An odd find, even for Marine View!
BABY SEAL IS DISCOVERED AMONG THE PLANT POTS
THIS little lost seal was found hiding in plant pots outside a home on the Northumberland coast.
A shocked woman found the seal pup when she opened her front door on Marine View in Seaton Sluice on Tuesday morning.
The young pup was relaxing on its side by the plants, but the house was just yards away from a busy 30mph road.
The woman decided to ring the police and community support officers Pail Moorhead and Beverley Keenleyside turned up and began to come up with a plan of how to get the seal back to safety.
Paul said: “When the sergeant asks you to go to a job like this you tend to think he’s pulling your leg.
“So when we turned up at the property it was a bit of a shock for us to find the seal pup lounging on some plant pots and having a bit of a sun bath.
“I’ll be honest, we didn’t really know what to do with it and I was half thinking of putting it in the back of my patrol car.”
After a few minutes of head-scratching they were able to recruit the help of the local branch of volunteer organisation British Divers Marine Life Rescue.
They arrived along with the RSPCA and provided the dehydrated seal pup with fluids before moving the animal closer to the sea. “It was a happy ending all round and the seal pup was able to return to the rest of his family, who were swimming nearby,” said Paul.
“Policing Northumberland has many challenges and the beauty of the area is these kind of jobs do come along every once in a while.”
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I’ll be honest, we didn’t really know what to do with it and I was half thinking of putting it in the back of my patrol car