B.C. man fired from job after saving moose calf on the highway

“Her and I kind of bonded on the ride home. I mean, shucks, we had like five and a half hours in the pickup truck together.”

It’s always nice to have company on a long road trip — but in this case, a Fort Nelson, B.C., man says he found himself the unexpected companion of a moose calf, who willingly hopped into the passenger seat of his truck to escape the jaws of a waiting black bear.

But Mark Skage said he was fired for the act. His employer, AFD Petroleum Inc., let him go for breaking wildlife protocols.

Skage told CBC News he was travelling north of Fort Nelson when he noticed the

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