When Andy was driving up to the land yesterday, he saw a mother and baby elk on the road. The mother leaped the ditch on the left and ran up the hill. The baby looked to the left and saw the ditch, looked to the right and saw the steep hillside, then he started running up the road on his wobbly legs.
Mother Elk.
Baby Elk.
Unfortunately he had to go about a half mile before he found a suitable place to get off.
Andy drove slowly, trying not to stress the baby even more, and at one point he could have passed the little one but the baby didn’t understand and kept running. The mother was doing the best she could to keep track of the baby, and presumably they were reunited after Andy was out of the picture.
Poor baby! That was an adventure he could have done without.
June 5, 2014
Little feller was definitely in a predicament given the two confining factors. You all may have done the best thing for him given the circumstances. Fortunately he didn’t panic and really hurt himself.
Yes, he could easily have done that.
Every day in our local news pages, we come across human mothers and babies getting separated in crowded bus stands and railway stations only to be reunited later on due to vigilant citizens and the police who are very used to this. On special occasions like temple fairs or the kumbh mela, special trained police force helped by volunteer civilians do this more or less routinely. Indian cinema is full of siblings separated like this in childhood growing up to be adversaries till they find out their relationships.
We don’t hear many cases like that here — mothers tend to be super vigilant. If anything kids are overprotected when they get older.
lost little ones seems to rife at big shows here…an announcement will be made on the tannoy – little girl wearing red dress, white shoes with a pink bow in her hair. I always think, does the parent remember which coloured dress they had on. Or little boy who says his name is arran and he is wearing a brown jersey & grey shorts!
That’s interesting, more like India than here.
Jean, the problem in India is the sheer numbers! In public places and functions, people will be coming out of the woodwork as it were!
I could tell you about the baby elk that was run into a barbed wire fence by Kendall’s dog. The baby stayed by Tom to the car to get first aid supplies & be away from dog.
Mama elk & I were standing side by side, horrified. I was amazed at how BIG mama elk was. Baby got with mama & the elk group. I wasn’t going to say all this but got carried away.
That’s a great story! Thank you for taking the time to share it.