Canadian officials warn drivers not to let moose lick their cars

[marmar]

(CNN) Canadians, officials have an important message for you: "Do not let moose lick your car."

Yes, you read that right.

Officials in Jasper, an alpine town in Canada's Alberta province, have put up signs asking motorists to avoid allowing moose to lick the salt, a treat moose find hard to resist, off their cars.

"They're obsessed with salt, it's one of the things they need for the minerals in their body," Jasper National Park spokesman Steve Young told CNN. "They usually get it from salt lakes in the park, but now they realized they can also get road salt that splashes onto cars." .........(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/22/americas/canada-warns-moose-lick-cars-trnd/index.html?

[SheltieLover]

1. How would one go about stopping them?

[mr_lebowski]

3. Lol it's like I answered you below ... nt

[pandr32]

4. I thought the same

[barbtries]

11. my first thought.

"no, moose!"

dash away and risk hurting it?

[Midnight Writer]

26. Drop ping pong balls on them. They hate that.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Just get out of your car and, ya know, have a few words with the moose ...

Let 'em know in no uncertain terms that's YOUR salt ... and you're prepared to defend it in a contest of physical strength and dominance ...

[Marthe48]

6. lol

nt

[SheltieLover]

7. Yup the "superior" human would lose for sure!

[malaise]

25. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[tonedevil]

28. You would try Moose wrestling? /nt

[mr_lebowski]

5. A moose once bit my sister ... mind you moose bites can be pretty nasty ... (nt)

[SheltieLover]

9. Omg

She ok?

[mr_lebowski]

12. Oh yah for sure

You see, she was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

[SheltieLover]

16. Lol

[Leith]

22. Did you do the opening credits for Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Sorry you got sacked. I pause just to read them all every time.

[MineralMan]

8. That's funny. "Go away, moosie!"

That reminds me of the Minnesota Zoo, which used to have a couple of moose in an exhibit there. My wife and I went to that nice zoo, shortly after moving to Minnesota. We got to the moose enclosure, where a sign was posted:

"Do Not Touch the Moose."

Normally, I am obedient to such signs, but as we stood on the platform overlooking the enclosure, a very large male Moose strode over and stuck his head and impressive horns over the railing on the platform, looking mournfully at me as I stood right there beside his head.

So, I reached out and did what I always do to large mammals that present their heads to me. I scratched the top of the moose's head fairly vigorously with my fingers. Mr. Moose carefully moved his head to indicate where additional scratches were needed, so I obliged. After a good scratching he moved off.

In the meantime, a family with children came onto the platform, while I was helping the itchy moose with head-scratching. My wife looked at the children and said, "Do not do what that man is doing." That was just before the moose, satisfied with my attentionis, walked away from the platform.

Who am I to deny a request from a friendly moose with an itchy head? I mean, really...

[roamer65]

17. They are a lot like cattle.

Give them a salt block and a scratching post and they are in heaven.

Ahhh...life’s simpler pleasures.

[MineralMan]

23. Like all animals, all mammals have itches they can't scratch.

The top and back of the head are especially troublesome to scratch. I've had great success in making friends with all sorts of creatures, large and mall, by scratching their heads. As you say, simple pleasures that humans can render, since we have hands and fingernails.

[mbusby]

10. From fark.com....

"A Møøse once likt my sister"

[mr_lebowski]

15. And Moose likts kan be pretti nasti! nt

[robbob]

13. Returning to Canada from a fishing trip to upstate Maine

We found our road blocked by a moose. Came to a dead stop on a small back road. Honked the horn, drove a bit closer, moose was unfazed. My bil, who operates a dairy farm with sis rolled down the window, stuck his hands out and clapped, once! Loudly. Just like he would with one of his herd. That moose took off in a flash.

Luckily there was no salt involved, but I guess it would be worth a try...

[roamer65]

14. If you lick it, you can mate with it.

If this van’s a rockin, don’t come knockin.

[Towlie]

18. If they can lick road salt off a car then you'd think they'd just lick it off the road.

 
?
 
We don't see many moose down here in Florida, or road salt for that matter.

[abqtommy]

19. Okay, now I understand. This is from the link:

By allowing moose to lick the salt off your car, they will become habituated with being around cars. That poses a risk to both the animals and the drivers who can accidentally crash into them.

[DBoon]

20. go to 1:45 in the following video

[jeffreyi]

21. One would hope, then that they are placing salt blocks out away from the roads.

Yes, it's "impure," but so are roads.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. I wouldn't want a moose's tongue stuck to my car!

I'd tell them to go lick a salty flagpole..........

The obvious solution is to coat yer car with Louisiana hot sauce......


KY....where no mooses roam.......

[Beringia]

29. 1050 views for a story about moose, and 200 views for some up-to-date coronavirus charts