HERE'S A GREAT MOOSE STORY---When this little guy was young; he lost his mother too soon.
So the Fish and Game people 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; he lived with their cows in the pasture and barn. Last spring he was a year old, weaned from the bottle and it was time to turn him back into the wild.
They opened the gate of the pasture and off he went. He stayed gone all summer; then this fall he shows up again, back with the cows. He really thinks he is a cow! They are all happy to see him as he is pretty friendly.
He likes special treats, too. He loves honey buns and will eat them right out of your mouth.
Wendall and Debbie live up in the mountains so when it came time to bring the cows down, they left him alone up there. Well, the moose got lonely all by himself so he headed down to find another heard of cows to hang with.
About a week later the neighbor who owned the cows called to ask Wendall to please come get his moose. So he headed out with a honey bun, bucket of grain and the horse trailer, got him into the trailer, and brought him back home again.
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 again and take off, but, for now at least, he is happy where he is.
