Moose in Moncton
By Patrick Arseneau – I was walking the dog last night around 7pm along the marsh between Riverview and Moncton (I live in Riverview). Just as Iwas about to head back home, I see in the far distance what seemed to be way too big to be a dog. It was too far to tell and it could’ve been a horse. I walked back home to grab my camera and ventured back on the trail.
It didn’t take long to find out it wasn’t a horse. It was a young moose. Apparently it’s not unusual for mooses to wander in urban areas to escape mosquitoes this time of the year. Not sure how it managed to walk through the residential area and traffic to end up here but it seemed pretty content and happy to be there.
I learned from other people in the neighborhood that the moose had been there all afternoon and it didn’t seem to want to leave. There was a report about it on the radio this morning: “People be advised that if you encounter a moose please be careful, don’t get too close, and do NOT alert the animal or try to scare it.”
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