Vanderhoof man rescued the calf after it got stuck upside down in the snow

A Vanderhoof man saved a moose calf last week, after it got stuck in a snowbank.

Wayne Rowley, who hauls logs for logging company Dalchako Timber, was driving the Kluskus Forest Service Road west of Vanderhoof heading to work when something in the snowbank made him do a double take.

鈥淚 came around the corner and it just caught my eye, 鈥榃hat is that sticking out of the snowbank?鈥� Curious me, I had to back up and have a look.

鈥淚t was a little moose upside down, stuck. I could just see his feet sticking up in the air.鈥�

Rowley initially thought the calf was dead, but he walked down into the snow to check.

鈥淚 couldn鈥檛 just leave him. I went a little closer and he looked up at me. 鈥極h, you鈥檙e still alive!鈥欌��

Rowley dug a hole beside the animal, to give it room to roll over and free itself.

鈥淗e was wedged in, so he couldn鈥檛 roll. I put a rope around his neck and was trying to tug him. I ended up calling the guy in the truck ahead of me back to help me pull him out.

鈥淲e got him up on his feet and he walked out of there. Down the road he went.鈥�

Seems it was the little moose鈥檚 lucky day, he adds.

鈥淗e would have died in there. We鈥檇 had about two feet of snow.鈥�

Rowley says he didn鈥檛 see any sign of the mother, but he hasn鈥檛 seen the calf on the road again, so he thinks they were reunited.

鈥淭hey must have hooked up. She would have tracked him down.鈥�