Don't try to save lost-looking seal pups yourself, Vancouver Aquarium warns

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People are being warned not to take seal pups home in B.C. after the Vancouver Aquarium rescue centre noted an increase in people taking animals that don’t need rescuing.

The aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre explains that other inappropriate behavior included people feeding pups inappropriate food such as smoked oysters and chicken drumsticks.“People have observed these animals that they feel are in need of rescuing and gone about themselves to pick up the animals before actually calling into our centre,” the rescue’s manager Lindsay Akhurst told CTV News Vancouver.

Some would-be rescuers have been seen wrapping two newborn pups in cushion covers, while others have taken the animals from the coast all the way to their homes in central B.C. Akhurst stressed that if people see seal pups in need that they should stay back and immediately call the aquarium or the rescue centre directly.

 

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