Archive | January 8, 2012

Please Consider The Costs Of Seal Rescue

Please Consider The Costs Of Seal Rescue. As many of you will have read and even some of you rescued, seals pups have been stranding in their hundreds these past few months. Being the only facility of its kind to assist these seals, the burden of funding these costs rests on my shoulders. Its a very costly undertaking. A big bull will need to eat 20kg of fish a day to recover over months, and a pup will consume 6-8kg daily, Currently I am using 30 boxes of 5kg pilchards per day to feed the rescued seals, costing me R1800 or $225 US dollars a day. Its a living nightmare for one individual to try and fund this himself daily. I have just ordered 6tons which should last me the next few weeks which will require payment of R71 820 or $8,977. Appealing for a big sponsorship is just not the way to go. As its daily, monthly and constant, the best way to fund this is, if we all contribute a little each month. Please consider a $20 contribution to my paypal account to assist in saving these precious seal lives. Without US there is no-one, and as we know, if we dont help they die. I simply hate asking, what what alternative is there, stop rescue? Please consider this a monthly appeal. – Francois Hugo

 

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Loyalty and Bond of Cape Fur Seals Sometimes Truly Amazing

Loyalty and Bond of Cape Fur Seals Sometimes Truly Amazing. About two years ago I was called to rescue a baby seal pup that had wondered into a fishing factory and was found asleep on the second floor. We bonded instantly, and he became known as Monday. Monday has developed and grown well, but has grown so close he seldom leaves my side 24-7. When I leave the centre to go home, he cries and wants to go with. So instead he curls up on the ramp to my entrance, and awaits my return in the morning. This concrete ramp has become his little concrete seal island, Monday’s “island” to one day command as a big alpha bull. Francois Hugo