'You're a moose whisperer': Sask. woman lauded for freeing calf from fence

A Saskatchewan woman stopped to rescue a stranded baby on her way to work earlier this week.

A baby moose, that is.

Jodean Howie was driving to a potash mine northwest of Rocanville, Sask., on Wednesday afternoon.

She saw a mother moose with a baby and stopped to take a photograph.

But when she rolled down her window, she heard crying and found a twin calf stuck in the fence.

"Her left leg was tightly wound between two twists. It looked like she might have tried to jump through the fence and then slipped through it so it twisted it," Howie told CBC Radio'sThe Morning Edition host Sheila Coles.

Howie saidwhen she was sure the mother wasn't going to charge at her,she got down to work on the calf's leg.

At first, she was unable to free the leg from the taut wire, but then Howie noticed it was attached to a gate.

"I quickly undid the gate and laid the gate down, which gave some slack to the wire, and opened up the wire and pulled out her leg," Howie said.

"She bounced right up," and ran off to join her mother and sibling,Howiesaid.

Howiecontinued on to work, where she says her co-workers at the mine have been sharing in her joy at the experience.

"They're just like, 'Oh my God, you're a hero, you're a moose whisperer,'" she said.

"It's all been good."