Is it possible to ride a moose?

Question

i was wondering if this is possible, because me and my friends were looking at bizarre pics on goole and we saw a moose in harness do u think its a possibility? because if theyre flight animals as are horses are would it be pretty similar to break them in or am i just being really stupid????

Answer 1

Wouldn't be possible in Scotland , LOL

Answer 2

I guess it's possible, if you had a really tame one.

Answer 3

There's no way you get a harness on a moose. If you could you'd break it's back when you sat down. Poor thing. Don't you think it's bad enough worrying about cats? Give them some cheese and leave them the h**l alone. If you're really small it's probably quite cute though!

Answer 4

i think u can ride it...........if it was trained specially, and it was gentle, and the rider isnt too heavy/light..........

all the same factors that go into riding a horse.

=)

Answer 5

if u domesticate it and get it used to having a saddle and if it is a good nature then then is not reason why u cant ride it

bit on the strange side id say tho :P

Answer 6

Domestic animals have been selectively bred for thousands of years to posses the traits we want, trainabliity being one of them.

If you look at very close relatives of domestic animals, like wolves, african hunting dogs or even Przewalski's Horse you will find that unlike the domesticated counterparts these animals are much much harder to train (if not impossible).

Moose are wild animals - big and sometimes very dangerous wild animals - so training one would be a huge and rather risky undertaking requiring far more time, persistence and patience than training a 'regular' horse.

Exceptions to wild animals being trained do of course happen, like the moose in harness or animals reared by humans so of course, it would be possible... if not a rather uncomfortable ride.

Answer 7

Ive ridden quite a few myself. But they were all good looking after 10 pints!!!!!

Answer 8

anything is possible if you believe

Answer 9

This opens up a whole world of possibilities. Moose racing. Moose show jumping. Moose rodeos.

Which makes me wonder, what is the plural of moose? Mooses? Moosii?

Answer 10

It's probably possible is you raise it from birth. But it would probably be really, really time consuming and really, really hard. o_O;

Answer 11

I think so

Answer 12

I ride moose all the time

Answer 13

Ridden loads of mooses after several beers....oops, different kind.

Answer 14

oh you silly girl !

made me laugh though !

Answer 15

Yes, but only if it's a moose brought up in a hoose.

Answer 16

LOl well its just like a big cow so why not lol

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Answer 17

I think it"s not possible that you can ride a moose because when you ride a moose the moose will get you out of him/her because it is not big like a horse.

Answer 18

Moose are deer and it is almost impossible to get the 'flight' response out of their system. They can't be domesticated (although there are occasionally tame ones) and so I doubt whether you could ever get one to accept a rider. In the neolithic people spent years trying to domesticate several kinds of deer, but they failed.

In any case I bet it would be really uncomfortable!