oldfilmsflicker:

 

New Zealander Annette Swoffer got the surprise of her life when she found a baby seal in her kitchen, who later began to snooze on her couch, the New Zealand Herald reports.
According to the report, the seal wandered from the bay waterfront, through a residential area, across busy roads, under a gate, through a cat door, and up some stairs before he was found at around 9:30 p.m.
SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS/VIDEO
“I thought ‘I’m hallucinating, this is just wrong,’” Swoffer told the paper. “Then it looks at me with those huge brown eyes. It was so cute…”
Swoffer then called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), who called the Department of Conservation. According to a report by Stuff.co.nz, the department was already looking for the pup.
When biodiversity program manager Chris Clark came to pick up the animal, he told Swoffer he’d been looking for the seal all afternoon and that it had likely just been weaned from its mother.
Department of Conservation’s Katrina Knill elaborated on the state of the New Zealand fur seal population in an email to The Huffington Post:
“NZ fur seal populations are starting to recover in the western Bay of Plenty, and are believed to be breeding on Motuanau (Plate) Island, which is approximately 12km offshore. 
At this time of year, young seals are dispersing from the rookeries. Seal pups may often spend days at a time alone, whilst the mother is away foraging for food.
Seals usually occupy rocky shores in places that have some protection from heavy seas and are often found resting on Bay of Plenty beaches.
Occasionally they travel inland (usually via estuaries and waterways). When on land they can become disoriented and have been found on previous occasions in unexpected places such as backyards, drains and streets.
Seals are wild animals and the Department’s policy is to return them to the care of their natural habitat.”
Knill went on to write that seals can carry infectious diseases and injure humans, so members of the public should contact authorities (0800DOCHOT in NZ) if they see a seal in trouble or in an odd location. Click here to learn more about New Zealand’s fur seals.

Baby Seal Enters House, Sleeps On Couch

oldfilmsflicker:

New Zealander Annette Swoffer got the surprise of her life when she found a baby seal in her kitchen, who later began to snooze on her couch, the New Zealand Herald reports.

According to the report, the seal wandered from the bay waterfront, through a residential area, across busy roads, under a gate, through a cat door, and up some stairs before he was found at around 9:30 p.m.

SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS/VIDEO

“I thought ‘I’m hallucinating, this is just wrong,’” Swoffer told the paper. “Then it looks at me with those huge brown eyes. It was so cute…”

Swoffer then called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), who called the Department of Conservation. According to a report by Stuff.co.nz, the department was already looking for the pup.

When biodiversity program manager Chris Clark came to pick up the animal, he told Swoffer he’d been looking for the seal all afternoon and that it had likely just been weaned from its mother.

Department of Conservation’s Katrina Knill elaborated on the state of the New Zealand fur seal population in an email to The Huffington Post:

“NZ fur seal populations are starting to recover in the western Bay of Plenty, and are believed to be breeding on Motuanau (Plate) Island, which is approximately 12km offshore.

At this time of year, young seals are dispersing from the rookeries. Seal pups may often spend days at a time alone, whilst the mother is away foraging for food.

Seals usually occupy rocky shores in places that have some protection from heavy seas and are often found resting on Bay of Plenty beaches.

Occasionally they travel inland (usually via estuaries and waterways). When on land they can become disoriented and have been found on previous occasions in unexpected places such as backyards, drains and streets.

Seals are wild animals and the Department’s policy is to return them to the care of their natural habitat.”

Knill went on to write that seals can carry infectious diseases and injure humans, so members of the public should contact authorities (0800DOCHOT in NZ) if they see a seal in trouble or in an odd location. Click here to learn more about New Zealand’s fur seals.

Source: The Huffington Post
  1. welizabethcarole reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  2. edieskywalker reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  3. whimsicalwalnut reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  4. itsnatureshithappens reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker and added:
    new pet. done. let this happen to meee
  5. madhatt reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  6. stillshot reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  7. gonshiro reblogged this from dontrblgme
  8. madein92 reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  9. dontrblgme reblogged this from slowleaner
  10. nightsinwonderland reblogged this from grief-bacon
  11. slowleaner reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  12. ironwine reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  13. summerelephants reblogged this from gypsywanderlust
  14. stillruthless reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  15. ikeeephavingdreams reblogged this from iwearglassesiliketv
  16. fifties-slang reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  17. blondeblasphemer reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  18. ishoot-thelights-out reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  19. and-all-of-that reblogged this from oldfilmsflicker
  20. theshadowofyourheart reblogged this from iwearglassesiliketv
  21. grief-bacon reblogged this from sheercalculatedsilliness and added:
    why don’t good things ever happen to me
  22. themisguidedophelia reblogged this from tatirex
  23. tatirex reblogged this from just-dig-a-little-deeper