{"id":433973,"date":"2025-09-18T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433973\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:11:15","slug":"tees-seal-pup-deaths-vet-calls-for-specialist-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433973\/","title":{"rendered":"Tees seal pup deaths: Vet calls for specialist hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ms Dykes said several of the pups which died had been brought to her for treatment. <\/p>\n

“We had one with part of the face eroded off,” she said. <\/p>\n

“It was pitiful to see the poor thing in that condition.<\/p>\n

“The closest unit is up in Tyneside, which is too far for them to travel, and I believe they only have space for two seals at a time.<\/p>\n

“With the numbers we’ve been seeing this summer that is not going to be enough.”<\/p>\n

She described the seals as the “jewel in the crown” of Hartlepool.<\/p>\n

The Tara Seal Research team said it is investigating the deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Dykes said several of the pups which died had been brought to her for treatment. “We had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-433973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115226180600738687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}