A Spokane, Washington family got a surprise arrival when a moose calf fell through a basement window and into a bedroom recently.
The Spokesman Review reports that the baby moose was apparently foraging in the shallow snow close to the house when it fell into a deep window well on Thursday. As it tried to get out and join its mother and sibling, the moose kicked in the window and ended up trapped in the bedroom.
Washington state wildlife biologist Woody Myers got the call, thinking at first the police officer who phoned him was joking.
Myers managed to shoot a tranquilizer dart into the moose's rump. Then, he and four other men used a tarp to haul the moose up a narrow stairway.
Wildlife officers were later able to track down the calf's mother and sibling and trucked the reunited family out near Mount Spokane for release.
The area has gotten more than three metres of snow in the past three weeks.
The Associated Press-Spokane
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Sad but you got to admit, funny too. We had a full sized, antlered buck run smack dab into a window of our home here in Collingwood two years ago. It was such a shock to see that thing in our neighbourhood but it's what's happening as we develop all the green space and protected areas around us.