You know its hot when...
 

:D

That's a thing of beauty!

I want a moose in my pool!

Now, all that moose needs is a Moosedrool brewski and he's set.

You know it's hot when...

Moose start shrinking down to the size of soda-pop caps.

Ive never actually seen one. for those of us who havent, here's one for scale

Looking closely at the first picture on top it look appears that the moose is peeing into the pool.

So maybe it isn't hot but rather cold and it likes the warmth of stewing in its own urine. Probably just a trick of lighting but that's the story I've decided on.

Maybe water has the same effect on the moose as it can have on people and by stepping in it he had to go pee.

Or, well, not as nice an idea, all animals need some sort of water to pee in and use all of the lakes, rivers, and streams as their potties.

It is a beautiful animal, though. And oh my gosh, HUGE!!!! They can do some serious damage, from what I've heard.

I was in the Grand Tetons with my parents and my dog (a Westie ;)). We were walking along the shores of Sting Lake, which is long and narrow (hence the name). I came around a bend to find a bug bull moose standing in the river chomping on river grass. My first thought was of the Dinosaur in the Primeval World diorama at Disneyland. My next thought was "my he's huge". He sauntered away, thank God!

Hey, that's where I saw my one and only Moose! We were on a family vacation there in a cabin, my mom woke up and looked at the big picture window to see a huge moose staring in at us as if to say:

[Bullwinkle Voice]"Oh, looky. A human cage full of humans...how interesting!" [/Bullwinkle]

My mom screamed at the top of her lungs, the moose screamed in response (more of a beller, actually) and the rest of us jumped up just in time to see a moose butt high tailing it out of there!

Did the moose butt take the rest of the moose with it?