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Moose momma and youngster visit northwest Calgary

Jason Behr was playing ball with his dog when he suddenly heard a "clomp, clomp, clomp" behind him and turned to see not one but two moose running toward his yard in the northwest Calgary community of Tuscany.

Pair goes for a trot through the community of Tuscany before crossing the road to Blue Ridge Estates

Moose visit Calgary's Tuscany

9 years ago
Duration 0:39
Jason Behr was playing ball with his dog when he suddenly heard a "clomp, clomp, clomp" behind him and turned to see not one, but two moose running toward his yard in the northwest Calgary community of Tuscany.

Jason Behr was playing ball with his dog Wednesday evening when he suddenly heard a "clomp, clomp, clomp" behind him.

The Calgary resident turned to see not one but two moose running toward his yard — on the other side of a fence, fortunately — in the northwest community of Tuscany.

"They came right up to my fence," he said. "When I turned around and saw them I pulled out my camera and they walked off."

The mother moose had jumped into a neighbour's yard, Behr said, but the youngster couldn't follow, so the mom hopped back onto public property and approached his fence before the pair headed across a nearby road and into a patch of trees.

The encounter happened near 12 Mile Coulee Road, across from Blue Ridge Estates — a residential area at the city's northwest periphery that has seen its share of wildlife before.

In 2014, a rare grizzly sighting prompted a warning for people who live in the area to keep their kids and pets indoors.