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04-29-2009, 11:02 AM
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Just keep breathing!
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
Location: East Texas
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I have a visitor at work today!
It's always so nice when people visit you at work, especially when it's a five am desk shift in the dorms on finals week! Eugh! Anyway - Just a quick picture!
Have a good day!  
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04-29-2009, 11:03 AM
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Workin' It
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Wherever I go, there I am...
Posts: 7,841
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Oh my!
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04-29-2009, 11:06 AM
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NEVER GIVE UP
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: OHIO
Posts: 3,450
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How cool~LOL
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04-29-2009, 11:08 AM
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Biker Chick!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Northern Vermont
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Height: 5' 5"
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WOW!!! how close were you?? I hope a safe distance, we're told around here that moose can either charge because they're in rutting season or they can get a brain disease that make them unpredictable. But very kewl to get such a great pic!
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04-29-2009, 11:13 AM
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Just keep breathing!
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
Location: East Texas
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Moose are on campus residential campus I'd say nearly every other day it seems. They usually hang out in the flower beds close to the buildings - and if they're blocking door ways we have to call University Police to have them come herd the moose away. Other than that, it's all very tame and mild. We're told if their ears are back to keep a distance, but they're *usually* very very docile - and "city moose" aren't scared of much. You can honk your car horn at them, they just look up and go back to eating trees without batting an eyelash. Kind of like skinny, tall, lazy cows...
*However there is a youtube video of an older man being trampled to death near our library a few years ago, that professors always make us watch for extra credit as a teaching tool - apparently some drunk kids had been throwing snowballs at it a few hours earlier and it was pretty ticked off and took it out on the wrong person. Very, very sad.*
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04-29-2009, 11:17 AM
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On a journey
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Northern California
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that's awesome! We just have very angry squirrels around here. 
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04-29-2009, 11:48 AM
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Diane
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Colorado
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How funny! One of the extras that go with living in Alaska! Cool!
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04-29-2009, 12:23 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,034
Height: 5'3"
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Very cute. It looks like a young moose to me because it doesn't look fully grown. Probably from last spring's births. I wonder where the mom is?
P.S. Rutting season is in the fall....October...November-ish.
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04-29-2009, 02:40 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Bat Country
Posts: 6,915
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That's AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!
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04-29-2009, 04:08 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Amsterdam
Posts: 759
Height: 5'6"
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That's just too cool for words. Quite a difference from the bunnies in the little field behind our office (although I love to sit and watch them on my breaks) 
Last edited by dutchgirl; 04-29-2009 at 04:08 PM.
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04-30-2009, 12:00 AM
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Booty-Tron
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
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i grew up in New Jersey, so that picture blows my mind. we had coyotes (in the suburbs!), but moose are a different story altogether.
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04-30-2009, 12:12 AM
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Fairfax, VA
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Oh, that is so cool! And I was impressed by the huge buck I almost hit on campus two years ago...a moose! That's something else.
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04-30-2009, 01:24 AM
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happy in her own world
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: oregon
Posts: 1,348
S/C/G: 260/260/130
Height: 5'2"
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i must be a city girl- i didn't even know what that thing was at first. lol.
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04-30-2009, 04:30 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: East Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lizziep
i must be a city girl- i didn't even know what that thing was at first. lol.
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City boy here too! At first glance I thought it was a mule! LOL!
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04-30-2009, 12:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,034
Height: 5'3"
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I am a city girl here too. I grew up in Toronto in the 60s and 70s. I saw my first moose when I was a teenager in Toronto at the Royal Ontario Museum. It was a full adult male and stuffed and standing posed in a glass case.
My first thought was...the thing is HUGE!!!
I was glad it was stuffed. I would not want to face a live one close up. LOL.
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