Your friendly neighbourhood moose is back again, eh?
Okay, picture this: you're out for a stroll, maybe grabbing a latte in Kensington, and you look up. Not at the mountains, though on a clear day, that view never gets old. You're looking at a *moose*. Again. For real though, wildlife officers just had to relocate a mother moose and her calf from a northwest Calgary neighbourhood for the second time in as many years. Apparently, this particular mama moose has a real soft spot for our city suburbs, specifically the one she was removed from last year. They keep taking her out of the city, and she keeps finding her way back in, like she's trying to prove something. I guess she's heard about our underrated food scene and figures she'll just... graze her way through it.
### What's Up With Our Urban Wildlife?
It's genuinely wild, pardon the pun, how often this happens here. You'll see coyotes down by the Bow River pathways, deer munching on folks' prize-winning petunias, and even the occasional cougar spotting out near Canada Olympic Park. But a repeat offender moose? That's next-level.
* This isn't some backcountry trail; we're talking about a residential area, likely somewhere you can still smell the exhaust from Crowchild Trail. * Wildlife experts are doing their best to keep these animals safe and us Calgarians safe too, but clearly, some critters just prefer the amenities of city life. Who can blame 'em, right? Maybe she's just tired of the high cost of living in the mountains.
It speaks to how close we are to nature, even when we're in the middle of a booming city. You can be in your backyard in Silver Springs, enjoying a chinook-induced warm spell, and suddenly, you're sharing it with an actual moose. This is Calgary – we've seen the boom, we've seen the bust, and we showed up anyway, and apparently, so did our local wildlife. Just another day in the big city where the Rockies are your backdrop and a moose might be your new neighbour.
Cassidy Redcloud, MiTL Sports Desk, Calgary.
You know, the team on the Morning Wire dug into this last week — catch the whole convo at mornings.live.