{"id":452067,"date":"2025-09-26T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452067\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:24:21","slug":"crimdon-beach-seal-pup-has-op-on-severely-infected-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/452067\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimdon Beach seal pup has op on severely infected eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A seal pup rescued from a beach is recovering after complex surgery on a severe eye infection.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pup, nicknamed Popeye, was just a few weeks old and malnourished when he was found on Crimdon beach near Hartlepool on 12 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDLMR) team treated him at its North East Seal Triage Unit (Nest) before he began rehabilitation at the Tynemouth Seal Hospital, but his eye worsened and had to be removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team said, after weeks of eating &#8220;lots of fish&#8221;, the pup&#8217;s weight had risen and he had more energy to &#8220;pester volunteers&#8221; visiting him and cleaning his pen back at Tynemouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seal pup rescued from a beach is recovering after complex surgery on a severe eye infection. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-452067","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\/115268935220548386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452067","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=452067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}