Posted on 03/27/2015 6:45:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An unexpected sight in Mountain View — a sea lion pup nicknamed "Glicker" was found stranded on a popular trail Wednesday, Mountain View police said.
Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority's Officer Morris rescued the pup from the Stevens Creek Trail with help from the Marine Mammal Center. Officials say sometimes marine mammals make their way deep into the San Francisco Bay, and then into creeks. A few years ago a porpoise was rescued from the San Tomas Aquino Creek in Santa Clara.
Hundreds of sick and starving sea lion pups are washing up on California beaches, and scientists say they don’t know when it will end. New numbers released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week show that an unprecedented 1,800 California sea lions have been admitted to rehab facilities across the state this year.
Poor thing. Nature can be cruel. I can’t criticize people being empathetic toward critters in distress. I’m guilty of it as well.
Damn. I didn't know the drug problem was that bad in California.
I’ve even done it for snakes. A few years ago I had some major landscaping done that involved laying nylon nets on my lawn to promote lawn growth. A couple of rat snakes got caught in the nets. I rescued each one by getting down on the ground and cutting it out of the net. One of them got rescued even after it bit me.
I remember something very similar a few years back...somewhere in the “south bay” area
I wish I could remember those details
I think it happened once or twice in the Eats Bay.
this puts me in Mind Of Humphrey the Whale...who wandered into the bay some 30 plus years ago...and I saw going around lands end in S..F as fate would have it
Me either. This might put a small dent in Zippy's welfare payments to his illegal aliens and his undocumented pharmacists.
I find its easier to rescue the snakes if you cut their heads off first. :-)
The Pacific Ocean is full of crap from China and Japan.
It will eventually poison the entire ocean.
The problem is that nonpoisonous snakes, like the Rat Snakes I rescued, d al sorts of good things and very few bad ones. Since they’re generally beneficial and innocuous, I try to be nice to them, including rescuing them.
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