A man in rural Alberta says he spent the first few months of the year watching the news in the company of a herd of moose, and capturing it all on video.
Pierre Bolduc says he has several hours of footage of moose standing outside the window of his living room, recorded between January and March of this year. Bolduc says the moose have grown comfortable approaching his home, and he frequently records them while the evening newscast is running on TV.
An online video of one of these encounters shows a moose calmly munching at a pile of hay by the window, while a news anchor can be heard speaking about the Edmonton Oilers.
"It was completely set up that way," Bolduc told CTVNews.ca on Tuesday. He explained that he leaves hay by the window to draw the moose to his property. Bolduc says he's had up to seven moose present at one time at his home near Bragg Creek, Alta.
On one occasion, Bolduc says a moose acted like a "guard dog," blocking a visitor from approaching the home. Bolduc had to shoo the animal away before the visitor could approach the house, he said.
And if watching the news with a moose doesn't sound Canadian enough, Bolduc says he also hauls old logs down to a creek nearby, so the beavers living on his property can use the wood to build dams.
Bolduc says the moose haven't been around as often, now that spring has arrived.
