When Chelsea Coles opened her door on Monday morning, she took some time to discover what was happening.
Despite temperatures well below -30 C when taking into account wind cooling, a heat explosion hit it.
And then he saw Alce.
“I scared it, the shit scared me, jumped back, jumped and the cover was really slippery, so he slid everywhere,” said Coles, speaking from his home in Fort St. John, in Northeast of BC
“He could have contacted her and touched her,” although what he really did was “hit the door and shout. It was scary.”
But Coles had to continue with its day, so he grabbed a shovel and began to avoid Alce. Finally, he began to go along the way, which meant that the problem was solved, or so he thought.
“I arrived home and she was caressed, lying at the door of my house again,” said Colles.
He called at the service of the conservation officer, who told him that as long as Elce was not aggressive, he should wait for him.
And so Coles did it, sitting in his car for an hour in icy climate, hoping that he will eventually move. He also took some photos and published them on Facebook, looking for advice.
“Everyone was like, ‘you have to make noise,” he said, so he found an extension cable and started hitting him.
“I didn’t like it … I wasn’t being aggressive, but it happened next to me, on my entrance path and I had something left.”
Radio to the west6:42An alce that was not loose, but at the door of a resident of Fort St John, we will listen to the story
An alce that was not loose, but at the door of a resident of Fort St John, we will listen to the story
That was not yet the end, since Alce continued to spin for other “six or seven hours” in his patio and in his neighbor’s house, eating part of a tree before he finally returned to the forest.
According to Wildsafe BC, the Provincial Conservation Foundation, the Alces are generally not aggressive and tend to avoid urban areas, but may be attracted to gardens and trees as a source of food.
Most of the alces lesions are caused by collisions of vehicles, but the animals can represent a danger if they are threatened, with a weight of between 300 and 600 kilograms and up to two meters high, twice larger than a brown bear.
Animals are not a rare view in northern BC, particularly around Fort St. John, which is surrounded by desert.
Wildsafe says that he should never approach the Ambs and that he is always given an escape route, warning that they can move quickly and lower their heads and will flatten their ears before loading.
Coles said he never worried that he lifters her, and kept his distance with the nearby car.
In general, he said, Alce seemed to be very healthy, so he has hopes with the warm -up of the weather, his surprise visitor will remain in nature.
“She was definitely very pretty.”
