A bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the team of a rookie Iditarod musher near Fairbanks last week - and the attack didn’t end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal.
A large bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher near Fairbanks last week - and the attack didn’t end even afterShe said in social media posts that the moose, after seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn’t leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a larger caliber gun and killed the moose.
Watkins, who didn’t immediately respond to messages Tuesday to The Associated Press, said she and a friend who was trailing her on a snowmobile took refuge next to the snowmobile. “I have never felt so helpless in my life,” Watkins wrote. “He would not leave us alone and he even stood over top of the team refusing to retreat.”“It’s the most horrifying thing that can happen to you as a musher”: Truck strike kills and injures sled dogs in WillowAlaska State Troopers had been preparing a helicopter to respond but stopped doing so after they were told the moose was dead, agency spokesperson Tim DeSpain said in an email.
Another famous tale of a musher’s run-in with a crazed moose happened in the 1985 Iditarod - when the late Susan Butcher came across a moose while she was leading the race.
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