Cue the Moose jokes and memes!
Pretty good sized moose....and, the guy didn’t have a jacket on, as he was just taking out the trash (to shed).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVjsCYlc1IY
Michael Bartiromo … Maria’s brother?
“This time, however, he only did minor damage to the shed.
“It’s cracked a little bit,” Amy said.”
In the video the moose never does anything the shed. So something does not add up. Is the video edited?
moosed him by that much...
“Sorry folks, shed’s closed. Moose out front should’ve told ya.”
A moose bit my sister.
Uh huh. She hired that moose. I'd keep an eye on her if I was him.
Bullwinkle just wanted to make friends.
A moose is featured in the middle of this video...
Johnny Horton - North to Alaska (unreleased version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFfffSSarSU
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.
He’s lucky he had his phone with him, I usually don’t have mine with me doing chores.
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!
Remind me of the time when I used to work at US steel in Chicago. We had this guy in the electrical department was a real jerk. We would take our break in a metal break shack along side where the scrap yard was. One day he came in there and we slowly made our way out of the shack one by one and welders welded the door shut. And we all took a hammer and started beating on the walls of the shack for like five minutes.
I’ve had three close encounters with moose here in Montana. I am more concerned about them than I am about mountain lions or wolves ... I’ve come across both.
On two occasions I drew my handgun. The other occasion all I had was a 9’ 5 weight fly rod. I was trapped behind a tree doing my Zorro imitation.
They are seriously big when they come upon you and are capable of stomping you to death. If you haven’t had a close encounter with one you can’t imagine just how freaking big they are.