VIDEO: Stubborn Moose Refuses To Leave Colorado Parking Garage
By Rebekah Gonzalez
August 2, 2021
A bull moose was found in a parking garage in Lionshead Village in Vail on Tuesday, July 27, reports KDVR.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officers were called in to remove the 2 to 3-year-old bull moose from the parking garage on Tuesday morning after it refused to leave.
According to officers, the animal seemed comfortable in the garage and had to be tranquilized before they attempted to move him. The wildlife officers were assisted by the Vali police department, the fire department, and Vali government officials.
CPW tweeted a video of the incident on Tuesday afternoon which you can watch below.
With a helping hand from @VailGov, @VailPolice & @VailFire, wildlife officers relocated this moose out of a parking structure in the Lionshead Village this morning. It will be released this afternoon in appropriate moose habitat outside of Craig.
— CPW NW Region (@CPW_NW) July 27, 2021
Details: https://t.co/qePXsN2f2V pic.twitter.com/AR3eQ0FhP9
"Everything went smoothly this morning, no issues,” Wildlife Officer Devin Duval said of the operation to tranquilize the bull in a news release. “We were definitely within that human health and safety realm where there could potentially be an injury to a human or the animal. That is the reason we decided to move it.”
According to the release, wildlife officers had been keeping an eye on that particular moose throughout the month of July.
“He was pretty regularly coming into the parking structure first thing in the morning and then would kind of clear out before it got too busy,” said Duval. “This is the primary parking place for the folks accessing Lionshead Village as well as the Vail Health hospital.”