{"id":387367,"date":"2026-01-04T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:11:19","slug":"moose-charges-man-getting-mail-in-alaska-dogs-step-in-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387367\/","title":{"rendered":"Moose Charges Man Getting Mail in Alaska, Dogs Step in to Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Fairbanks, Alaska stepped outside to get his mail and didn\u2019t notice a large moose staring him down from a short distance away. The moose charged at him, and the man\u2019s tiny dog tried to take on the moose to protect his owner . . . and, it worked!<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/turn-around-clueless-hikers-walk-past-giant-moose-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u2018TURN AROUND!\u2019 Clueless Hikers Walk Past Giant Moose (Video)<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This viral video from 2022 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DSueadcjWwi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">still circulating on social media<\/a>. It shows the moose charge the man, the dog barking fiercely at the moose, and the man trying to call his dog off. It\u2019s an intense moment captured by a security camera, and, thankfully, no person or animal got hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Watch as a moose charges an Alaska man getting his mail:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Carlos Carreno\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in Fairbanks, Alaska stepped outside to get his mail and didn\u2019t notice a large moose staring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3292,5710,79,201,41629],"class_list":["post-387367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alaska","tag-moose","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}