It’s not every day that you come across a moose stuck in the snow. Moose, as you may or may not know, are pretty damn good at making their way through the white stuff. Sometimes, though, everybody needs a helping hand. That was the case when a few snowmobilers in Newfoundland, Canada, came across a moose that was in a very un-moose-like predicament.
It was buried up to its neck in snow and struggling to free itself. “You could tell he was frantically trying to get out of the hole that he had himself in,” Nathan Anstey, who was guiding the group, told CBC News.
Although moose can be dangerous due to their size and strength, Anstey, along with the others, pulled out their shovels and began digging it out. “It’s an up to 1,000-pound animal and they can do quite some damage,” Anstey said. “But considering his back legs were down in the mud hole, we knew he couldn’t get out quickly and bust out to trample us.”
Fifteen minutes later, they managed to dig a big enough path for the moose to escape. It shook itself off and calmly walked away, stopping briefly to glance back at its rescuers.
