There was this wacky woman at the stable where I used to ride who was taking all the "horse whispering" courses. She'd be out there chasing her horse around like an idiot. One day the horse tried to mount her. Literally. The owner of the stable told her to take her horse and her voodoo and kindly go somewhere else.
I hope this doesn’t end up like the guy with the hippo, or the bear guy, or....
It’s a wild animal. All the cool stories and desires to be “one with nature” can’t make it otherwise.
Each year in Alaska more people are injured by moose than by bears. In the past ten years two people have died from moose attacks in the Anchorage area. Each year there are at least 5-1O moose-related injuries in the Anchorage area alone, with many reports of charging moose in neighborhoods or on ski trails.
This woman is a deluded fool.
My wife has a license from the state of Idaho to rescue orphanged ungulates (deer, elk, and moose). We started 6 years ago with an orphaned bull moose calf.
“Maynard” grew from 18 to over 600 lbs. by the time we chased him off in the Spring. He was never aggressive but we never forgot that he was a wild animal. My wife was his “Mom” and he considered me his play partner. That got interesting at times. If he started to get too rambunctious a few harsh words and he would stop and hang his head like a scolded dog. A 600 lb. scolded dog, that is.
Since then we have rescued 4 mule deer fawns, a male elk calf, and over a dozen white tail fawns. We bottle feed them until they are ready for solid food and then open the enclosure gates at the end of summer in what my wife calls “soft release”.
My own experiences with Alaskan moose and “Maynard of Idaho” has taught me that as long as they are well-fed, not threatened, and not in rut they are fairly docile.
That being said, one must ALWAYS treat them as unpredictable wild animals that are not pets. To forget that is to invite trouble.