FALMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) - A seal got stuck in a cranberry bog in Falmouth on Saturday.
Officials from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said the seal was not in any danger and they wanted to give it an opportunity to make its back to the water on its own. They said they were willing to lend a helping hand if the seal needed it, but the animal has since moved on to another spot.
Thomas Huckemeyer, the man who first saw the seal, said this is a rare encounter.
“I’m a local and a commercial fisherman for years and I’ve never seen this in my entire life, so it was definitely shocking,” Huckemeyer told 7NEWS.
However, a seal problem is nothing new in Massachusetts. In September, Schubert the seal spent weeks in Beverly’s Shoe Pond before being relocated to Rhode Island. Schubert then returned to Beverly in October.
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