{"id":159971,"date":"2025-09-25T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159971\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:45:07","slug":"crimdon-beach-seal-pup-saved-after-op-on-severely-infected-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159971\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimdon Beach seal pup saved after op on severely infected eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warning: this article shows graphic images of the seal&#8217;s infected eye<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he was rescued at a few weeks old, the pup weighed just 9.3kg (19.8lbs). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the team&#8217;s care, his eye became ulcerated and the difficult decision was made to operate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Ilderton, lead volunteer at the seal hospital, said: &#8220;Sadly, despite the best efforts of the team, the ulcer caused the eye to rupture, meaning it would need an operation to remove it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: this article shows graphic images of the seal&#8217;s infected eye When he was rescued at a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-159971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}