She and her 3 friends were playing on some big snow piles when her friend said, "deer!", Shyler said she looked over and saw it and said, "That's an Elk!" (I'm sure that made Cole SO proud that his daughter knew the difference...they've been out spotting together quite a bit lately)..anyways Shyler claimed the elk was charging them...really what was happening I'm sure is that the poor animal was confused and lost in a residential area and trying to get back to the mountains!
She said it ran into the road (a main road at the bottom of a hill) and a car slammed into it, throwing it into the windshield. She said the antlers went through the windshield. A teenager was driving and jumped out of the car freaking out. Shyler told me, "I asked him if he was ok, and he said yes"... How adorable she was worried how he was. Anyway, I guess that the kid called the police and Shyler and her friends hung out a while. She said the elk was alive, but flailing it's legs a bit. The friend's brothers went down after the girls ran home and said the elk was up and running at that point. Shyler is pretty worried if the elk is ok or not. I assured her that he was probably fine, and the police took it back to the mountains. She said she hoped they took it somewhere they could put it to sleep for a couple hours and then return it to the mountains. So cute... Truthfully though, who knows what happened, but if it got up itself, I'm sure they didn't put it down....maybe they tried to herd it back to the canyon...
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oh no, that would be kind of hard to see - I hope he's okay!!
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