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stupid people with dogs get too close to moose for whatever reason

I'm a animal lover, had all kinds of critters when growing up.
Somewhere the idea that a pet was animal ( smart/loyal as they may be) to the idea that somehow their just like/equal to their masters, more like human friends than animal companions.

That's why you see people owning animals they have no business having ( chimps/ bears/ exotic cats/poisonous/constrictor snakes etc) because somehow they think their wild animal will somehow ignore it's DNA and act like they ( the human) want them too. :-?

It's why you have people killed/mauled daily by so called friendly animals and their owners acting like they're the victims.

I still have a scar on my right wrist from my short lived UPS driver days.
I yell UPS, knock of enclosed porch outer screen door, package in hand.
Lady opens inner door with 2 huge dogs not that she could of controlled them anyway.
1 was a Lab/German Shepherd mix, the 2 was a full blooded Great Dane.
They're throwing all their weight at the screen door and while I'm holding the door with foot and right shoulder, the Great Dane sticks it's head thru open lite panel and latches onto my right wrist, puncturing it thru with it's canine teeth.
The pain was terrible but somehow I managed to pull free.

By that time sleeping husband has come and pulled dogs back inside.
Blood is pouring out of my wrist and it's swollen the size of a loaf of bread.
I still had package in hand but was close to being in shock.
Lady asked me IF I wanted to come inside and was off the "scratch" and she'd give me a band-aid.

I said call the police and drove myself over to the local hospital about a mile away in the stick shift baggage car, no power steering, one handed with the 4-way flashers going.
Ended up losing job, suing homeowners but all in all I barely broke even after it was all said and done.

At court deposition, she testified that her "kids" had never shown aggression to anyone else, I must of done something to make them act like guard dogs are supposed too. ::)

Best part of those wild animal stories are when the owners get what they deserve for being so stupid they don't think their dogs will do what Nature has programmed it to do. ;)