of where they lived.
The next fall, we had a fox family invasion and called a local trapper. He trapped a couple of the kits and released them somewhere else.
After a few days of no more foxes, the trapper came back to pickup his empty trap.
I joked about not trapping a cougar, and I told him about the people, who had the cougar problem
Suddenly, he got serious and asked if I had seen or heard a cougar. He and local cops had heard of a dark cougar being seen about 100 yards west of us and around our local hills and arroyo.
He asked not to alarm anyone but to ask our neighbors and get back to him. A neighbor due west was sure that she and her husband had seen a dark cougar in evening at about sunset. Then, one of their fat barn cats went missing and still is.
Our next door neighbor thought he saw a large dark coyote on his property one evening after dinner, again the night before garbage pickup.
I informed the trapper, and he said that it might have been the same cat that bugged our friends. I said that was far away.
The trapper said there were a series of arroyos running from where the other cougar had been seen. For a cougar living in either area, that would be a short night time hunting trip.
We started taking out our weekly garbage in groups for the few weeks and making noises with a lot of lights. We saw nothing.
Our grandson was visiting about a year later, he saw a large dark gray coyote ambling from across the street to our driveway. He got me out to look. Then, the big coyote just ambled away. He was very dark. Neighbors to the west saw him a couple of times.
The fires, we have had in the last 3 years apparently have relocated a lot of wild life. After this rainy season, most will be going back to their old grazing and hunting grounds with all the new grass/weeds growing.
The good news, no moose have been sighted.
Wife must have been behind the camera. Probably laughing loudly.
Mine would have been laughing then and while telling the story years later.
He’s lucky he had his phone with him, I usually don’t have mine with me doing chores.
Yes the moose is loose.
I felt with all of the crazy stuff going on, a few moose tales and jokes might be timely.
Doorbell video.
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“Candy gram!”
Who's my daddy, You my daddy?
This is the time of year that moose get hungry because they’ve already consumed all of the easy to reach browse. A hungry moose is not a happy moose. I got challenged by a young bull in February one year when I was out jogging on a remote road near Soldotna. I did a quick 180 and kept on jogging the other direction. You see one of those big fellas with its ears back you best not let it try to kiss your sister!
“You have to have a tag to bag a moose, in season.”
I was speaking figuratively, of course. Can’t just take aim from your back porch & blast away.
Or can you? I thought this was Alaska. If you are endangered by a brown bear, you can kill in self defense (reported to fish & game).
Isn’t being menaced by a hulking bullmoose something similar?
;^)
Appears to be a majestik moose.
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