Women, dog survive close moose encounter

boulder county»Linda Lund was weeding the garden in front of her Boulder County home on June 2, her beloved threelegged 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 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. 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.

Rickertt said the moose brought a hoof down on her head — she has the black eye and seven stitches on her forehead as proof — and stomped her again as she backed away.

She dropped to the ground and caught one more hoof in the back before she was able to crawl along a car parked in the driveway. The moose left the area when one of her calves walked away.

Paul Aiken, Daily Camera Linda Lund, left, and Irene Rickertt stand outside their home, west of Jamestown, on Friday. The two were attacked by a moose cow in the yard of their home.