McMoose?

Single college moose seeks fun, attractive moosette

A moose that wandered onto the Northern Michigan University campus and broke a dormitory window might have been looking for love in all the wrong places.

City police chased the animal away one evening last month after the incursion at Magers Hall, Detective Capt. Mike Angeli said. It was unclear whether the moose got inside the building.

“It’s not unusual for a moose to do something like this now,” said Dean Beyer, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist who has an office at Northern Michigan. “We’re in the middle of the mating rut right about now.

“Moose, especially a young bull moose, will move long distances,” he said. “They could be searching for a cow to mate with, or simply be a young bull dispersing after being chased away from its herd and looking for a new home range.”

We’ve had experience with moose wandering over to our cottage and looking in the windows, but none have ever managed to get inside. Moose are huge animals, I certainly wouldn’t want one wandering around my rooms, particularly if it were rutting season.