I would sooner eat the neighbor than eat a seal.
His name was “Nuisance”. I was 11 years old. I had spent a year in the hospital and my mom would take me to the beach for long walks to help build my strength. Nuisance was about 3 days old and found alone on the beach. We didn’t know that his mom had likely left him on the beach while she went hunting for food.
Fisherman had been shooting seals that morning, so we figured that he was an orphan and just waiting to die. We wrapped my moms coat around him and took him home.
We quickly learned what we needed to know to help him survive.
I raised my buddy Nuisance for almost 4 years. He was as smart as a dog and there were 6 of us kids for him to love. We raised another seal, “Sammy”. Sammy belonged to the Portland Zoo. He was a biter and they wanted us to socialize him. After about 6 months, Sammy became very friendly, quit biting and learned a good many tricks.
Nope, you will never see me eating a seal.....it would be like eating a pet dog.
I like that story.
I’ve eaten dog in South Korea, whale in Japan, monkey in Malaysia and shark fin’s soup in China. But I haven’t eaten seal before. Is it delicious?
Great post.