Muse was fully weaned when he was was found in a thin condition on 11 December.<\/p>\n
West attended the location and said she had concerns about him immediately as he had “obvious rolls of skin” that should have been filled with blubber.<\/p>\n
“When I initially assessed him, little did I know that he had travelled such a long way in such a short time.”<\/p>\n
The seal had been checked by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) four days earlier and was marked as being located at Port Gaverne, in Cornwall.<\/p>\n
West said it was a “really long swim for a young pup” resulting in Muse losing a considerable amount of weight on his journey.<\/p>\n
Ryan Walker, a wildlife supervisor at the RSPCA, said the seal was “underweight and with a possible respiratory infection” when he arrived at their centre.<\/p>\n
But with the support of West and her team, Muse had consistently gained weight – showing he can compete with other seals for his share of the fish.<\/p>\n
“His last weight was measured at 41.5kg (6st 7lb) – nearly tripling in size since he was picked up on the beach,” Walker added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muse was fully weaned when he was was found in a thin condition on 11 December. West attended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-539104","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\/539104","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=539104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}