The animal, which appeared to be a juvenile, drew onlookers in the rain as it wandered through traffic circles and sidewalks on Prospect Street. Fredericton police followed the animal as it passed restaurants and grocery stores on the street. Prospect is a mostly treeless commercial area of fast food restaurants and retail stores near the leafy outer edges of the city’s south side. The moose finally calmed down and moved away from the city. (Shane Fowler/CBC News) The moose was eventually corralled by police, public safety officers and maintenance workers between a shed and freeway fencing behind Fredericton’s Uptown Centre, behind Sobeys and Goodlife Fitness Centre. Rangers arrived at the mall to assess the situation and were able to tranquilize the moose and load it into a trailer. “A decision was made to tranquilize the young moose by the department’s highly trained staff,” Natural Resources spokesman Nick Brown said in an email. “Once the one-year-old cow moose calmed down, it was taken to a wooded area, where it was released without incident.”
