Tree hugger meets bull moose

[sixdogs]

OMG is this guy clueless. He expects the bull moose to be sensitive to his commands and rationalize with him. Check the eyes at 1:14 and add that to the ears down danger.

It's a fake charge but you never know, especially during the rut. Nothing beats baptism by fire.

 

[Hay Dude]

I got about 100 feet from one at Glacier, Montana about a month ago and I would NEVER get close to one of them.

 

[oosik]

Quite a few tourist are seriously injured or killed, by moose, in AK each year. I wonder - would this idiot treat a brown bear in the same manner.

 

[CalG]

OMG is this guy clueless. He expects the bull moose to be sensitive to his commands and rationalize with him. Check the eyes at 1:14 and add that to the ears down danger.

It's a fake charge but you never know, especially during the rut. Nothing beats baptism by fire.

Well, this didn't go right either

 

[grsthegreat]

What a jerk wad. I get moose in my back yard, and even my dogs are smart enough not to get close to them.

 

[oosik]

One year we had over three feet of standing snow. One young moose came over from Turnbul NWR. Boy-Oh-Boy was he ever pissed.

He jumped up/down - pawed at the snow - made hissing sounds - ears flat down against the side of his head. We all stayed in the house until he was LONG gone and left our yard.

 

[sd455dan]

OMG is this guy clueless. He expects the bull moose to be sensitive to his commands and rationalize with him. Check the eyes at 1:14 and add that to the ears down danger.

It's a fake charge but you never know, especially during the rut. Nothing beats baptism by fire.

Idiot. What does he think he is a Bull moose whisperer. Tax payer probably have to pay for his hospital stay if he survives.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Some people's children...

 

[CalG]

Did you KNOW?????

At one time, many years ago, MOOSE were considered as possible "WAR MOUNTS" ! There was considerable efforts made to "reign them in", but the moose was just too intractable to be relied on.
Imagine a Moose charging down on you in the moments after you had fired your musket.

A horse will plunge to it's death under the prodding of it's rider.
A mule will NOT!

 

[CalG]

What a jerk wad. I get moose in my back yard, and even my dogs are smart enough not to get close to them.

First years we were in this place, an adult bull made it's way through our side yard. After it left, I went out to inspect the tracks in the snow. It was a full six feet between tracks. A moose places a front and rear foot in the same spot while walking. The track indicated that when the bull encountered trees to tight to pass it's rack, it jogged over in perfect 90 degree movements, and then returned on it's original path. I can't say if this is common, just what the track showed.

I've got some other "moose tails" but they involve motor vehicles and carnage I would rather not remember.

 

[CalG]

They are cute when they are little

 

[grsthegreat]

heres one drinking out of my fountain

 

[grsthegreat]

heres a videoi i made a few years ago. thats a 5' tall fence. Man thats huge. i had the brains to stay inside my truck.


https://youtu.be/Vz8vBdYvZlg

 

[CalG]

And if you think a moose can clear fences, start to wonder about the American Buffalo. I have witnessed "feats" that you would not believe.

Go to a stock pen that caters to buffalo, check the fence height!

 

[sixdogs]

Did you KNOW?????

At one time, many years ago, MOOSE were considered as possible "WAR MOUNTS" ! There was considerable efforts made to "reign them in", but the moose was just too intractable to be relied on.
Imagine a Moose charging down on you in the moments after you had fired your musket.

A horse will plunge to it's death under the prodding of it's rider.
A mule will NOT!

There are lots of Maine photos around of people that taught moose to pull a sled of logs out of the woods. I've seen one picture of a guy riding a moose that was pulling a sleigh.

I looked on the net and here's a few. The last photo looks new and I'd guess that last guy is tough as they come.

 

[5030]

Moose and Elk are just fine in the deep freeze. Bear as well.

 

[garry1p]

When I lived in Oklahoma it seemed like someone was seriously hurt every year getting to close to a buffalo.

A lot of people think buffalo's are just big lazy hairy cows waiting to be photographed or petted.

 

[LHF2019]

I helped one of my customers that I did hay for with vaccinating buffalo. You NEVER went in the pen with them and a rifle was handy. It was interesting. There was this 4"x4" window in the gate of the runway and they would run down the chute and constantly try to go through that hole. Young ones especially. The whole chute would shake.

 

[bdhsfz6]

In Yellowstone in 2008, I saw a man from India try to pet a Bison while his wife took a picture. We yelled at him to stop, but he spoke no English and kept approaching the animal. He would probably be dead now if my FIL hadn't tackled him!

It's amazing how many people have no respect for wildlife!

 

[sixdogs]

That first video gets funnier every time I see it. The stare at 1:14 is something you don't ever want to see. If that bull felt like it that guy would have been pulling antler shards out of his you-know-what for the next few months.