After going through the ordeal of being surrounded by spectators, shot with a tranquilizer dart, and transported in the bucket of a front-end loader, you’d think a moose would be wary of anything human.
That hasn’t been the case with a moose recently sedated and shipped out of the town.
A week after being carried north of town with a sheet over its head, the moose that attracted so much attention near the mill car wash before New Year’s has now moved into a small horse pasture on River Road in Alberton.
“I phoned the MNR and described him and they said, ‘Yes, that’s the one,’” noted Alberton Reeve John Milling, who woke up one morning to find the moose had broken into his pasture.
The moose has been in the pasture, following the three horses there, for about 10 days, giving Milling and his family the chance to spend plenty of time watching and videotaping the animal.
“He’s doing fine, he’s kind of cute,” noted Milling. “He figures he has a bunch of buddies with the horses but they think he’s some sort of foreign object.”
The young moose appears to have a penchant for enclosures. When it was found in Fort Frances, it had wandered into a fenced yard on Abitibi-Consolidated property and failed to find a way out before morning traffic took over the surrounding streets.
This time, the moose again has managed to get trapped in an enclosure, albeit in a more peaceful setting.
“He’s inside my horse pasture. He was in for a while, then he managed to jump through the fence, and now he seems to be back in again,” said Milling.
“He breaks all my fences, though, and it’s getting kind of expensive,” he added.
The Millings, by the way, have named the wayward moose “Morris.”
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