My neighbors down the road a couple miles found this bull moose tangled up in their neighbor's hammock yesterday. Don't leave your hammocks out for the winter in moose country!



They called the State Division of Wildlife, but their nearest officer was hours away, so they gave them some ideas for how to safely cut it loose. The first cut worked--but now the moose was still stuck, and now had a 6-foot radius in which to move. He charged everyone in sight, and the DOW advised to wait until morning to try again. You can see the circle he trampled overnight in the pictures.



Fortunately, overnight the moose wrapped most of the hammock around the tree, and couldn't charge. At 4:30AM the resident drove his tractor down to the moose and parked it. He waited a couple hours for the moose to stop panicking, then used the tractor bucket as a shield while cutting the rest of the hammock with a hatchet.

The video of the trapped moose and the rescue operation is on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9vw6nrh5_w

No moose or humans were hurt!
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
DANBOB