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Moose on the Loose in Calgary

by albertacowpoke | June 25, 2009 at 08:20 pm

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A moose was on the loose in the southwest of Alberta's largest city, Calgary.

Police were called around 6:30 am to take care of a moose that was running around backyards in the Haysboro neighborhood. The moose was enjoying his new environment for almost an hour until wildlife officials arrived.

He was shot with tranquilizers but was spooked by a siren and jumped a fence and picnic table before the two year old male lay down.

It took 10 officers to sling the animal and eventually get him on the back of a truck.

The moose then took a journey into the wilderness near Bragg Creek, west of Calgary.

A moose was on the loose in southwest Calgary Thursday morning.

The 181-kilogram animal was reported to police at about 6:30 a.m., bounding through yards in the community of Haysboro for more than an hour before wildlife officials arrived and shot it with a tranquillizer dart.

But a siren spooked the moose and he jumped a fence and a picnic table before officials could get more tranquillizer darts into him.

Eventually the two-year-old male lay down in a family's backyard.

It took about 10 officers to attach the moose to a sling, and get it into the back of a truck for a ride out of town.