“Why don’t exotic ranches have moose in Texas? Is it too hot?”
That’s a question I recently got from a reader and it’s a good one.
There are animals from all over the planet in Texas on exotic ranches and yet I have never heard of a moose being hunted.
There was at least in the mid 2000s, a man raising moose west of Fort Worth. I’ll keep the name of the facility out of the story as it seems there are no longer moose there but there were plenty of photos and several people online posting about this a few years back.
My guess is Texas is too hot for moose to thrive. As temperatures warm in the north, they are having huge problems in the Upper Midwest including being inundated with ticks.
It is possible someone with little knowledge of wildlife could see a doe Pere David’s deer which are present on several Texas ranches and think they were a moose. They are larger than a whitetail and have a long face and frequently cover themselves in mud but currently as far as we know there are no moose in Texas.
