{"id":219780,"date":"2025-10-23T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:41:07","slug":"mouth-rot-study-offering-hope-for-north-east-seal-pups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219780\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouth rot study offering hope for North East seal pups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the team in Tynemouth, every release is a sign of progress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They come in weak and flat, and a few months later they&#8217;re ready to go back out and repopulate,&#8221; said Mr Ilderton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You get a little tear in your eye, it&#8217;s why we do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre expects to release another recovering seal, Popeye, in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Popeye, from Teesside, was treated for severe mouth rot and is now nearing the end of his rehabilitation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had one eye removed but is expected to adapt well in the wild, using his whiskers to navigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People who find a seal pup in distress are urged to keep dogs on leads, maintain a safe distance, and call the BDMLR on 01825 765546 for advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the team in Tynemouth, every release is a sign of progress. &#8220;They come in weak and flat,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-219780","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\/219780","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=219780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}