Young fur seal slipped into marine biologist’s home through a catflap before spending more than two hours inside
A curious young seal has been returned to the sea after breaking into ahome, harassing the resident cat, hanging about in the hallway for a couple of hours while the children slept upstairs, and miraculously ruining nothing.
Phil Ross, who happens to be a marine biologist, said it was unfortunate he was the only one not home at the time.“The big joke is that this is really the only family emergency where it would be useful to have a marine biologist in the house,” he said. “I really missed my time to shine.”“As she got in the car, something barked from underneath and shuffled away. She thought it was someone’s dog … and didn’t really think too much of it.
“The cat would have gone to defend its territory and obviously the seal wasn’t as intimidated as some dogs are, so Coco must have bolted around the side of the house, into the catflap, and the seal must have followed her.”Jenn woke their two children, Noah, 12, and Ari, 10, to come and see “their new pet”.
The seal spent time in the spare room and on the couch before Jenn managed to usher it out the front door and into the garden. A Department of Conservation ranger turned up at 10am to take the seal back to the sea, after a busy morning of seal-related call-outs.
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