A few days ago, a risky rescue took place in Park City, Utah, when a bull moose was trapped in a hammock in a family’s backyard.
Francesca Paglione has been living in Park City for quite some time, and she knows that seeing wild animals in your backyard is not uncommon.
She’s not scared of them, in fact, she enjoys their company when they happen to visit her family home every now and then.
“It’s so magical to have wildlife in your backyard,” she told KSLTV. “Like, once or twice a week,” she added. “This is kind of like their moose pad they like to hang out on.”
But a few days ago, when a bull moose visited her backyard, probably in an effort to impress a cow moose, things got more complicated.
The first one to notice was Koda, the family cat, who alerted her owners of something going on in the backyard.
When Paglione went to check what was going on, she saw the poor moose in distress, trying to get himself out of the hammock he had been trapped in.
The homeowner knew she had to help the wild animal one way or the other. She called the local authorities, but with the Department of Natural Resources being a couple of hours away, it was a pair of sheriff’s deputies that arrived at her house in hopes of rescuing the animal.
Within ten minutes of her call, the two deputies arrived at her front door.
“[The cow moose] definitely was around and could tell he was in despair,” Paglione recalled. “Once they walked down to him, and they felt like it was the safest time to try to cut him away, he kind of calmed down,” the woman added.
Indeed, with remarkable care and calmness, the two officers approached the wild animal and, with decisive and careful movements, with swift cuts, they managed to free the trapped animal.
Both the officers and Paglione were relieved to see the animal leaving into the forest free and safe.
Sure enough, the bull moose ran back to his cow moose girlfriend.
According to Paglione, the moose pair stayed around the family’s backyard for a couple of days, grazing, before disappearing into the forest.
If you, just like the woman in this story live in a place where moose can make an appearance, remember that, although they are generally not aggressive towards humans, they can be in certain cases.
If they are in distress, if they feel threatened by you or your dog, or if a moose mother feels you are too close to her calf, they can get aggressive.
In the above cases, make sure you don’t try to yell at them, throw things or threaten them. Keep calm and make sure they have an escape route.
Head over to the video below to see footage of the officers freeing the trapped moose.
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