A moose cow and calf faced off with a Prince George, B.C., resident on Sunday. (Photo submitted by Mona Ayer)

A Prince George, B.C., man suffered only minor injuries when he was trampled by a moose on the weekend.

The middle-aged man was trying to call off his dogs when the moose attacked, according to conservation officer Todd Hunter.

The moose and her calf were roaming in a wooded residential area behind the Wal-Mart in the B.C. Interior city and had already fended off the two dogs.

When the dogs' owner tried to catch up with his canines to call them off, the moose cow charged the man.

"He was kind of blindsided by it. I think it happened pretty quick and I think he obviously felt shocked," said Hunter.

The man's forearm, hip and calf were injured in the attack, but he didn't need to be hospitalized.

"This person is lucky they didn't receive serious or life-threatening injuries. They can inflict a lot of damage," Hunter said about the moose attack.

Conservation officers were not able to track down the cow and calf after the incident.

Moose attacks are very uncommon, according to Hunter, but they do occur. In 2007, a Prince George woman was injured by a moose while walking her dog. In that incident, the moose killed the dog.

Conservation officers said moose are in the city looking for food, and advised people to keep their distance from the animals and keep dogs on a short leash.