{"id":780112,"date":"2026-09-23T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780112\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:10","slug":"horsey-seal-anchored-down-by-debris-needs-months-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780112\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsey seal &#8216;anchored&#8217; down by debris needs months of care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sally Butler, chairwoman of the Friends of Horsey Seals charity, said members of the public helped to stretcher Doughnut off the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very rare for us to attempt a rescue at this time of year &#8211; with so many heavily pregnant seals around, it wouldn&#8217;t be right for us to disturb them and cause them stress,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we were doubtful as to whether Doughnut would survive until the end of the pupping season, so we decided to attempt a rescue even though she wasn&#8217;t close to the water&#8217;s edge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that the team was also aware of other entangled seals in the colony and hoped to try to rescue them too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Winch wildlife centre said the number of such incidents had risen heavily and it had cared for 104 seals with necklace-type injuries since 2008, when it started keeping records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine of those seals had died, but the centre had rehabilitated and released 95 back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Norfolk? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Butler, chairwoman of the Friends of Horsey Seals charity, said members of the public helped to stretcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-780112","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\/780112","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=780112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}