{"id":467126,"date":"2026-03-10T04:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:04:15","slug":"rescued-seal-pups-in-guernsey-ready-to-return-to-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467126\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued seal pups in Guernsey ready to return to the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blizzard was the first seal rescued this season and was still learning feeding skills, the charity said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ice Ice Baby, the most recent arrival, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cyv9n721yeno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found with fishing net tightly around his neck<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His wound was healing and he has been allowed into the charity&#8217;s small &#8220;first stage pool&#8221;, the GSPCA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iceberg Lettuce and Icicle were still gaining weight, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Geoff George, head of marine mammals, said he would look at moving more seals into the larger pool to give them more space once Frosty, Glacier, and Avalanche were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Frosty, Glacier and Avalanche have done incredibly well and are now at the point where they are strong, confident, and ready to make their return to the wild. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Each has more than doubled their weight since rescue, which is exactly what we want to see before release.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blizzard was the first seal rescued this season and was still learning feeding skills, the charity said. Ice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-467126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467126","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=467126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}