If You Give A Moose A Muffin: Wyoming Highway Patrolman Makes New Friend in Front Yard

It is like we all the time say: If You Give A Moose a Muffin…

That is a lesson that that Wyoming Freeway Patrolman Clifford Shrock and his spouse, Kay, discovered final week once they found a Moose casually munching on their tree leaves, proper subsequent to the trooper’s patrol automobile.

“My spouse was really the one who filmed it,” Clifford mentioned. “I used to be nonetheless sleeping, as a result of I work nights.”

Sometimes, it is at night time when essentially the most thrilling issues occur however this even occurred within the early morning hours. Fortunately, Kay was there together with her iPhone prepared, capturing not solely the munching Moose however his (or her) whole household as nicely.

“I used to be sitting in my recliner, ingesting my morning espresso after I noticed motion outdoors,” Kay informed K2 Radio Information. “I seemed out the window beside my chair, and there was a moose! Excited, I put my telephone as much as the display and recorded a couple of moments earlier than waking my daughter so she might see him too. That is the second morning I’ve had moose in my yard this summer time. It is all the time thrilling and a bit intimidating.”

And it is intimidating for good purpose!

A well-liked animal web site said that whereas moose will not be sometimes harmful, they will change into aggressive given the best circumstances.

“Moose are often not harmful, though they will change into aggressive if they’re harassed by people, domesticated pets, or site visitors,” the web site said. “They’ll additionally change into temperamental when hungry or drained, particularly throughout the winter once they should journey by means of deep snow.”

Which is why it is all the time vital to have a muffin.

However if you happen to give a moose a muffin, he’ll need jam to go together with it. So you may convey out a few of your mom’s home made blackberry jam. When he is completed consuming the muffin, he’ll need one other.

And one other.

And so forth.

So! Greatest to simply let the moose eat your leaves.

On this explicit occasion, Mr. Moosenstein (which is what we have named him), chowed down whereas towering over Clifford’s patrol automobile.

Clifford has been a Wyoming Freeway Patrol Trooper since 2019. At first, he wasn’t certain if the academy would even settle for him, given the truth that he had bronchial asthma. However they did and the remainder, as they are saying, is historical past.

“I really like this job,” Clifford mentioned. “I really like my staff. We’re extra like a household than something. That is the best group of individuals I might have ever labored with.”

Whereas Clifford protects drivers on the highways and byways of Wyoming, Kay is a self-professed ‘Ranch Mother,’ who additionally doubles as a blogger/influencer.

For sure, their newest video has made for some beautiful content material.

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