Linda Lund was weeding the garden in front of her Boulder County home on June 2, her beloved three-legged pit bull, Paris, sitting across the driveway waiting for chipmunks to emerge from under a large rock when she felt what she describes as “a presence.”
It was a moose, the surly overlord of the woods.
“She was literally right there, and she had two babies,” Lund said. “I knew I was screwed.”
She said the moose ran after Paris — it was initially reported that Paris was barking, but Lund insists her dog never barks — and she saw her dog underneath the large beast, which she said attacked the dog three times.
“I ran,” Lund said. “That’s when she hoofed me. I was moving so it wasn’t full force, but at one point I was under her.”
Lund, 64, made it behind two large wooden posts in front of her home, and the moose followed her as is evidenced by the shards of a clay planter that the animal stomped.
She saw Paris — who emerged unscathed after the moose attacked her three times — under the moose’s feet, and Lund’s screams brought 60-year-old Irene Rickertt out the door of the home they share to see what was happening.
“It all happened so quick,” she said. “The baby came right up, and I thought, ‘Where there’s a baby, there’s mom.’ I turned and said, ‘Oh (expletive).'”
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