“I Couldn’t Leave The Animal Alone”: Man Saves Baby Moose From Bear And Gets Freed For It

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Sometimes you do something good and you get punished for it anyway. That’s exactly what happened to Canadian Mark Skage from British Columbia.

On behalf of his employer AFD Petroleum, a fuel supplier, Skage was returning from a construction site in early June when he spotted a baby moose by the side of the road. The man stopped and wanted to know what the animal meant, writes the New York Post.

Baby moose fled from black bear

But when Skage got out of his car, the animal tried to climb in. When the man saw a bear chasing the animal some distance away, Skage understood why the baby moose was in such a hurry to escape. “A black bear was waiting 50 yards away,” Skage wrote in a Facebook post.

“After the animal kept trying to climb into the car, I decided I couldn’t just leave it there,” says Skage. He placed the baby moose on the passenger side and drove off to find help in the nearest town.

Knowingly violating wildlife law

While driving, Skage first called his boss and then the local conservation officer and told them about the incident. Meanwhile, he had named the baby moose Misty.

Finally, Skage found a place for the calf. He handed it over to a shelter. “A few days later, Misty was taken to a rehab center a little further south where they will let her grow up a bit before releasing her back into the wild,” says Skage.

Although he knew that he had stepped on thin ice with the action. “It is against the law to take wild animals off the road or into the wild. It is also illegal to possess or transport wild animals,” Skage, who appears to know the law well, told CBC.

Employer has no mercy

To him, the case seemed closed. But his employer apparently did not like his employee coming into contact with the law. He fired Skage a short time later.

“Instead of leaving the moose rescue to the authorities, the employee made the independent decision to transport a wild and unharmed moose calf in the front seat of his company car for several hours,” the company manager told broadcaster CBC. Skage may have gotten the moose into trouble and damage.

For Skage, the episode is particularly bitter. Still, he learned something from the whole thing. “For AFD Petroleum, dumping fuel on the ground seems fine, but it doesn’t help nature.” (ceded)

Source: Blick