Just imagine that you are this guy who owns a really cool ranch in Colorado. You’ve come out to visit for the weekend and are enjoying a beautiful spring morning outside on the deck with your dogs. As you brush these beautiful white dogs, who on this day have decided to stay close by and not run away like they always do, you hear some noise coming from around the corner of the garage. Before your eyes appears a large bull moose. Your beautiful white dogs, who are not always the most intelligent animals, decide that now is the time to show the world that they are in charge. The take off with their powerful barks and begin to chase this enormous bull moose. Did we mention his enormous racks that could squash a small child? Before you even get a chance to put down your cup of coffee, the dogs are off, chasing the moose down the driveway. You watch in amazement until the moose stops, turns around, and decides that he no longer wants to play this game. Now the beautiful white dogs are stumped on what to do next. They figure it out pretty quickly as they are charged by the moose. Next thing you know, the dogs are hightailing it back up your driveway, headed right towards you and the door. The moose is not far behind. As he approaches the front door, he stops and gives one final head butt in the direction of your beautiful white dogs. Then, with the air of victory, he casually turns around and heads back down the driveway. With a courtesy look left and then look right, he crosses the road and heads toward the river.
And with that you think to yourself, wow, this ranch life is pretty exciting!
As far as we know, the moose carried on with his day, possibly with a slight spring in his step. The dogs have not run off in the past two days and seem to be quite content to just bark at coyotes from the safety of the deck.