Me and my truck

[Wombat of Doom]

Me and my truck lost a race to a moose who came by. It looked down into my cab and I swear the thing grinned and took off. I decided not to floor it on the twisty dirt road, (and let the wookie win so to speak) but the thing looked back as it headed off into the woods in the mist and I swear the thing turned again and grinned. Then it took off into the misty woods looking like the king of an epoch past as megafauna in a primordial forest. It was pretty darn cool.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Critters are fun to watch that's for sure.

The other morning I had a coyote pace my truck....
I rolled down my window and said to him : "How ya doin' ? "
He mentioned something about roadrunners and a ACME catalog ....

Well...maybe not...he just looked up at me...gave me a grin and trotted off into the woodline.
Perhaps he was looking for your moose....
Andy

 

[Xaevian]

Had something like that happen to me and my friend last year. Dang moose bull wouldn't get out of the road. Kept trotting ahead of us, looking back and dripping drool on our direction.

 

[nwslopoke]

Critters are fun to watch that's for sure.

The other morning I had a coyote pace my truck....
I rolled down my window and said to him : "How ya doin' ? "
He mentioned something about roadrunners and a ACME catalog ....

Well...maybe not...he just looked up at me...gave me a grin and trotted off into the woodline.
Perhaps he was looking for your moose....
Andy

 

[The Heretic]

Almost won a race with a nice 6 point buck near the base of the mountain some years back. He jumped out of the brush, I slammed on the brakes and he put the pedal to the metal. It was a close call - I could hear his hoofs clatter on the road.

Lots of deer incidents on the roads around here - SIL hit a yearling at the base of the mountain and killed it, caused small damage to his car. I've been lucky so far - only hitting a bobcat about ten years ago when it streaked out of an orchard at dusk but wasn't fast enough to avoid my car breaking its back. I had to put it out of its misery.

Deer are bad enough (had a friend and his co-rider hit deer that put him in the hospital after a motorcycle collision) - moose cause a lot of damage/injuries, even deaths when colliding with vehicles.

 

[Provincial]

In Alaska, moose are responsible for many deaths in car accidents. The reason is that a moose is tall enough that the hood of the car goes under the belly, resulting in the windshield being the first point of impact and sending it into the passenger compartment, followed by the bulk of the moose.

 

[The Heretic]

In Alaska, moose are responsible for many deaths in car accidents. The reason is that a moose is tall enough that the hood of the car goes under the belly, resulting in the windshield being the first point of impact and sending it into the passenger compartment, followed by the bulk of the moose.

That and they stomp on dogs (and often their owners as the owners try to protect their dogs) because they don't know the difference between dogs and wolves, plus sometimes the dogs try to chase the moose. Especially true of a cow moose with calves.

The ironic thing is that many people have the dogs along with them hiking/jogging/etc., to protect them from bears, and instead they get stomped by a moose. Almost every year there is a sled race some sled team gets stomped by a moose.

I worked in Alaska (Ketchikan, Anchorage, Fairbanks) and MT, off and on for several years, and never saw a single bear in the wild - but I saw plenty of moose - once close enough that the moose stuck its snout in the window of the car I was driving - smelly thing and flies and mosquitoes all around it.

 

[Wombat of Doom]

They certainly have a stench.

 

[Xaevian]

They certainly have a stench.

Well, they roll in their own piss so, yeah.