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"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
02/23/2019 at 07:34 • Filed to: None

There’s a moose in the city.

Edit: Not sure this’ll work.. but here’s a video.

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DISCUSSION (24)

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 07:55

We recently had a bear running loose through the city where I live. Seems to be a normal thing here since no one was really freaking out, just ignored it and continued on with their day.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
02/23/2019 at 07:59

We don’t really freak out about a moose in town here either.. a bear though.. that’d raise an eyebrow

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 08:03

It was pretty weird hearing reports of a bear in the city and no one freaked, they just said stay away from the bear, don’t bother it, don’t try to scare it off.

When I lived in a small village someone hit a bear on the main road and the County sheriff sent out flyers saying “Bear warning, before going outside crash pots and pans, make some noise, try to scare the bears away, be cautious”

I basically never went out without my gun on me for several months because of how close my house was too woods and a water source for the bear.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
02/23/2019 at 08:08

We’ve got wolves not that far from the town I live in, I guess it’s the same thing.. They’re more scared of us than we’re of them.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 08:24

We get Coyotes here, wolves are incredibly rare wild in the US, Coyotes are typically afraid, but will destroy everything you love if you have a garden, or chickens.

Svend > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 08:46

Bloody hell mate, long time no see.

I hope you've been keeping well and your all good.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Svend
02/23/2019 at 08:50

Hi mate :) Yeah, I’m good, been busy with work and all.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
02/23/2019 at 08:55

Wolves are quite rare in Norway as well.. I think we’ve got about 70 of them, and I’d say about a third of them live in my area. Coyotes though we don’t have.. are they prevalent in the US as a whole or are they more a southern thing?

Cé hé sin > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 08:58

Strictly speaking, it’s an elk. It’s only the Americans who call them moose, which comes from a Native American word .

fhrblig > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 09:00

I’ve never seen a moose here but I’ve seen mountain lions, bobcats, rams, buffalo, and saw my first bear a couple years ago. It was crossing a rural highway to get to a stream. It was kind of funny because it’s whole demeanor was like “don’t mind me, just getting a drink”.

Deer, though.... so many deer. It’s not a whole lot of fun to be driving at 1 AM and seeing them all over the sides of the road. Or in the road.

Also, good to see you again!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cé hé sin
02/23/2019 at 09:02

I know, but if I’d said Elk there’d been tons of ‘Muricans telling me it’ a moose :)

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > fhrblig
02/23/2019 at 09:06

We’ve got plenty of deer as well, but they tend to hang out along the highways... We do have badgers in the city though.. mean little bastards.

Good to be back mate, feels good when people remember me.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 09:13

They’re pretty wide spread across the country, I live in the north almost at the Canadian border and we have them here, I know they’re in the deserts out west as well as down south. They are such a problem that a gun shop near where I lived was giving out giftcards for anyone who brought Coyote carcasses to them.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
02/23/2019 at 09:33

Huh.. Kinda cool to hear about stuff like that. We don’t really have any problem with animals of any sort here. Well, we do have hares though.. bloody nuisance they are, running all over the road in wintertime.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 09:42

Yeah, we have a few problem animals, there is one that is honestly terrifying, its called a fisher cat. Screams like a banshee, kills whatever small animals are in its way. Even will eat deer, Lynx, whatever it can take down, mostly smaller animals though. Porcupines, Rabbits, stuff like that.

And even cooler, I own a wild dog as a pet, he’s an “American Dingo” almost exactly like a Coyote, except for whatever reason they’re allowed to be pets.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
02/23/2019 at 09:49

Fisher Cat? The way you describe it it sounds like some kind of wolverine like creature.. Like a giant marten or mink or something.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 10:04

I think they are in the same family of animals, I just remember being younger and hearing them scream in the woods behind my house, or stealing people’s cats and small dogs if they were left out alone.

Kinja'd!!!

Svend > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 10:09

Oooow, sorry about that. Needs must though. :)

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Svend
02/23/2019 at 10:15

No need to be sorry mate :) I love my job. And I must admit, it’s nice to be back here as well...Why on earth you guys remember me I can’t quite fathom though, but I ain’t complaining

facw > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 10:41

Meanwhile in Canada: 'If it gets me, it gets me': the town where residents live alongside polar bears

facw > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
02/23/2019 at 10:45

There are coyotes at my parents, sometimes walking within 20ft of their house. I’m very worried about their dogs (15 and 25 lbs, bigger than a well- fed coyote will generally mess with, but small enough that a hungry coyote wouldn’t have much problem helping their self ).

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > facw
02/23/2019 at 10:58

Yeah, I would get worried about them in my yard too, but my 100lb dog dwarfs them and loved chasing them out of the yard, and I would always be around with a gun if one of them tried going after my dog.

They can be a giant nuisance most of the time.

Svend > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/23/2019 at 11:30

Cool. Nice to have you back mate.

Things round here slowed a little and still do from time to time.

So you haven’t missed much. Lol.

Your a good bloke, that’s why.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
02/24/2019 at 06:39

no moose here, just roos