Blurry and not pretty photos, but my dog Paddy, his friend Jack, and I had an interesting time on our daily walk today. It is on a snowshoe trail we use most days. It was frozen today so I fortunately did not have my snowshoes on.
This first photo is of Jack antagonising a moose he and Paddy got out of bed just over the rise behind the moose. They barked for a while and the moose decided to settle it. Paddy (the smartest of the three of us) is back with me with Jack bothering the moose.
Next photo the moose has advanced and has its ears pinned. I have moved a bit closer and to the left to get behind a big tree. Jack is also starting to realise this isn't going how he planned:
Jack is heading for home with Moose in pursuit. I'm behind the tree:
This is looking the opposite direction after they both ran past me. Paddy is long gone and Jack has gone down a gully to the left of the moose. I'm back on the path yelling at Moose, and disconcerted because (s)he looks very put-out, with ears flat and hair on the neck and shoulders up. Finally Moose went straight ahead, through a small creek gully and up the opposite side.
I called the dogs. Jack came back right away but it took Paddy quite a while, he had travelled quite bit further. We continued our walk and came back the same trail 45 minutes later. Moose was still somewhere up the other bank because the dogs started barking and heading up. They stopped as soon as I called.