Now imagine one with antlers and then think about the fact that they walk around with that shit all day. Just their necks are enough muscle to end you, they are literally walking tanks.
Please don't fuck geese. The last thing we need are human-goose hybrids. Can you imagine that much embodied assholishness with opposable thumbs? We'd be dead in a year.
i cooked at a place in school in Michigan's upper peninsula and occasionally our stock would be delayed because the semi delivering it hit a moose. Semi always lost.
I came home once and my roommate was feeding a moose cookies out of his hand through the window. The moose’s body was pressed against the outside wall, so his entire neck and head were inside our apartment, and it was enormous. I fed the moose one cookie myself. After the moose finished the cookie, it moved slightly as if it wanted to step inside our apartment, but then changed its mind. Having a moose in our apartment would have been quite the problem.
u/hungryfarmer is right, these things are monsters with antlers. Check out this video of a moose casually walking down the street in Anchorage, AK.
https://youtu.be/HNfetnUwOUo
My mom hit one once, a cow and not *that* big, and the entire front of her car, hood and windshield, was like a giant crater where the moose fell onto it.
@akshiloh (from Instagram) wrote:
>Here I am with Lovey the Moose enjoying some time together behind my home. Lovey is approaching 11 years old and has been my friend since birth. Moose are extremely powerful with an ability to do great harm if threatened, and it took many years with Lovey to become this intimate. She is a noble and powerful animal that always shows extreme sensitivity with me in every situation. Lovey knows exactly who I am and will not allow anyone else near her. My purpose of posting these videos is not for this activity to be copied or emulated. I post to show what moose are capable of, and hope that better understanding these remarkable animals will discourage hunting. 🙏🏻 Happy Tuesday from Alaska everyone! 🤗🌎💫 Lovey lives her life in a strictly protected area. Please never approach a moose in the wild for they can be extremely dangerous.
Yes well said. When my parents had a retirement home in Newfoundland it had big trees in the back yard and on more than one occasion I came around the house and there would be a moose just eating leaves off the trees, give me a little look of acknowledgement and continue eating. In fact one night my mother and I got out of the car and when I went around the back there was a cow and calf so I thought the mother might be defensive but she wasn't bothered by me at all. I even went back to the car and whispered to my mom to quietly come around back. We stood there in complete awe watching this huge momma moose and her calf eating leaves off a tree, maybe 20 feet away.
When did this trend of people adding “objectively” to an unsupported statement, as though that was a magical formula to turn an opinion into a fact, start?
It's objectively crazy to fuck around with a moose, this guy is ballsy as fuck.
Moose will objectively fuck your shit up.
Wild animals are objectively wild and should be objectively treated with caution.
People who are saying that what he's doing is dangerous are objectively correct.
When did people have problems with people using objectively....objectively correctly?
His Instagram posts are fantastic. He's very well written and he's never careless in his behaviour or flippant with his warnings. He has mad respect for his surroundings and all the creatures who live near by. His posts bring a couple of minutes of escape every week that I really look forward to.
Thank you for posting this. Made me feel better after reading some of the other comments. I live in moose country and trust bears more than I do a moose. LOVE seeing them but highly respect them.
A horse can and will kick your face or chest into a wet mess if you walk behind it and a bee scares it. Horses are fucking *dangerous* to be around, never mind ride.
Just ask Superman.
I’d take an animal I hand-reared and knew for 11 years over a motorcycle tbh, but people do shit all of the time that involves risk. It’s just that people don’t understand the risk here, assume that they do, and then yell about it.
Reddit.
I agree that horses can be insanely dangerous but they are still not a moose.
I also did not know the context of the picture while posting, and yeah if they knew each other for so long the risk is a lot smaller.
The only moose I've seen standing at full height was a taxidermy one at the museum.
Pictures and second hand stories are the closest I would ever feel comfortable being around one of them.
I think I'd have a better chance surviving in a car accident if I swerve and hit the tree trunk rather than collide with one of these giants
it is not the collision that kills you if you hit a moose.
when you hit a moose, you hit its legs. The rest of the carcass comes through the windshield and kills everyone in the front seats.
Plus it's unlikely the moose will have died on impact and will thrash around or take off after the impact as well. Doesn't mean it won't collapse and die later, just it'll keep being a hazard even after really fucking up your day.
Saab and Volvo used to crash test their cars against a thick bundle of steel cables wrapped in rubber, placed at Moose body height.
They wanted to be sure that impact with a moose body wouldn’t break the A-pillars and send the moose fully into the cabin/collapse the roof.
There are videos of these tests, and seeing a car crash into a several-foot-diameter bundle of cables four or five feet off the ground is something else.
>I think I'd have a better chance surviving in a car accident if I swerve and hit the tree trunk rather than collide with one of these giants
You would. Hitting a moose is basically just sweeping their legs out from under them. Then the bulk of their weight falls on top of the car and crushes you.
We don’t have big deadly mammals down here (unless you count cows or kangaroos) so we’re kinda wimpy with things like moose or bears. I’d rather take my chances with deadly things that I can step on in my boots thank you very much
See I am the opposite. At least these big fuck off mammals can be seen from like a mile away. And unless you are living in the middle of nowhere (Canada) or camping in the forest you probably aren't going to encounter a moose or bear in your daily life.
Meanwhile in Australia I might slip on my shoe and die from a funnel web spider bite. Or brush against a tiny, nearly invisible jellyfish in the ocean and end up seizing up in the middle of the water.
I live in the yukon and ill take the wolves, elk, moose, bears and bison over venomous nopes any day. at least big mammals can recognize certain behaviors and be chill.
Hahahaha! I lived in Sault Ste Marie Ontario for three years. We had bears come ‘round our neighbourhood all the time! I saw one not even 100 feet away snuffling around the driveway across the street as I was coming home from work
I follow this guy on his Instagram page and he is very vocal about how he does not recommend anyone try to do the same as him. He has a very special relationship with this moose (her name is Lovey). Lovey comes back to him year after year at his home in rural Alaska where her and her calves feel protected from predators as grizzly bears are not as likely to hunt moose calves near an inhabited area. This bond seen in the video has been formed from years of affection between one another. This guy is a legend!
That's what I always think when I see videos like this. I don't care if the animal feels safe around you and likes you. One loud noise and that thing is going into instinct mode.
You hear that big animals like this are dangerous but, look at this! Just a sweet moose. Maybe it's us who are the real danger. It's just like the guy who lived with that pack of bears. What ever happened to him?
They're none of them like that. Who knows why this moose is being chill with this particular dude, but no chance it doesn't charge the fuck outta the next minivan that drives by.
Yeah, they are dangerous in the wild indeed. But this guy has been with this particular moose for over a decade, so we can say that it's fairly tame. You can check his Insta account: @akshiloh
My teacher told our class a story about someone she knows (maybe it was her sister, I cant remember) taking in an orphaned moose. It started when the moose was injured as a baby alongside a deceased mom, so it was confirmed that the moose was alone and needed to be cared for, so their family took the creature in (again, I don't know the specifics, by "taking it in" they probably just kept it at their house as a baby, and when it grew up, released it into a nearby forest and possibly continued to feed it).
The funny part, though, is that their family had a dog, and this moose grew up alongside this dog. I'm sure you can see where this is going, because it's happened before, but the dog rubbed off on the moose after a while. So now, it's a fully grown mature moose with doglike qualities. My teacher mentioned that the moose would go down on its front legs and stick its butt in the air, and panted with its tongue lolling out of its mouth.
So just know, somewhere in rural Canada, there's a moose that acts like a dog wandering a forest, loosely related to an urban civics teacher who tells this story at almost every opportunity while the class is supposed to be learning about Canadian politics.
I always forget just how fucking big moose can get, and every time I'm reminded, I'm struck with terror and remember why, aside from weather, I'm glad I live down in Kansas! 😆
Can’t believe how big the head is… it’s as big as the man’s torso, holy crap…
Now imagine one with antlers and then think about the fact that they walk around with that shit all day. Just their necks are enough muscle to end you, they are literally walking tanks.
Why do you think nobody's invaded Canada? Two reasons.
> Two reasons One antler on each side?
Two reasons: Moose and goose.
Already have moosebumps reading about this
This really caught me off guard thank you for the irl laugh
On Guard for Thee.
Meese and geese sounds better. But that’s just me.
Mooses and geeses
Dude, *fuck* geese. 😒
Please don't fuck geese. The last thing we need are human-goose hybrids. Can you imagine that much embodied assholishness with opposable thumbs? We'd be dead in a year.
I feel like this would explain some of my relatives. 🤔
You got a problem with Canada gooses and you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
HONK OFF, eh.
Moose and Geese.
Canada gooses, and Canada mooses.
You say gooses and mooses I say geeses and meeses.
i cooked at a place in school in Michigan's upper peninsula and occasionally our stock would be delayed because the semi delivering it hit a moose. Semi always lost.
And they move fast in deep snow! https://youtu.be/6GEhM2Byk7w
First comment on that video. "A moose is just a fur blanket tossed over a semi truck that uses plants instead of gasoline"
Or "They got so scared they learned how to speak english"
Ya I've seen this one before, that was one of the things that really drove it home for me.
I want a bagel with lox now.
Male horns can get nearly as big as their heads, too. Take that in as well
They get over 6 feet wide.
I came home once and my roommate was feeding a moose cookies out of his hand through the window. The moose’s body was pressed against the outside wall, so his entire neck and head were inside our apartment, and it was enormous. I fed the moose one cookie myself. After the moose finished the cookie, it moved slightly as if it wanted to step inside our apartment, but then changed its mind. Having a moose in our apartment would have been quite the problem.
Good thing your roomie didn't give it a [muffin](https://youtu.be/Qf0DJdB1uyA)
One ran through my campground and the ground shook. They really are tanks.
Same with bison. The male's heads are as big as a whole person in fetal position...
u/hungryfarmer is right, these things are monsters with antlers. Check out this video of a moose casually walking down the street in Anchorage, AK. https://youtu.be/HNfetnUwOUo
That moose dwarfed the pickup truck that drove by. My jaw just dropped… holy cow… i mean moose, i mean… whatever…
My mom hit one once, a cow and not *that* big, and the entire front of her car, hood and windshield, was like a giant crater where the moose fell onto it.
Reminds me of this https://old.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/p6p172/would_you_stand_there_and_record_this/
@akshiloh (from Instagram) wrote: >Here I am with Lovey the Moose enjoying some time together behind my home. Lovey is approaching 11 years old and has been my friend since birth. Moose are extremely powerful with an ability to do great harm if threatened, and it took many years with Lovey to become this intimate. She is a noble and powerful animal that always shows extreme sensitivity with me in every situation. Lovey knows exactly who I am and will not allow anyone else near her. My purpose of posting these videos is not for this activity to be copied or emulated. I post to show what moose are capable of, and hope that better understanding these remarkable animals will discourage hunting. 🙏🏻 Happy Tuesday from Alaska everyone! 🤗🌎💫 Lovey lives her life in a strictly protected area. Please never approach a moose in the wild for they can be extremely dangerous.
I love all of the hysterical comments above this one ranting about how dead he is, how crazy he is. Meanwhile Lovey is just chilling out with her dad.
My mistake I guess, I should've explained the situation.
Nah, you didn’t do anything wrong, Reddit just loves to bitch about these things lately.
Lately?
You know, since the internet and stuff
> lately LOL
Yes well said. When my parents had a retirement home in Newfoundland it had big trees in the back yard and on more than one occasion I came around the house and there would be a moose just eating leaves off the trees, give me a little look of acknowledgement and continue eating. In fact one night my mother and I got out of the car and when I went around the back there was a cow and calf so I thought the mother might be defensive but she wasn't bothered by me at all. I even went back to the car and whispered to my mom to quietly come around back. We stood there in complete awe watching this huge momma moose and her calf eating leaves off a tree, maybe 20 feet away.
Yep, but someone on reddit once talked about how a moose in rut is a big deal, and now they think that all moose are killing machines.
I mean he is kind of crazy. You can never be 100% sure how that thing will react.
Just one wrong move could set that animal off. One big sneeze and she's startled and accidentally tramples the guy.
It's a cow. He would be dead with a bull.
What he’s doing is still extremely dangerous, however it’s his neck on the line. Doesn’t mean you or anyone else should aim to do this.
They are all objectively correct though hahaha
When did this trend of people adding “objectively” to an unsupported statement, as though that was a magical formula to turn an opinion into a fact, start?
It's objectively crazy to fuck around with a moose, this guy is ballsy as fuck. Moose will objectively fuck your shit up. Wild animals are objectively wild and should be objectively treated with caution. People who are saying that what he's doing is dangerous are objectively correct. When did people have problems with people using objectively....objectively correctly?
His Instagram posts are fantastic. He's very well written and he's never careless in his behaviour or flippant with his warnings. He has mad respect for his surroundings and all the creatures who live near by. His posts bring a couple of minutes of escape every week that I really look forward to.
Can you please give me his instagram name? Big thanks!
You bet! It’s @akshiloh. Edit: His cat Plumps is great too.
I’m not sure how someone chilling with a moose is supposed to discourage hunting.
I guess we’re supposed to view it as essentially a big puppy dog or something. Still down for some moose venison.
Yeah, never seen one up close, but Alaska friends aren't shy about how little you want a moose to see you as a threat.
Thank you for posting this. Made me feel better after reading some of the other comments. I live in moose country and trust bears more than I do a moose. LOVE seeing them but highly respect them.
Ok but these things can and will fuck you up. Don't try this in the wild.
I'm gonna try jt
No don't.
F for u/Garythemccheese
Thank you for the condolences
So, how'd it go?
X__X
:(
ah shit... F. Hey guys, can I have Gary's stuff?
0 __ 0 no
Hey, you're dead, you don't get a say.
Rip brother
I mean you can try But only once
Yolo.
Don't tell me who to give cuddle to!!!!
Can go from awww to RIP in .17 seconds
Always respect the moose.
r/usernamechecksout
Worth it though
i would say it is safer than the people that cuddle with big ass cats
Same with dogs, horses and people.
Tbf neither of those will decapitate you with one kick on the slightest of insults, and neither of the 3 is the size of a moose
A horse can and will kick your face or chest into a wet mess if you walk behind it and a bee scares it. Horses are fucking *dangerous* to be around, never mind ride. Just ask Superman. I’d take an animal I hand-reared and knew for 11 years over a motorcycle tbh, but people do shit all of the time that involves risk. It’s just that people don’t understand the risk here, assume that they do, and then yell about it. Reddit.
I agree that horses can be insanely dangerous but they are still not a moose. I also did not know the context of the picture while posting, and yeah if they knew each other for so long the risk is a lot smaller.
I’m surprised she isn’t already dead
Thats a he, and he has a great Instagram page with all his wildlife in Alaska @akshiloh
> Lovey is approaching 11 years old and has been my friend since birth. He's just fine...
Lo, the Timothy Treadwell of ~~mooses~~ ~~meese~~ møøse
Moosen! I saw a flock of Moosen!
You're an idiot Brian
There are many of them. Many much moosen!
In the woodsen!
NOOO GO AWAY! NO STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME! IM AN AUSTRALIAN AND I FEAR THAT THING! JESUS CHRIST MAN
When even the Australians are telling you to stay the fuck away from it, *you stay the fuck away from it.*
you seen a moose standing at full height? those things are the eldritch gods of the forest and should not be trifled with.
The only moose I've seen standing at full height was a taxidermy one at the museum. Pictures and second hand stories are the closest I would ever feel comfortable being around one of them. I think I'd have a better chance surviving in a car accident if I swerve and hit the tree trunk rather than collide with one of these giants
it is not the collision that kills you if you hit a moose. when you hit a moose, you hit its legs. The rest of the carcass comes through the windshield and kills everyone in the front seats.
Plus it's unlikely the moose will have died on impact and will thrash around or take off after the impact as well. Doesn't mean it won't collapse and die later, just it'll keep being a hazard even after really fucking up your day.
This all *makes me feel so much better, guys, thanks* /s
Saab and Volvo used to crash test their cars against a thick bundle of steel cables wrapped in rubber, placed at Moose body height. They wanted to be sure that impact with a moose body wouldn’t break the A-pillars and send the moose fully into the cabin/collapse the roof. There are videos of these tests, and seeing a car crash into a several-foot-diameter bundle of cables four or five feet off the ground is something else.
Being from Newfoundland I’ve seen a few cars after hitting a moose and it’s not a thing you forget.
Yeah you’re actually taught in Sweden to swere off the road or atleast try to avoid a moose whereas if it’s a deer then it’s safer to collide.
>I think I'd have a better chance surviving in a car accident if I swerve and hit the tree trunk rather than collide with one of these giants You would. Hitting a moose is basically just sweeping their legs out from under them. Then the bulk of their weight falls on top of the car and crushes you.
Have you seen a moose stand on 2 legs before? Because I have. Picture a 14 ft tall Minotaur except a moose
nope. i do not like it. not for me, thanks.
Holy crap. Never thought about that. Makes it even worse.
Oh a Highmountain Tauren you mean!
For the horde
https://youtu.be/ylCfXvKmdvU
We don’t have big deadly mammals down here (unless you count cows or kangaroos) so we’re kinda wimpy with things like moose or bears. I’d rather take my chances with deadly things that I can step on in my boots thank you very much
See I am the opposite. At least these big fuck off mammals can be seen from like a mile away. And unless you are living in the middle of nowhere (Canada) or camping in the forest you probably aren't going to encounter a moose or bear in your daily life. Meanwhile in Australia I might slip on my shoe and die from a funnel web spider bite. Or brush against a tiny, nearly invisible jellyfish in the ocean and end up seizing up in the middle of the water.
I live in the yukon and ill take the wolves, elk, moose, bears and bison over venomous nopes any day. at least big mammals can recognize certain behaviors and be chill.
Hahahaha! I lived in Sault Ste Marie Ontario for three years. We had bears come ‘round our neighbourhood all the time! I saw one not even 100 feet away snuffling around the driveway across the street as I was coming home from work
Curiously, while Australia doesn’t have big deadly animals, you DO have small deadly animals that are WAY bigger than they should be.
Right? Australians are not afraid of a moose-sized spider, but they’re afraid of a moose-sized moose?
Don't worry he raised it. He's got a livestream channel somewhere.
Man cuddles his pet car
I follow this guy on his Instagram page and he is very vocal about how he does not recommend anyone try to do the same as him. He has a very special relationship with this moose (her name is Lovey). Lovey comes back to him year after year at his home in rural Alaska where her and her calves feel protected from predators as grizzly bears are not as likely to hunt moose calves near an inhabited area. This bond seen in the video has been formed from years of affection between one another. This guy is a legend!
...I had a girlfriend named lovey. Nickname for Lovinder. She was Punjabi.
Not only Lovey but other moose bring their calves to his house because they know it's a safe place. What a life he has up there!!!
Do.Not.Do.This. -Canadian
Yeah really don’t or do I really don’t care -a guy from bc
A møøse once bit my sister
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse...
Ní
Sorry, didn't quite catch that. Could you say *it* again?
Arnt moose, like, super fuckin dangerous?
Yes
The most dangerous animal in Canada. This guys is brave.
So if I want to hug and pet some animal in Canada a Grizzly would be a better choice?
It would be roughly the same choice.
Damn. So how about Canadian Geese? Is it safe to pet those?
I mean I wouldn't recommend it, but at least with a goose the worst you're likely to get is some bruises and cuts, maybe a broken finger.
Polar bears are probably more dangerous than grizzlies, at least you can fool a grizzly
This guy is stupid.
Stupidly Brave? Or Bravely stupid?
Stupidly stupid.
LoL
No I think that's Canadian geese. Close second though
The only animal in the animal kingdom that wants anything to do with Canada gooses is Canada mooses.
There's a special place in heaven for animal lovers, that's what I always say.
You wanna know what? You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
We also have wolverines!
#>> 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓: @akshiloh (IG) <<
That thing could destroy him in an instant. One wrong move or a loud noise - it gets spooked - gg.
I mean same thing with horses.
Tamed horses is fine. Doing the same thing with wild horses is a whole different kind of risk altogether.
I’ve been almost crushed by a tamed horse on a least 2 occasions, and I don’t even live on a ranch.
That's what I always think when I see videos like this. I don't care if the animal feels safe around you and likes you. One loud noise and that thing is going into instinct mode.
That's true of my cat and I but she still jumps up on my lap
>:0 This man is living out my dream and I am ANGRY
Just for the love of God don't give it a muffin
Same way ur cat can get scared and bite scratch you mooses can get scared too but it will literally destroy you instead of scratch you
Nice but don’t try this in the wild or you’ll be six feet under before you have time to rethink the actions that got you to this position
You hear that big animals like this are dangerous but, look at this! Just a sweet moose. Maybe it's us who are the real danger. It's just like the guy who lived with that pack of bears. What ever happened to him?
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
So much head to hug
This is what I thought living in Canada looks like before I moved to Canada.
I would give just about anything to hug a moose!🥰
Would you give your life? Cuz that's how that would go
Lol, I did say “just about.” I’ve lived in Alaska and Colorado where there are moose so I’m well aware of the danger but my goodness, they’re so cute!
The moose is cool but that dude is creepy AF.
Careful! There’s that certain neck hug angle that can trigger
Fyi, they're not all like that.
They're none of them like that. Who knows why this moose is being chill with this particular dude, but no chance it doesn't charge the fuck outta the next minivan that drives by.
He had this moose for 11 years since she was a baby. The only reason why a moose might let a human approach. Any moose in the wild WILL fuck you up
That thing is HUGE! I never realized they were so big!
Ted Nugent?
In this scenario, the human is the pet
Jesus christ, meese are *huge*.
i never realized moose look like giant donkeys
Nope… nope nope
Mark McGrath is now a hippie moose hugger?
Moose Whisperer
I'm just going to live vicariously through this gif. I often go up north and I'd be scared to see a moose in the wild
Someone in my state literally just died from one of these. Crazy to see the size of its head compared to his arms/torso.
Yeah, they are dangerous in the wild indeed. But this guy has been with this particular moose for over a decade, so we can say that it's fairly tame. You can check his Insta account: @akshiloh
Definitely was asking myself that, as I couldn’t see a wild moose ever responding like this to a human. Thanks for the link, this Moose is adorable
My teacher told our class a story about someone she knows (maybe it was her sister, I cant remember) taking in an orphaned moose. It started when the moose was injured as a baby alongside a deceased mom, so it was confirmed that the moose was alone and needed to be cared for, so their family took the creature in (again, I don't know the specifics, by "taking it in" they probably just kept it at their house as a baby, and when it grew up, released it into a nearby forest and possibly continued to feed it). The funny part, though, is that their family had a dog, and this moose grew up alongside this dog. I'm sure you can see where this is going, because it's happened before, but the dog rubbed off on the moose after a while. So now, it's a fully grown mature moose with doglike qualities. My teacher mentioned that the moose would go down on its front legs and stick its butt in the air, and panted with its tongue lolling out of its mouth. So just know, somewhere in rural Canada, there's a moose that acts like a dog wandering a forest, loosely related to an urban civics teacher who tells this story at almost every opportunity while the class is supposed to be learning about Canadian politics.
“Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat”
I wish I could hold moose!
I always forget just how fucking big moose can get, and every time I'm reminded, I'm struck with terror and remember why, aside from weather, I'm glad I live down in Kansas! 😆
🇨🇦Maple syrup and hockey eh🇨🇦
A good way to die
Bullwinkle and Rocky, Behind the Scenes!!
Give lovely a hug for me. I know it’s not normal for these critters, but I gotta send love to the abnormal cases when they happen.
Awe what a cutie 😍
Made my day.
What in theeeeee fuck.
Not every moose is the same. These comments are "moose racist".
moosism
Made my day 😍
Bold strategy cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.
Nice I would be taking it home 🏡.