POCATELLO — Idaho Fish and Game personnel tranquilized and then relocated a moose on Tuesday that had been roaming a north Pocatello neighborhood.
Pocatello police issued a news release about the cow moose on Tuesday morning stating that the animal was wandering around in the Churchill Downs neighborhood in north Pocatello.
Police told residents not to approach the moose under any circumstances and to keep dogs in the neighborhood on leashes.
The moose was then spotted on Tuesday afternoon by local residents at the Bannock County Event Center fairgrounds just north of the Churchill Downs neighborhood.
Idaho Fish and Game personnel responded and found the moose between the fairgrounds and the Portneuf Wellness Complex.
The moose was shot with a tranquilizer gun by Fish and Game around 4 p.m. just south of the wellness complex and the animal then wandered into a nearby large pool of water formed by Tuesday’s rain where it became incapacitated.
Fish and Game personnel with help from Bannock County sheriff’s deputies and local citizens carried the moose from the water into a waiting Fish and Game trailer.
The animal was then transported to a remote location outside of Pocatello where it was set free, Fish and Game said.