A group of snowmobilers in New Hampshire saved a young moose doe who needed a helping hoof.
Returning home for lunch after a morning zipping over the drifts 4 to 5 feet deep, Mike Dion told WMUR news that he and his friends came across an unexpected sight: a moose buried up to its neck in snow.
It was clearly in trouble. All they could see was its snout and the tuft of its mane above its panicked eyes.
“Everyone looks at their cellphone, no service,” Dion said. “We couldn’t call Fish and Game, because that was our first thought.
“Well, if we don’t do nothing,” Dion remembers thinking, “the moose probably isn’t going to survive.”
Approaching cautiously, they found that the animal was exhausted, but calm. It had clearly been attempting to free itself without success, and Dion and his friends weren’t even sure if its hooves were on solid ground or not.
Slowly they began to dig the moose out, needing about 20 minutes on their hands and knees to do so.
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“Eventually, we got her up and got her going, and she seemed to be all in good health,” Dion said. “I think she was happy. She wasn’t aggressive or too nasty with us. That’s what we were worried about at first.”
After ‘she’ was freed, the snowmobilers stuck around 10 minutes or so to make certain she was steady before they returned home.
A Fish and Game Department official told WMUR that moose are dangerous animals when cornered, spooked, or provoked. The best course of action, she recommended, if you were to find yourself in the same situation is to call the department.
The story is reminiscent of a story GNN covered in 2024, where snowmobilers in Anchorage dug out a moose that was trapped, but who needed “hours” to free the beast as it had fallen—and then frozen—into the ice of a frozen creek.
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