No doubt pregnant women get some pretty intense cravings that feel like they must be satisfied. My entire first pregnancy was a constant search for the perfect slice of white cake. Weird, but a lot easier to come by than the craving 22-year-old Ashley Switzer of Homer, Alaska had on September 8, while eight and a half months pregnant. She was craving meat, but her freezer was empty and her husband was off on a fishing boat far away, so she decided to go get herself meat. Not just any meat either, moose meat. Oh and she didn't go to the grocery store to buy it either. Nope, she went hunting for it.
Wait until you see what she got!
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Ashley, borrowed a rifle. She says, "It was my dad's .270 (caliber rifle) because my husband took my .30-06." I don't know nothin' about hunting, but apparently that's not the kind of weapon you take to go hunt moose. Then there are these moose-hunting rules that have to be followed–about the size of antlers and so forth in order to legally kill a moose. Somehow with the wrong kind of gun and with all the rules to follow and even though she had never successfully killed a moose before she managed to kill a 600 pound cow moose.
Then this very pregnant mama-to-be found herself with the dilemma of how to get the moose home. She called her father and asked him to take the day off work to help her get that meat she'd been craving back home. Of course he did, because he's her dad, she's SUPER pregnant and she's got a 600-pound dead moose to deal with.
I'm not a big fan of hunting and wouldn't do it myself, but I do eat meat and theoretically I have no problem with people hunting if they are going to consume the animal, so even though I'm trying to be horrified that Ashley killed such a large animal, I'm really more impressed than anything. I could hardly walk get myself to the supermarket to buy meat for dinner when I was that pregnant, I certainly would not have tried to go procure it in the wild.
No disrespect intended to the moose that lost its life, but really it never had a chance because a pregnant woman will do what a pregnant woman has to do to fulfill a craving.
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