They say love is blind, even for an apparently frisky moose temporarily rendered sightless by a volleyball net.

Seems a wayward 2- to 3-year-old bull moose leaving his scent near Burgess Junction in the Big Horn Mountains on Labor Day got entangled in a volleyball net from a nearby campground, prompting worried campers to call in the services of two game wardens to help the moose see the light.

Turns out, the work of warden Tim Thomas and partner Alan Osterland was a net gain for everyone involved.

The moose apparently got the net entangled in its mature antlers and over its eyes, practically blindfolding the 800-pound beast in the process.

Thomas believes the moose was probably trying to leave its scent on a pole containing the volleyball net, as this is the time when a moose's libido is high.

After arriving on the scene that included a handful of onlookers near Prune Creek, Thomas and Osterland took their positions behind and in front of the moose, respectively.

Thomas fired a dart into the moose's left hip. Once the big boy fell, Thomas and Osterland took to cutting off the net and administering antibiotics.

Within half an hour, the moose was off, leaving the small crowd of onlookers awed.

"They were very interested and very concerned about how we were going to handle this," Thomas said.

Camper Nancy Jenny seemed impressed at the net work being done.

"It couldn't have been done better," she said in a statement to the state Game and Fish Department.

It was just another day for Thomas, who has worked the Sheridan area for a decade. It's the second time he's seen a moose get its cranium stuck in a volleyball net.

Thomas has seen stranger things. His office is decorated with a string of Christmas tree lights once worn by a mule deer that took a wrong turn.

"We see this kind of thing on a yearly basis," he said, adding that the moose caper "was just another day of work for us."

The moose should be able to resume his networking duties unencumbered now, Thomas said.

"He should be just fine."