Seal Won't Leave His Rescuer!
Each rescue is different and the rescue team needs to be on high alert at all times to avoid injuries to themselves and the animal. Entangled seals are already compromised and feel threatened, and we can't blame them: we do hunt them down, pin them to the ground, and poke around in often painful and infected wounds. Some seals have a completely different reaction to the rescue, and in rare occasions like on this day, they seem calm and stay around, as if they wanted to hang out for a while.
Seals aren't pets and we never encourage unnecessary interaction, but we still enjoy human moments like this one very much.
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Animal rescue is hard and takes time. I learnt that even with kittens and that’s the easiest type- unlike wild animals. Most animals meet so many self-serving or malicious humans that it takes them time to become more trustful.
The humans involved in rescue are some of the nicest humans out there, but animals don’t know that. Being animals/feral and all…for all they know it could be a Bolsanaro out to make a purse out of their fur or something horrific like that..
I saw a thing on Pangolin trafficking a while back..really vile. And routine factory farming is a horror.
On a pleasanter note, I saw this a few years ago somewhere on the net-some place in the global south. Some type of feline that had fallen down a well. Some cool people fished it out.
I like the look on its face. It looks kinda rueful like it knows it made an ass of itself (falling down a well and all) ;-/:
