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Beautiful story! I'm printing it out for my 9-year-old adventure-loving son to
take to class.
Barbara Lyn--in rural Western New York where coyote's howling is the wildest
noise around.
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998, Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I went out to feed the horses this morning and found a bunch of fresh moose
>tracks. Well, that's pretty common in the winter here, but I was real
>cautious when I walked down to the road to get the paper. Came back in the
>house and forgot about seeing the tracks.
>
>A couple hours later I was getting ready to go into town to work out at the
>gym, and roused the 15 year old little Siberian husky to put her out on her
>rope (she's deaf and wanders) to go potty, forgetting to check for moose.
>A couple minutes later I heard a lot of yelps and commotion and opened the
>door to find a cow and calf moose standing over my poor old dog who was
>whining and lying there in the snow.
>
> I yelled and the moose started to move away, but the dog's rope was looped
>around the hind leg of one of the moose and it was dragging her along with
>them. I thought she was done for, when I saw that, but the moose got its
>leg loose after a couple of yards and moved away to stand on the bank
>behind the house, only 15 -20 feet away, where they stopped to look at me.
>By this time I was jumping up and down on the porch madly waving my gym bag
>and shouting at the moose. I couldn't safely get to my dog and they weren't
>moving. Finally after a lot more aerobics on my part and heaving a piece
>of firewood toward them they moved off into the woods.
>
>I picked up my poor old dog thinking I'd better head for the vet, and took
>her into the house. To my relief her tail started to wag and she wanted to
>get down on her feet and with some support was able to walk, miraculously
>there were no broken bones.
>
>I gave her some "Rescue Remedy" a Bach Flower homeopathic remedy that calms
>and some "Traumeel" homeopathic remedy for traumatic injuries. This stuff
>really works as I have used it after a bad fall off my horse, with the
>result I didn't hurt in my neck and shoulders at all after going over his
>head when he stumbled.
>
>Anyway, I stayed home for about an hour to observe her and she is stiff and
>sore but seems to be doing OK.
>
>When I went out to feed the horses their lunch before leaving, I saw that
>the Moose had been in the hay barn, which is only about 100 feet away from
>the porch. I should have looked! And I certainly WILL look around before I
>venture out next time. They had dragged a bale of hay off the stack;
>conveniently it was one I had set aside as it looked like it would be moldy
>or dusty. Maybe I'll leave it out for them.
>
>Moose hang around here each winter. The horses are not too scared of them,
>so long as they don't jump INTO their corral! so far this hasn't happened
>here, but other horse owners have had moose get into the pens, or tear up
>the electric fencing, one reason I have wooden rails, in addition to
>electric fence. In heavy snow years, moose can be a real hazard to people
>as well as dogs!
>
>Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the moose and the wolfies do roam.
>winding down to the shortest day. sun comes up at 10:40 am, goes down at
>2:40 pm
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>Jean Ernest
>Fairbanks, Alaska
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