BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers rescued a moose that had become trapped in the basement of a house in Breckenridge on Monday. CPW officers received a call at 3:30 p.m. on Mon., January 10 with a report that a moose was trapped in the basement of a house off Ski Hill Road in Breckenridge.
Wildlife officers responded and discovered a moose that had been grazing near a home had fallen through a snow-covered window well and into the home’s basement. Responding officers opened doors to create exits for the moose, but could not get the moose to leave because it required going up a basement staircase to reach the exits.
CPW officers tranquilized the moose and cut off its antlers so that it could fit up the home’s stairs and reduce further damage to the home. Moose antlers typically fall off this time of year and the moose will grow new antlers this spring.
Breckenridge Police, Blue River Police, and the Red, White & Blue Fire and EMS helped CPW wildlife officers carry the moose upstairs and outside where it was safely released back into quality moose habitat.
“It was a great team effort, and other than a small cut on its leg, the moose appeared to be healthy,” said CPW District Wildlife Manager Jake Kay.
“It’s important that window wells allow people in a home to escape in the event of an emergency, but at times they can be hazards to wildlife,” said CPW Area Wildlife Manager Jeromy Huntington. “Removing vegetation that may attract wildlife around the vicinity of window wells and covering below ground window wells with approved grates that allow people to escape will reduce the likelihood of wildlife becoming trapped, or in this case, having an unwelcome visitor in the home.”
Seriously, he’d be welcome here…
From MazeDancer:
Do you need a spunky senior snuggler?
Look at Princess! https://t.co/WbBqtZA2oZ— I've Pet That Dog (@IvePetThatDog) January 26, 2022
From SiubhanDuinne:
My niece in Phoenix shared this:
“ Since we bought our house I have wanted a running fence for the front yard. With flame lanterns. Today I came home to this. It is more than I ever dreamed of!”
While she was at work, her brother, husband, daughter, and some-in-law built her the fence of her dreams and installed lanterns. No reason. It wasn’t her birthday or anything. But just because they are all nice people who take pleasure in giving pleasure.
I’ll do better….I’m going to try and get her sixteen-week photos done tomorrow. Fifteen slipped by and I didn’t get any photos. She does keep us busy! I did make a fun lunch on my new griddle here if you need some quick meal ideas. Nothing fancy, but tasty.
I can still use kindness articles, so keep ’em coming. I do reply thank you to each one, so if you didn’t get a response, please send again.
pat
Now I can go to bed with a smile on my face.
Thank you.
lollipopguild
Thank you for all of the animal videos and “puppy” pictures!
ruemara
Awwww. I’m surprised today for me didn’t involve a moose. Yes, even though it’s semirural california. And that Kate di Camillo story is almost as sweet as those puppy toes.
Benw
Trixie is adorbs. And the kindness posts let me take a deep relaxing breath.
It’s not exactly a whole post but one of my best friends just sent us a new game because he knows we love games, just because he’s a totally awesome dude.
Finally I’ve been watching the amazing Archive 81 season on Netflix, and that pic of the moose totally fits the vibe of the show…
mrmoshpotato
Better? Oh, you’re so good to us! Thank you again for this new line of posts.
NotMax
Nuthin’ hipper than a moose with a fade.
;)
eclare
Wow! That moose! I wonder how many people it took to carry it?
So nice when stories have a happy ending, thank you for these.
Steeplejack (phone)
“Dog meets the new addition.”
NotMax
Happy feet.
Grover Gardner
My wife and I have owned so many dogs. ;-) But as we near retirement and will loose our last pup in a few years, we have decided on only seniors. They’re so sweet and deserve that last hurrah before they go.
zhena gogolia
@pat: Me too. “Last Night in Soho” took a rather too exciting turn. I need to calm down.
Fierce Diana Rigg though!
TeezySkeezy
*Looks at moose pic, feels not so upset about cleaning up own kitchen.*
TaMara
On personal news – we spent the lunch hour at the thrift store where I scored a covered Fiestaware serving bowl in my set colors, a yellow vintage Ball pitcher to add to my collection, a Great Dane puppy sized stuffed floppy monkey, and a few other kitchen items, all for $20. The pups are enjoying the stuffed monkey.
TeezySkeezy
@NotMax: Unless he shits all over your floor.
stinger
Wonderful post.
NotMax
@TeezySkeezy
Opportunity knocks for home crafting.
;)
debbie
Just sayin’, the moose got down to the basement with his antlers…. ??♀️
sukabi
@debbie: through a window…
sukabi
@NotMax: my grandma brought some of those back from Alaska 50 years ago … Not a new “craft” ???
Eric S.
This picture is a couple weeks old but this is Kepler (solid-ish black) and Newton (black&white). I adopted them the Sunday after Thanksgiving after losing my Ozzie 3 weeks earlier. They a tree e awesome. We have made each other’s lives better.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/bxt2yJWvvhqe7ArG8
KrackenJack
I got a indoor air monitor (purpleair) and it has made me paranoid about pan frying or oven broiling – let alone indoor grilling. I still do it*, but I keep the pan covered and run all the exhaust fans on full**.
As Bob Seger once said: Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
* My life would be substantially diminished without a TJ hash brown and sunny side up egg every so often.
** The 3M 2500 HVAC filter is surprisingly good at clearing fine particulates even after a few months.
brendancalling
My hearing aid is now controlled via Bluetooth from an app on my phone. All sorts of fancy options!
Starboard Tack
It wasn’t a REAL big moose, but still.
BigJimSlade
@TeezySkeezy: Yeah, looking at that floor, you could clean it and make pie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zb1qsVqjwg
ruemara
My sister was bitten by a Moose
mrmoshpotato
@ruemara: Did she bite it back and then ask why it didn’t taste like ice cream?
Thor Heyerdahl
@ruemara:
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge—her brother-in-law— an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: “The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink”…
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti…
Mike in Oly
There is an iris named ‘Moose Tracks‘ and it is the prettiest little thing. It is racking up awards.
@ruemara, you made my night!
Eric – they are adorable!
Mo Salad
Actually, it was the Berkowitzes.
opiejeanne
Thank you for this. I needed to be reminded that there is kindness out there. The moose in the basement was quite the story.
I was unkind to my dear husband yesterday and yelled at him about how he does not use his computer. I’m ashamed of myself, and there’s no excuse for me losing all patience with him, but I do despair that if I die first he will be unable to cope with simple things, like sending his tax information to our CPA. I had forwarded some information from our CPA to him and he said he hadn’t gotten them, so I sent them again and he still didn’t receive them.
He prides himself on deleting everything after he reads an email or a text on his phone, and told me that he doesn’t use his computer for email, just his phone. We got into it because he couldn’t tell me when he last received an email from anyone and kept insisting that he was getting them from our kids or a friend, and I realized he was talking about text messages. He kept showing me folders marked with various people’s names, thinking that they were his email. He asked me why I was looking in the In Box.
I looked at his email account and discovered that he was not signed in and couldn’t see any new mail. So I fixed that, and told his phone and his computer to save his password, and I wrote them down where I can find them.
I told him how worried I was that if I died first he wouldn’t be able to do these things. He said he’d considered the same thing, probably thinking how relieved he’d be if I did, after the way I behaved.
He’s not senile, he’s just … I don’t know.
I was much nicer today, but I still have to do battle with the evil forces of Intuit tomorrow to either retrieve or change the password because, like a dolt, when I let the computer create a random password I expected the computer to also remember it for me, and I didn’t write it down, and the computer didn’t either.
opiejeanne
@Thor Heyerdahl: Hee! I was thinking about that when I saw the moose in the basement.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: A good password manager is your friend.
BeautifulPlumage
Thank you Tamara, and for posting with all **** (waves hand) this going on in your life. Love seeing pup updates! Take care – you have a lot going on.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It didn’t manage the password this time, it forgot it.
NotMax
Ka-ching. Luckily, there’s not much in the way of roads or distance to drive on the Pineapple Isle.
That’s no typo. The price of a gallon of unleaded on Lanai hit $6.39 this week
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Yikes!
raven
@NotMax: Man I bet the Die Hard’s rate has skyrocketed! I also recall that electricity there is mostly oil fired?
lowtechcyclist
@Thor Heyerdahl:
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
rikyrah
This post was??????
debbie
What a dream encounter that must have been for the children’s book author!
Fester Addams
@brendancalling:
We’re living in the future. How long before our hearing aids can be programmed to admonish us “stand up straight”, “lift your feet!”
HinTN
Deleted wong thread
way2blue
The Despereaux story is adorable. Thank you! (One of my sons bonded with the Ralph (the mouse) stories. And our 3 kids got three baby mice for Christmas one year. Although his ‘Ralph’ turned out to not to be a Ralph and a litter of baby mice were returned to the pet store… )