Seal hit by car after wandering onto N.S. highway now eating, recovering:shelter
HALIFAX — A wayward seal pup that was struck by a car after wandering onto a road two times in Cape Breton is munching on fish and recovering at a wildlife shelter outside Halifax.
Hope Swinimer of Hope for Wildlife said Monday that the young hooded seal arrived at her facility in Seaforth late Saturday after being spotted by a driver near Sydney and then loaded into a police car for a short drive to a wildlife volunteer, who delivered it to Swinimer’s home.
“The good news is that we couldn’t find anything broken,” she said of the 23-kilogram animal. “But we’re going to try to get about 10 kilograms on him because he is really thin.”
Swinimer said the seal — nicknamed ‘ET’ for its large, otherworldly eyes — was bleeding from its left eye after being struck, but was eating on its own and didn’t have any broken bones.