Awww "The Moose" story.

When this moose was quite young he lost his mother too soon.

The Fish and Game brought him to Wendall and Debbie. They asked them to raise him to a safe age and then turn him loose again So they bottle fed and took care of him; after a while they put him with their cows. They named him Buddy. Last Spring when he was a year old .. it was time to turn him back into the wild. They opened the gate and off he went.
He stayed away all summer, then in the fall he came back to be with the cows.

He probably thinks he is a cow. Everyone was happy to see him and he is quite friendly. He loves honey buns and will eat them right out of your mouth
Wendall and Debbie live right up in the mountains so it came time to bring the cows down.

Well the moose was lonely all by himself so he headed down to find another heard of cows to hang with.

The neighbors called about a week later and asked Wendall to please come and get his Moose. So he headed out with a honey bun, bucket of grain and the horse trailer and brought him back home.The moose is free to go anytime he wants but is choosing to stay put for now.

Surely, come spring he will start to feel a bit like a male Moose and take off . but, for now he is happy.

 

What a great story Gogs, Ahhh he's lovely

 

Lovely story Gogs,I bet he will stay with them always as a family pet

 

Great isn't it,thought you would like it,think your right Kandy.

 

Just hope the mating urge does not make him grouchy. A contact in Finland wrote to me about the moose there, I think we refer to them as elk in Europe. They can be quite dangerous there. One of the females gave birth in a clump of trees in a small town and she was very aggressive. They are great big animals, a common cause of road death in Finland. When they walk out in front of cars the spindly legs go and that huge body goes through the windscreen. :eek:

 

OOOh thats terrible.....

 

Great pictures, Gogs and lovely story.

I don't think that mooses are usually aggressive. But of course when they have little ones, like most animals in that situation, they become aggressive...

 

I never realised they were that big ,2 metres at the shoulder. Thats one big deer. you wouldn't want that stepping on your toes. When we stayed in Finland my sons saw one, I only saw the tracks around the cabin.

 

Wasn't there a song about it, way back in the '60's? "There's a moose loose, aboot the hoose?" Apologies to any Scottish members. :D