18. The First Encounter
The story of the later inseparable duo begins when Erikas came home one day to a rather unusual sight – a baby moose lying abandoned right outside of his gate. The little female moose couldn’t have been more than 2 weeks old.”The first sight of her was heartbreaking,” Plucas, told The Dodo. “She was starved, dirty, sad, her fur was infested with flies, and she was so terrified of me when she first saw me but was too weak to run away, to even get up.” There was no other mooses in sight and no indication that she was able to go and find her mother. Erikas worried that if he left the little moose outside his gate that she would be picked up by hunters or attract other predators.