Pick Up Your Trash, People!

We humans need to think about animals more often.  For example, this tire stuck on the neck of a female, possibly pregnant elk in Colorado.  

Wildlife officials say the elk—nicknamed The Tired Elk by residents–can do everything it needs to do, such as eat, breathe and run. They don’t want to tranquilize the animal to remove the tire because they fear the elk is pregnant. Tranquilizing the animal can be traumatic and could do harm to the calf.

This isn’t the first time an elk has ended up wearing an unwanted accessory. An elk lived six years with the ring of a dog’s feeding dish around its neck. There was an elk four years ago that somehow got a bar stool stuck on its head. A bar stool?

According to a CNN report, elementary students were tasked with coming up with an explanation. One student suggested the elk had too much to drink at a local bar, fell off its stool and somehow got the stool stuck on its head.

So, how did this elk manage to get a tire around its neck?

One woman suggested that some kids did it as a prank, but her husband dismissed the idea because they wouldn’t dare get that close to the wild animal. But is there a better explanation? Hmmm.

~David Strege

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Cow's head stuck in ladder.

Skunk with a peanut butter jar stuck on it's head

Poor guys.  

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