SALTY

SAVE OUR SEALS

SALTY

Salty, a common seal pup, was only a few of hours old when he was rescued by Julie and Marcus, part of our rescue team, on the 4th of May 2003. Julie and Marcus were walking along the beach on the Horsey Side of the Winterton Haul-out, when they came across a fluffy seal pup, they thought he was dead, but all of a sudden he stirred. Marcus protected Salty, while Julie contacted Harry. With the rescue equipment on the way, Julie and Marcus covered Salty to protect him, as he was obviously premature and likely to die.
Salty, a premature common seal pup As they waited, passers-by told them to leave it, "as it will be dead by the morning", but we are here to save our seals and while there is hope, we will do our best to rescue and care for injured and abandoned pups.
Within half an hour, Salty was on his way to the SOS hospital, where Harry quickly put Salty under a heat lamp as the pup's temperature was low, and also tidied up his umbilical cord. He weighed just 4kgs. Salty is being tube feed with a special milk mixture and vitamins every 4 hours, with our volunteers working around the clock to care for such a fragile patient. It is unusual for a common seal pup to be born with white fur, as they shed this before birth. Common seal pups are normally born in the water, so Salty was lucky to get to the beach and be found by one of our rescue teams.

If you would like to make a donation to Save Our Seals,

please make cheques/postal orders payable to "Winterton Seal Hospital".

Our Postal Address is :-

Save Our Seals
Low Farm,
Winterton-on-Sea
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk NR29 4AW
England

Save Our Seals / seals@saveourseals.co.uk

Salty, a common seal pup, was only a few of hours old when he was rescued by Julie and Marcus, part of our rescue team, on the 4th of May 2003. Julie and Marcus were walking along the beach on the Horsey Side of the Winterton Haul-out, when they came across a fluffy seal pup, they thought he was dead, but all of a sudden he stirred. Marcus protected Salty, while Julie contacted Harry. With the rescue equipment on the way, Julie and Marcus covered Salty to protect him, as he was obviously premature and likely to die.
	As they waited, passers-by told them to leave it, "as it will be dead by the morning", but we are here to save our seals and while there is hope, we will do our best to rescue and care for injured and abandoned pups.
Within half an hour, Salty was on his way to the SOS hospital, where Harry quickly put Salty under a heat lamp as the pup's temperature was low, and also tidied up his umbilical cord. He weighed just 4kgs. Salty is being tube feed with a special milk mixture and vitamins every 4 hours, with our volunteers working around the clock to care for such a fragile patient. It is unusual for a common seal pup to be born with white fur, as they shed this before birth. Common seal pups are normally born in the water, so Salty was lucky to get to the beach and be found by one of our rescue teams.