HAMILTON - Rinnan Zohner wants Hamilton residents to know there's a moose on the loose.

She and her daughter, Grace, had a chance to see it up close and personal Thursday morning.

It was still dark at 6 a.m. when the pair left their home on Third Street for an early morning jog. They took their little schnauzer named Buttons along.

"My daughter is working to get in shape for track," Zohner said. "We were kind of groggy and really didn't want to do it."

They started speed walking to get their blood pumping and were hurrying by a house that's for sale on Third Street just north of Grove Street when Buttons let out a bark.

"Right in front of us, out jumps this moose," Zohner said. "It all happened so fast. It was like five feet away from us."

For an instant, the four stared at each other.

And then Buttons barked again.

"I think that scared it," she said. "It started running away from us to the north."

That's when Zohner saw the man step out of his house with the moose bearing down on him.