OUR GAGGLE OF MOOSE STORIES LAST SATURDAY WAS NOT THE END of the springtime frolics of the long-snouted creatures that roam the northern territories. Moose play abounds still.
* After two days of tracking and chasing, a wayward moose that had been wandering around the city of New Britain, Connecticut, (pop. 70,000) was finally caught. A posse from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and New Britain police tracked the animal down Thursday and shot it with a tranquilizer dart.
The young female moose that weighs about 400 lbs. was taken to an unpopulated area and released. The Associated Press released this video report:
* In Woburn, Massachusetts a female moose has been bounding through the neighborhoods since she was first spotted Thursday near a Target store. It was seen again this morning around 10 am as it was running through a residential area and the police and animal control officers chased after it for a while until it disappeared into some nearby woods. The moose is still missing, but they are hoping that it has gone back into the forest.
WCVB-TV
WCVB-TV has the video of this one HERE including some interesting views of rotund policemen doing their best at running.
* In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a family of three moose have taken up residence on the golf course of the Saskatoon Golf and Country Club. The Star Phoenix reports:
The moose is just one of three that have been hanging around the golf course of late. Roger Hogle, executive director of the private club, reports sightings of an adult bull and cow and what he thinks is a two-year-old female calf. To his knowledge, these are the first moose anyone has seen on the course since it opened in 1907.
On the golf course, at least, there has been peaceful coexistence. Hogle says the moose have not bothered anyone and seem undisturbed by golfers. Neither have the moose done any damage to the course. The Rules of Golf, incidentally, provide for relief if a ball rolls into a hoof print or lands in a pile of moose droppings, except in a bunker or sand trap, in which case the rule is to play it as it lays and don’t forget a generous tip for the kid who cleans your clubs.
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