Around 5 pm I had a call from Jim Thompson saying there was a pup near Kiess which is near to Wick at the Sub Sea 7 instillation. It is a pipeline manufacturing plant that makes the offshore pipelines.We arrived there to find a white coat pup that had somehow travelled around half a mile upstream after getting through a fenced off section of stream and had then turned and travelled down a dirty muddy road next to the pipeline railway for about 300 metres.He had a bad swelling and puncture mark over his ribs and a nasty cut next to his eye.Once at the hospital we assessed him, he was given a pain killer/anti-inflammatory injection as well as anti-biotic and fluid therapy, fed and then bedded him down for the night.We called him Walter after the man who looked out for him all afternoon after a farmer had seen him in the morning. He weighed in at 14.6 kilo and was filthy covered in mud and oil,he is very alert and active considering his adventures.
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