Save our seals

(PHOTO: CORNISH SEALS)

If you or I were to have a dire sense of direction, there are any number of navigational aids we could purchase to help us out. But seals don’t have no TomToms, so when they got lost oh boy do they get lost. Like Sahara the seal. UK readers can get an intro into his life story thus far from BBC News here.

Cute as he looks in that picture, it should be said that he’s meant to look more like this while he’s a baby, or this when he grows up.

Anyway, first discovered lost on a boiling beach in the Canary Islands, fat, bald and poorly (as he looks in the picture above), he was nursed back to health in a Cornwall sanctuary and released. But he somehow managed to get lost again, this time ending up in Spain.

Sahara is a hooded seal who belongs in the Arctic, tropical paradise beaches are his idea of hell not heaven. The vets tasked with fixing him up the 2nd time around know that it’s him because they fitted him with a tag when they sent him off after his first beaching experience. Internet users could visit Sahara’s homepage to find out where he was on a daily basis, but nobody expected him to get lost again so soon. While the sanctuary staff are no doubt pleased to see their little boomerang back again, they now have to decide whether or not to let him go again. He deserves to be out in the open sea, if he can be trusted to not maroon himself in warmer climes yet again.