STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK
PHOTO BY JACK MCCULLOUGH
We’ve seen and heard of plenty of bears raiding the garbage. But a few days ago Jack McCullough caught a lady elk munching on Christmas dinner leftovers from a garbage can on Juniper Road in Elkhorn.
Amidst the heavy snows, a dinner of turkey, cranberry sauce and green bean casserole was apparently just too good to pass up!
On average an elk eats about three pounds of food a day for every hundred pounds It weighs. So, a female cow that weighs between 500 and 600 pounds can easily put away 15 to 18 pounds.
Given that, let’s hope there was leftover pizza in the garbage, as well!