SPCA rescued a wandering seal in Athlone and safely released it into the ocean
The Cape of Good Hope SPCA Wildlife Department reported that they received a call about a Cape fur seal crossing the busy Jakes Gerwel Drive opposite the Vangate Mall in Athlone on Wednesday morning.
PICTURE: Cape of GoodHope SPCAThis is after Cape Town resident noticed the seal on, the
busy intersection at Klipfontein. SPCA Chief Inspector Jaco Pieterse and
Inspector Lwazi Ntungele said that they found a large adult female Cape Fur
Seal wandering about into traffic, while attracting a crowd that had quickly
came to a halt to allow the seal to cross over safely. The seal was unharmed
and safely released at Lagoon Beach in Milnerton.
SPCA stated that they are unsure how the seal got so far
from the ocean will remain a mystery. Although they believe it might have swum
into a canal and was washed further away by strong currents, or that it was
intended to be an unusual Christmas gift for someone’s mother-in-law and then
merely dumped when its captor saw the price of fish!
“Either way, Santa the Seal (as she was named by
onlookers), skipped into the water and swam off with a wave of her flipper, her
Christmas shopping will have to wait.”
By: Everngelista Muza
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