My visitor this morning..

[Busy B]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but since this gal seems to like my apple trees while she's begging for food. Hubby seemed to think, she's carrying a baby. We are all waiting for it to warm up and melt and the trees to bud..her more so than us if she's carrying..

[barracudda]

Is that a Moose?

[Terri]

That be a "cow" moose LOL Too cool Busy

[GregBickal]

Reminds me of deer sausage :-?

[Busy B]

Yup Cudda that be a moose:-P

There's a snow bank off the deck after it's been shoveled. She stands on it and trys to reach the bird food...

Did I mention I hate moose:-| I had my apple trees caged and she knocked over the wire and nibbled them back again..guess I don't have to worry about pruning them..

[Jackie Ramo]

Looks like you and the mosse are on pretty good terms Busy!!! Great shots. Every moose I've ever seen was way back in the woods and if we went closer they moved away...

[barracudda]

B I think that would be awesome, but he is not eating my plants, so thats easy to say.

[Busy B]

I'm always yelling at the kids and hubby to quit feeding the dang thing..but last year we had one that looked soooo bad even I felt sorry for it..This year, not so deep snow and not so cold..still they come around for tasties...

[Tammygirl815]

Wow Bee that is just to cool :razz: I would love to see one up close and personal :-P I always thought they were a bit on the dangerous side, no? But they are too cool!

[Busy B]

They can be ...I've been charged before and didn't like it! Mostly when you mess with their food, like me trying to scare them out of the chicken coop.

In the spring, they can be pretty fiesty and when they have calves...you really don't mess with them then.

[GregBickal]

A moose eating my plants would quickly become "moose sausage" :unsure: tastes like chicken %(

[Nancy N]

B, Cut it out! That's your pet and you have it totally trained! Secrets out... %( Have you trained it to stay out of the pond? ;-)
Greg, Have you ever had it? Something tells me it really does'nt taste like chicken.. :unsure:

[GregBickal]

I eat deer sausage all the time (we live pretty close to the major highways and roadkill is always in abundance :-? ). It doesnt taste like chicken, but I definetly prefer Deer Chops to a ribeye steak. Send me some moose, and I'll cook it up with some fava beans (insert hanabal lector tounge noise here) :unsure:

[Nancy N]

Yeah, I've heard of the sausage...I was raised on venissen and never cared for it but then again I knew it was deer, never felt bad about eating a cow. :roll: Kinda like not eating the raised chickens either... :unsure:

[Jackie Ramo]

Moose and venison yum!! I talked to my parents on the phone and they said the front lawn was covered in deer tracks.

[Dayleen]

She is too cute !!! We had this huge Moose strolling down the back alley of a house we used to live in. Both dogs just sat on the deck with weird looks on their faces like "what the heck is that?"

Very strange to see downtown in a city.

[Busy B]

I've seen a bull moose trying to cross 5 lanes of traffic in Anchorage...we have them in town also..worse part is when the snow is deep and they hang out on the roads...lose alot that way..

[marla]

That could be dangerous, my daughter's husband and father-in-law took a motorcycle trip to Alaska and the father-in-law hit a moose, totaled the motorcycle, if I remember right all he did was break his leg, the moose ran off.

[Busy B]

It is dangerous...had a freind that hit a caribou on his cycle..had to put the caribou down...:sad:

The only good that comes out of it, is there's a call list for people to come and pick up the meat. The senior centers' get half...

And the insureance company's get alot!

[Jackie Ramo]

Deer can do enough damage to a car if hit, and they often run off, whether they survive or not I don't know but my b-i-l has hit 2 in 3 years. He sold that house and moved :-?

[Busy B]

Deer a funny to watch...they bound thru the fields and into the road...not so funny when one hits your car..

Moose are slow moving, unless a bear is chasing them, and will stop in the middle of the road going to their destination. If they do make it accross, sometimes it's the calves that try to catch up with Mom..does takes it's toll.

[Terri]

Busy I showed Ian your Moose pics eariler, he was impressed !rofl

When I was about 8yrs old we lived in a small town called Atikokan(here in ON). My mom at the time owned a Feista(little red car about the size of a cardboard box). We were on our way back home from Thunder Bay(visit with my Aunt) and it was getting late, sun was almost set. I was in the front seat with my mom and my brother was asleep in the backseat... suddenly my mom swears real loud(she's not one to use swear words) and slams on the breaks! The little car skidded to a stop - right underneth the belly of a BULL MOOSE (shoulda seen his rack!) - his belly was pushed up against the windshield, I could see the texture of the hair... I was speechless and wide-eyed(I was 8 and this was as close to a moose as I'd ever been!)... My mom's honking the horn and screaming at this animal to get off her car... LOL he'd actually turned his head to look at her and lets out this woofing breath sound! She finally get's herself together and puts the car in reverse... the moose took his time leaving the road. She was shaking... I was still wide-eyed and my brother was still sleeping! I guess we were pretty lucky, even though we didn't hit him he still could have done damage to the car with us in it.

It wasn't unusual for some school days to be cancelled during mating season, the bulls would wander into town and hang out for hours. Same thing with the black bears on garbage day...

[Wulff]

I think its great that moose come to visit your pond and Im envious.
My mother in law gets put out whenever the deer manage to get into our backyard and feast on her herb garden but ive yet to see them at pond.

I'd gladly suffer my MiLs wrath for leaving the gate open in exchange for actually catching sight of the deer when they visit ;)

[Busy B]

!wow! Don't know how I missed your story Terri. That would of wide eyed me too!!

You are very lucky! That could of come out an enterely different ending.

When I first moved here and we had to get a car, I was looking at all the small, economical ones. Hubby insisted we get a truck and one with a big front end...lots of space between the front of the truck and the windshield...I didn't know why but after seeing some cars that had hit a moose...I figured it out pretty quick. As long legs as the moose have, the compact cars are just too scary.

School closed for mating season:lol: Now that's a good one!

Wulff I'm trying to figure out a way to fence in my pond and still keep it to where it's viewable...the first year I had it, 2 calves decided they were going to go swimming...grrrrrr.....I was lucky and only had to patch it in a couple spots. Last year one decided just to put it's front hooves in...again it's up high so haven't lost alot of water but get to patch again in the spring.

[Wulff]

didnt think of that.

What about a Cedar Fence. Not much different from whats used to contain livestock? Failing that although Im not sure it would work, is borrow a page from marina's. Using Cedar post as anchors with 2inch hemp rope running between them. Two or three such lines might be enough to discourage them and it should't obstruct the view at all and may even add to it.

I had to devise a similiar barrier for a section of my deck that over looks the pond for my kids. In one of my pond pics you can make it out.

[Busy B]

I've kinda got an idea for a fence but I'd probably be better off fencing the whole property :grin:

When they get stuck somewhere , where they no longer want to be they are like a bull in a china closet...We have one that keeps knocking down the hog wire to get to the chicken food in the chicken coop. It's a small shed with a sloped roof and fenced in area with chicken wire. It got in there one day and decided that it wasn't going to turn around and leave the same way, so it pushed the heavy duty staples out of then pen and left that way. They can also jump so garden fences have to be at least 8 ft tall.

[Jackie Ramo]

Now a moose jumping is something I like to see :lol:

[Busy B]

What's worse is the bulls :smile: there's normally pics in the Anchorage paper of bulls walking down the street with swingset swings hanging off their antlers :grin:

Had a cow couple years get tangled up in our old one...she did a cart wheel almost...funny but sad at the same time...but I did laugh more :eek:

[Jackie Ramo]

Well thankfully I only have to deal with raccoons skunks and other small critters. Well the local teenagers but everyone has those hanging around

[luke frisbee]

Moose with calf...like in veal?

[Busy B]

Probably so...have wanted to shoot a couple of them but haven't. I have been charged and it's not fun. Good old Lab got between me and her. I've had them stomp my dog, eat my apple trees, scare the kids.

I like to look at them, but from a distance.

[Jackie Ramo]

When does season open. I haven't tried moose that I can think of off hand.... lots of venison which I like.

[Busy B]

This coming fall...soon the mom's will be here with new born calves...now that's cute...but they are just hiding from the bears.