Deerfoot moose killing draws fire from animal rights group

[jennielynn1970]

Isn't that what they're trained for?? To get close enough to an animal to tranquilize it and then move it if need be???

I didn't think you would be a conservationist to just say, ya know, I couldn't make the shot/get close enough to tranquilize it, so, oh well, we killed it instead.

Whoever that person was, or persons, they need to go back and get some remedial training.

[jonsidneyb]

I don't want to see any animal needlessly killed but I think before judgement is passed much thought needs to be put into this.

Only one kind of tranquilizer works on moose and it doesn't work very good. Moose that have been shot with a tranquilizer are actually more dangerous before the animal goes down if it goes down at all.

The mammal that kills more humans in Canada than any other is the Moose. The animal that kills more humans than all others in Alaska is the Moose. The wild animal that kills more than any other mammal is the Moose. Moose have killed people on college campuses, and in towns.

A helicoptor has been brought down by a tranquilized moose. Groups of tied up sled dogs have been killed by moose. Family pets that could not get away have been killed by moose.

I would prefer that moose in the wild to be left alone. I really don't want them bothered anywhere but I can understand the reaction of people that know moose when they get into more populated areas. How do they explain to people when a moose kills someone and the officials explain that tranquilizers are somewhat ineffective against them due to their make up.

They might have been wrong to shoot the moose but then again they might have been right. What would you do if you had to make the choice. It is not always that easy. I bet if they did dart the moose and a couple of people died they would be out of a job and someone what would shoot it would be in there place.

There is some old footage of a moose killing a man in front of a store then it goes and kills another person about a hundred yards further up then it is shoot by locals.

I love animals, I really do but sometimes things have to be done.