Moose Licking Cars
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
Canada
December 20, 2016 10:11am CST
When I was a kid with a horse, there was a salt lick in the pasture and we would see deer all winter licking away...
A warning has gone out lately here in Canada. If you see a moose licking your car it's just licking the salt off your car. The warning is to remember its a wild animal, a huge wild animal and mostly wild and not friendly.
Where I live in Canada you won't see a moose. We are a bit too over populated with humans and homes and cars. But in the farther north and farther west it is a normal sighting.
When camping in the Adirondacks and while visiting my family in Vermont, we hear about the moose but I've never seen one... NY State has moose crossing signs on the highway but that is as close to a moose I've ever been... (photo above)
The video below show some of the animals in western Canada licking people cars. It's fun to watch....
Moose clamouring to lick the salt off vehicles has created an unusual tourist attraction in the Spray Lakes area Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos: ...
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. I am remembering now that farmers are giving blocks of salt to lick to sheep.
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
21 Dec 16
yes ma'am, they'll certainly do that :) i believe one t'was jest sweet'n me when i lived'n alaska 's she always showed'p 'bout the time i got to work. jest wish she'd cleaned the windows a tad bit better, lol.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
23 Dec 16
@PainsOnSlate the pipeline sent me to alaska, got me a secretarial job 'n transferred there from louisiana. talk 'bout a culture/temperature shock, lol. drove the whole way, took me 3 weeks :) summer'n alaska 'tis wonderful, yer tempted to ne'er sleep coz ya jest know yer gonna miss somethin'! i'd be winterin' down'n n.y., too. then 'gain, with all the weather changes, parts 'f alaska might be more kind.
i watched'n horror 's those folks hired to work the pipeline destroyed so much, killed so many critters jest coz they 'xisted. 'fter nearly 3 years, i couldn't bare't any longer 'n came back down.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
23 Dec 16
@crazyhorseladycx It sounds like a nice place to work and live but your employees must be crazy to kill for fun...it would be different if it was hunting season (to keep the numbers down to a normal number and if they eat what they kill.) But to kill for fun is not a good thing...
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
22 Dec 16
If I were younger i would want to live in Alaska... It welcomed my sister and I this past fall and looked like a great place to live. What sent you to Alaska and how long were you there? A young woman who drove the buses that took us from our ship to our day trips said she drives a bus in NYC but had the opportunity to join the cruise business for the summer so she does both - summer in Alaska and Winter in NY.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Dec 16
They are big but if you were in a car you would be safe...I look forward seeing one from my car or my sister in laws windows.
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@rebelann (111777)
• El Paso, Texas
25 Dec 16
Have that camera ready @PainsOnSlate we'd love to see what you get to see.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
7 Jan 17
I'm still waiting to see one up close and personal...with me sitting in a car.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Dec 16
Yes it does. It melts the ice and snow and it splashes up on to our cars. We wash it often during the winter to keep the salt off the cars. Our black cars turn white in the winter...
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@JudyEv (329260)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Dec 16
@PainsOnSlate Another fact I've learnt. :)
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
21 Dec 16
I saw a few moose when we were in Yellowstone National Park, but they were a ways away, I have heard they are quite mean. Cute video.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Dec 16
I've heard they are not friendly or cuddly, I still want to see one someday, while I'm driving by in my car, not while hiking....
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
27 Dec 16
@PainsOnSlate I hear you don't want to run across one while outside my car.
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@snowy22315 (172768)
• United States
5 Jan 17
I have seen moose close up and they are so big,,they are really imtimidating!
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
5 Jan 17
I'm looking forward to seeing one in the wild, but with me in a car...
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
21 Dec 16
I've only ever seen them at zoos. I'd probably be scared to see one in person.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Dec 16
They are not friendly but I want to see one in the wild, when I'm in a car....
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 Dec 16
With all the salt they put on the roads during the winter it is no wonder they are licking. I just hope it is real salt not chemical-laced salt.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
22 Dec 16
I was thinking the same thing, I wonder if they are smart enought to know the difference...
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@DWDavis (25806)
• United States
21 Dec 16
Cross another item off the list of things I thought I'd never see, A Moose Lick Warning. I've never seen a moose but my wife and youngest son had one cross the road in front of them while they were in New Hampshire near Mount Washington several years ago.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Dec 16
I keep looking when I'm in New England but so far nothing! I hadn't heard of them licking cars until I saw this video.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
21 Dec 16
We had a giraffe lick our car once-a long story! Will check out the video.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Dec 16
Very interesting, how was your car within reach of a giraffe?
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Dec 16
My horses always had one too, I've never thought about the wild animals liking salt but obviously they do...I loved the video too...Now I wasnt to see it on my own!!!
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@jillybean1222 (6408)
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26 Dec 16
that's really interesting! i wouldn't have known they would be licking the salt
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
26 Dec 16
Its the first time I've heard of it but that is what they do...
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@TheHorse (209351)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 Dec 16
I saw a moose false charge an overzealous photographer once. I think it was in Alberta. I laughed. Camera went flying, and the guy fell on his a r s e, but the moose didn't actually continue the charge. I hope the fella bought himself a telephoto lens for his next birthday.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
23 Dec 16
I would have enjoyed seeing that myself. Thanks for the laugh.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
21 Dec 16
We had ice after snow and watched the big salt trucks go by our house a dozen times, It does melt the ice, thankfully, no if I could get it off my driveway.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Dec 16
I've traveled all over new England and know they are there but never saw one,,,,sadly.
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@JohnRoberts (109848)
• Los Angeles, California
20 Dec 16
I have never seen a moose in the wild. Just in a zoo.
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@nosleee3134 (214)
• United States
20 Dec 16
Question are moose skidish like a deer.though ive been to canada i have never seen a moose.
But whether i was inside or out the car while this licking was going on i would not wana be in that situation.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Dec 16
They are huge, I hope you got to see the video, the ones on the video were young and small compared to an adult. And no they are not as skidish as deer, they move pretty slow unless angry...
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Dec 16
Glad you liked it! If you are not living with snow, it might be hard to understand.
