{"id":587057,"date":"2026-09-01T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:32:11","slug":"seal-pup-that-got-a-little-lost-rescued-from-lancashire-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587057\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal pup that got &#8216;a little lost&#8217; rescued from Lancashire beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A seal has been rescued after getting &#8220;a little lost&#8221; on a Lancashire beach, conservationists said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers from Fylde Council said they were told about the young common seal in St Annes on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tide was coming in but the pup &#8220;was not keen to return to the sea&#8221;, they said in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was already a trained British Divers Marine Life Rescue member there. Between us we made sure the seal was safe and undisturbed until another trained rescuer arrived with some equipment,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Pip the pup, as we named it, was taken away to a nearby vets where it will be assessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seal has been rescued after getting &#8220;a little lost&#8221; on a Lancashire beach, conservationists said. Rangers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-587057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}