{"id":17244,"date":"2012-09-25T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2013-01-04T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T22:11:29","slug":"newman-the-positive-paramedic-project-78-mother-moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/newman-the-positive-paramedic-project-78-mother-moose\/","title":{"rendered":"Newman | The Positive Paramedic Project #78 Mother moose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A younger Sophie tries on a moose antler. Lac St Jean QC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #78 Mother moose<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The hunting trips were a family tradition. Kim and his kin would head up country to shoot some moose. That year the hunting permits specified calves.<\/p>\n

Kim set up shop in the woods. He waited until a moose calf came into range. He shot it. It was a clean kill and the big animal fell to the ground. As he made his way out to the dead moose, its mother arrived on the scene. Distraught, she turned on him and chased him back to his hunter\u2019s shack. He said the only way he could get her to stop charging him was to hold his gun to her head and threaten to shoot.<\/p>\n

She backed off and went back to the body of her calf where she kept vigil for hours.<\/p>\n

Eventually Kim was able to claim the calf\u2019s carcass.<\/p>\n

The next day he went back to the woods to do more hunting. As he walked through the trees he felt as if something was watching him. He turned around. The mother moose was standing just behind him.<\/p>\n

With rifle in hand he tried to get comfortable. The mother moose lay down on the ground next to him. She wouldn\u2019t leave. He did.<\/p>\n

The next day he made his way back to his stand. He crossed the road, went into the woods and was getting set up when a ranger approached on an ATV.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan I help you?\u201d<\/em> Kim asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust want to know what kind of scent you\u2019re wearing because there\u2019s a big ol\u2019 cow moose following you. She followed you right across the road and into the woods.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Kim turned around knowing what he\u2019d see. The mother moose was laying on the ground just a few feet away with her big eyes focused right on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shot her baby. She won\u2019t leave me alone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the damndest thing I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d<\/em> said the ranger as he looked at the big moose and then at Kim.<\/p>\n

Kim swears the mother moose was crying just before he called it quits for the day and decided to hang up his rifle forever.<\/p>\n

She followed him to the edge of the woods and then turned back alone.<\/p>\n

Be well. Practice big medicine.<\/p>\n

Hal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #78 Mother moose The hunting trips were a family tradition. Kim and his kin would head up country to shoot some moose. That year the hunting permits specified calves. Kim set up shop in the woods. He waited until a moose calf came into range. He shot it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10340,11552,21461,10342,10341,21619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigmedicine.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}