Moose!!!! (Or is it mooses? Or meese?)

This morning, I was checking my email when suddenly I noticed something dark and lumbering out of the corner of my eye. There were three female moose munching on trees right outside my window! Luckily I had my camera at the desk and I started clicking away. Unlike most other wild animals, the moose weren't frightened by me or the camera at all, and posed very nicely for me! Soon, I realized that it was time to go to Norwegian class but there were still three huge animals of unknown temperament in my yard. Good thing I'm very clever--I know that moose like apples, so I grabbed several from the fridge and threw them towards the moose as I raced for the car. Sadly, I throw like a girl and the apples fell about 30 feet short of the moose, and the creatures just stared at me in befuddlement, chomping on their twigs. I'm pretty sure I heard one of them mutter, "Crazy American!" as I sped away. I was about 5 minutes late to class, so I explained to the teacher (in Norwegian) that I was late because there were three moose in my yard and I was scared to leave the house. Except that I didn't know what the word for moose was in Norwegian, so I just said "moose." The word "moose" sounds the same as "mus" which means "mouse" in Norwegian, so the teacher thought that I was late to class because I was scared of three mice in my yard. Thankfully, I now know that a moose is an "elg", so at least next time I'm held hostage in my house, no one will think it was due to rodents!