Alaska Wildlife Troopers received a call from an individual who reported that her and her husband had rescued a moose calf and brought it back to their home. According to the caller, they were at Moose Creek and saw a moose calf stranded on a rock. After the calf's mother was unsuccessful in retrieving the calf, it left the area. The next day, the couple returned to find the calf still stranded on the rock and the cow moose nowhere nearby. They decided to take action rescuing the calf and bringing it home where officers later met up with them. Cute little guy. Yeah. Couldn't get up the bank of the river last night and I guess his mom was trying to get him down the river a little further where it was easier, but she never did. Yeah. What was uh your name, sir? Sage. Sage? Mhm. So, you guys came back around 1:30 and found him in Yeah, yeah. He was laying on the bank. I just went over to check to see if he's okay and if he's still alive, so. Got you. It wasn't easy to get back over there, but Got you. Yeah, so we got a kennel uh Fish and Game warden just to pick him up and then they'll we'll bring him to the humane society. And I heard what? No. And then uh they'll check him out. They'll probably take him to the zoo for a little bit and find some placement for him. Good. Yeah, I didn't know I mean, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of places around here that are willing to do anything with him. Yeah. Hello. Hi. Cute little fella. This is my antique store. Yeah, well, he's getting a kennel Do I need to remove my clothes or that Uh oh, oh, don't touch him too Yeah, let's leave him alone for a moment then. Hello. Hi. Um if you have you was asking if you have another GPS or about where on the creek Yeah. That's what I was >> Yeah, oh, yeah, I got to see that. Oh. It's right down there where you go where people go camping all the time. Right down there there's a camping trail. >> where the old bridge used to be, the the washout? Uh If you were going back to the actual mine? No, when you go back to the mine, this is about halfway to the mine. So, when you're driving down you got two bends where it gets real close to the river Mhm. and then there's a turn off where they go down and they were camping there's like an outhouse there and stuff. It's usually washed out down in there. Um I want to say it's about mile and a quarter down Buffalo Mine. Okay. But um this was like right in one of the bends where it gets really close to the road that second bend there. Okay. Let's see here. They asked me to do kind of an assessment on Do we know if it's a It's a male. It's a male. Okay. Yeah. It was fighting pretty good, so Yeah, we can do that. You said your person is safe? Mhm. How do you spell S A G E This is being pretty good health. Yeah, I know. Me. Well, he was running down the river last night against against the current, so I didn't think he'd be able to get up the river or bank, but he never did. >> Yeah. All All Um if you want to do Have you picked one up before? No, I haven't. So, kind of like goats or sheep or something like that you just want to scoop chest and at the hot here at the hind so they can't kick and struggle around and they'll just He'll do it. All right. I'm sure they can make it swimming all the way across the river. And then try to Here is Here is a very good to keep the pumpkin in. Yeah. You lost your You want to grab the camera and get them scooted up. I can share that location and see if you guys want to go. Yeah, if you could, that would be great. You got a cell phone number I can send it to? Uh yeah. Or I can air drop it if you guys Yeah, air drop works. Can you share it on here? Uh yeah, it's taking a while to load, but it might be better if I just have you text it to me. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yep. All right. We'll do what's in the best interest of the Now, we'll we'll uh talk with ADF&G um and and that's just about it um in the future. Yeah, I know. Yeah. So, there there there's I just couldn't leave them laying out there to die. Yeah, I get it. There there's so there there might be a citation. Um we're we're it's we're not it's not like a criminal matter. It's it's a it's a violation like a traffic citation. Um but yeah, if you have you can call us uh if you come across that again. Uh we have some additional numbers you can call after hours for ADF&G or we can come out and do an assessment or or something like that. Um I mean is this happening this time of year? I was just down at the interchange one had gotten stuck on one side at the the Palmer or the Parks off-ramp for the southbound lane and just sat down on the side of the road and mom is you know 3 400 yards out in the marsh and is kind of like you know over here and then make their little calls and try to get mom to come back and now he's gone in the morning and he's he's out of there. So I don't know and that's kind of what I was hoping that and like I said he was I mean she was there and trying to get him out but he never showed back up. >> Well it it's and it's hard to judge. It it it may be uh an abandonment. Um but this time of year when they're they're kind of just dropping them um we have another one is literally like right sitting on somebody's deck and ask the person well how long has she been since she saw mom and they're like oh it's been 5 hours it's like well they'll sit them and and they'll abandon them for between 24 and 48. Um and then kind of circle back around to them. Yeah. But I I understand. Well with him being in the river I don't think he would have survived that long anyway. >> Yeah. But I get it. I understand. I I hear what you're saying. >> I I just don't want it to be a surprise. I wouldn't uh have done it had it not been that situation but like I said it was he was already pretty hypothermic and I don't think he would have made it but I get what you're saying. I'm not arguing. All right. All right. Cool. Sounds good. Appreciated anyway. No problem. Uh if you want to jump up and slide him back and then get him locked in. Still being a mom. Yeah that's so it doesn't like get rocked around. In the end Sage was issued a citation for possessing live game without a permit, a non-criminal violation. He played no contest and was ordered to pay $270 in cost and fines. The calf was transported to the Alaska Zoo for further care. The state of Alaska recommends leaving orphaned animals alone. Wild animals can carry disease or become aggressive in keeping them in captivity before releasing them can spread new diseases to wild populations. 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