{"id":819969,"date":"2026-07-23T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:58:12","slug":"abandoned-seal-pup-rescued-near-bowen-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819969\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned seal pup rescued near Bowen Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An abandoned harbour seal pup has been rescued by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) Marine Unit and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society (VAMMR).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pup was found after a visitor to Bowen Island saw it alone and in distress on the shoreline at Seymour Bay, near Cowan Point, says the VPD Marine Unit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2M9A3131-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4463574\"  \/>\u201cCanadian Bacon\u201d being rescued near Bowen Island. (VAMMR)<\/p>\n<p>Three veterinary technicians were taken to the area by the VPD Marine vessel to find the pup, says police.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 7 p.m., the team arrived on the shore and safely secured the newborn female pup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The approximately week-old pup has been named \u201cCanadian Bacon\u201d and taken back to the VAMMR facility for medical attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VAMMR staff are hopeful that she will be able to return to the wild in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An abandoned harbour seal pup has been rescued by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) Marine Unit and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-819969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}