Try some cheese the next time!
Posted on 01/26/2002 7:57:53 PM PST by SENTINEL
About thirty minutes ago, while freeping, I heard my German Shepherd / Akita mix fighting with something out back where she is tied up here in Anchorage. I have seen a few foxes lately, and figured they wanted her food, so while running through my machine shop on the way to the back door, I grabbed the first thing I saw for a weapon, a 3 pound sledge. This mighty hammer with it's chipped orange painted head and hickory handle made me feel like the invincible Thor as I opened the door to see what it was that was keeping my guard dog so noisily busy.
MOOSE !! One female ...10 feet @ 12 o'clock and a large bull 15 feet out @ 10 o'clock, both trying to stomp the life out of my very angry dog ! Chesty (named of course after the Marine corps mascot) was somehow not only managing to stay out of the 4 very heavy hooves' way, but was repeatedly lungeing at the throats of the goofy looking clydesdale sized aggressors. My repeated USMC Drill instructor quality barks had no effect, and my valiant dog was flat out of rope. So I did what any good Marine would do...CHARGE !!
And with a blood curdling scream that William Wallace would be proud of, and a crappy chinese hammer, I took on 2500 pounds of Alaskan fury !
I am convinced that there is a merciful God in heaven, who saves wanna be superheroes from themselves.
The female instantly turned her anger toward me, as I grabbed the rope my mighty warrior of a dog was tied to, and lowered her fire-hydrant sized head to plow me over with. The steam from her breath wetted my face as I cracked her right between the eyes with the steel head of the mallet. I honestly remember worrying that the head of the cheap harbor freight sledge would fly off the handle because of how hard I swung it.
I then bolted the 10 feet back into the door of my shop, dog in tow and felt a little shove from a moose nose right as I entered the doorway. Chesty took one more bite as I dragged her past the cow moose which did not enter the shop as I feared it would.
The bull, luckily, had been pushed to the side by the cow when she came after me. I, without thinking, untied my dog, and told her to go back into the shop. She of course went right back out after the moose, who decided to bug out, and ran into the forest. What a good dog !
Although the sledgehammer and my hand both have some blood spatterring, it felt as though it had made contact with a main battle tank.
I think I'll go home and cook up some moose burgers, one for myself, and one for my dog, she's earned it !
By the way, you know the moose/cheese people will be here soon, don't you? LOL!
Try some cheese the next time!
Fine spirit. Sure glad ya' didn't get stomped yourself.
It's THOR, with mjolnir!
Hate to see you listed on the Freeper Darwin Award nominations......
Ooh Rah Marine!
NeverGore :^)
Many years ago, when our first boy was just a baby, we went to Yellowstone Natl Park for vacation....all together there was me, my hubby, our first boy, Mike, my mom and my dad....there was a big crowd on one of the roads, so dad pulled over to see what the excitement was about...
It was supposed to be a moose...well, mom and dad did not feel like getting out of the car, and my son was nursing, so just my husband went, intending to get some pictures...
So the hubby, camera in hand, decides not to stay with the hundred or so other tourists, but instead goes up a hill and comes around the back of the moose....all of a sudden the moose got startled, and charged...not at the crowd, but the opposite way, towards my husband...he said he was so scared, seeing that huge animal coming at him...all he could do was scamper up a tree, which thankfully was nearby....
As all the other tourists were coming to their cars, we could not see my husband coming...so I asked one of the other people about my husband, describing him....someone said, yep, I saw him...hes cornered up a tree by that mad moose...
that moose kept my husband treed for over 1/2 an hour before he gave up and left...we still laugh about that incident today, altho at the time, my husband said it was no laughing matter...
An Akita/German Shepard is no shrinking violet of a dog -- but with two moose she was probably over-matched! You had to do something.
BTW You're never gonna hear the end of moose/bite/sister/cheese stuff now.
You don't happen to have some gorgonzola laying around the fridge. I hear it keeps the moose away.
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