# Moose in my yard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723 "2012-06-29T19:25:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/1 "2012-06-29T19:25:21Z")
Got a couple of brothers that pass through our yard. I think they are about 4 years old. The pics aren’t that great. I’ve got to remember to keep my real camera handy. I’ve seen them twice this year, and a couple of times last year. The doggie alarms really go nuts. [Photobucket](http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/enipla/Moose%20pics/) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/2 "2012-06-29T19:32:04Z")
I would like very much to see a real live moose! We are going to Colorado in a week, maybe I’ll get lucky. Nice back yard. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/3 "2012-06-29T19:43:14Z")
Man, you’re gonna need a bigger fence! Nice pics. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/4 "2012-06-29T20:01:53Z")
I get deer, foxes, coyotes and peacocks in our yard - but no MOOSE!! I WANT MOOSES!!! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/5 "2012-06-29T20:03:40Z")
It’s really fun. Those guys aren’t afraid of anything. And as gangly as they look, they are really graceful and it looks like they move in slow motion. We get black bear too. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/6 "2012-06-29T20:41:20Z")
I miss seeing them in our yard in Anchorage, although the shrubs sure took a beating. It was always a reminder of our encroachment into their traditional browsing turf. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/7 "2012-06-30T01:11:21Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > I get deer, foxes, coyotes and peacocks in our yard - but no MOOSE!! I WANT MOOSES!!! When I was a young man I used to like girls, I fondled their bodies and played with their curls, 'Til my girlfriend ran off with a salesman named Bruce, You’d never get treatment like that from a Moose! - ``` And it's Moose, Moose, I like a Moose! I've never had anything quite like a Moose, I've had many lovers, my life has been loose, But I've never had anything quite like a Moose! ``` [\](http://www.theweebsite.com/tempus/songs.html) \* ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/8 "2012-06-30T02:13:58Z")
Is your sister okay? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/9 "2012-06-30T02:14:06Z")
Good Lord. Please see your Physician, Minister or Psychiatrist as soon as possible. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/10 "2012-06-30T04:07:36Z")
We had one walk across our front yard a few years ago (N. Idaho). First one we’d ever seen, and from 30 feet away we were shocked-- those guys are huge! ---
**Author:** ![Dano83860](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Dano83860](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dano83860)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/11 "2012-06-30T04:45:57Z")
We had one come through last week. A young one from the antlers. It came back Satruday with an even younger one. So we are thing there is a cow out there that is running off last years calfs when she has another. We are also thinking there must be a bull somewhere. 😃 It’s likely we have five out here. Nice picture by the way. I haven’t gotten that close. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/12 "2012-06-30T07:09:42Z")
I saw a moose today also. Happy moosing~ ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/13 "2012-06-30T07:30:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I miss seeing them in our yard in Anchorage, although the shrubs sure took a beating. It was always a reminder of our encroachment into their traditional browsing turf. Ditto, I love how they just “owned” everything, and how 3 lanes of traffic would just patiently wait while one wandered its way across “C” street in the middle of Anchorage. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/14 "2012-06-30T11:04:27Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Got a couple of brothers that pass through our yard. Are they called Rutt and Tuke? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/15 "2012-06-30T12:21:21Z")
No. Chocolate and Hair. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/16 "2012-06-30T12:29:44Z")
Ok, sign of my age and (clearly) some form of insanity, but I immediately thought of some early Eddie Murphy character doing a poem entitled “Moose in my yard”. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/17 "2012-06-30T14:35:21Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > We had one walk across our front yard a few years ago (N. Idaho). First one we’d ever seen, and from 30 feet away we were shocked-- **those guys are huge!** About 6 years ago, the doggie alarm woke me up at about 5 AM. DEFCON 1. So I get up and take a look out the windows. I was a bit groggy and it was not quite light out. I said to my Wife - “Honey, there’s a horse in our driveway”. “And he seems to like my car a lot”. 'Twas a moose licking the road salt off my Pathfinder. Made quite a mess of it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/18 "2012-06-30T14:59:01Z")
Ok, when I read “seems to like my car a lot” I wasn’t thinking ‘as a salt lick’… ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/19 "2012-06-30T15:05:58Z")
Forget the moose, look at that scenery! The background in that last shot looks like a painting. Ok, the moose is cool, too. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723/20 "2012-07-01T06:52:22Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Forget the moose, look at that scenery! The background in that last shot looks like a painting. > > Ok, the moose is cool, too. 🙂 It is pretty up here. This is the view from my deck in [winter](http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/enipla/01060002-1.jpg) It’s just a little bit of a different angle that I took the pics of the moose. Our property backs up to National Forest. This is the jeep trail that we walk the dogs on. [It’s a nice walk](http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/enipla/IMG_0598-1.jpg) We love living at altitude, but we [pay for it](http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r148/enipla/IMG_0310-1.jpg) 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moose-in-my-yard/626723.md?page=2)