{"id":731695,"date":"2026-08-08T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731695\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:30:09","slug":"seaham-seal-recovering-after-dog-bites-and-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731695\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaham seal recovering after dog bites and harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A seal is recovering after being rescued from a beach where he was being harassed by teenagers, a rescue group has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The male common seal pup was found on Red Acre beach in Seaham, County Durham, on 28 July after a member of the public reported it to British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BDMLR coordinator Debbie Harrison said the seal also had a number of dog bites and, if the medic had not arrived when they did, he would have died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now at a rehabilitation centre in Cheshire, the seal was doing well and &#8220;no doubt he will be released at some point&#8221;, Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as several dog bites, the pup had an infected rear flipper wound and mouth rot, and was exhausted and dehydrated, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seal is recovering after being rescued from a beach where he was being harassed by teenagers, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-731695","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\/731695","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=731695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}