Jamie recieved a call on Friday evening from a member of the public regarding a small grey seal pup that had been lying next to the ferry pier to Seil Island, south of Oban. Being over 5 hours away he called, what used to be local, SSPCA officers to help with assesing and if needed, to uplift.After assesing the pup on the Saturday morning it was uplifted by SSPCA John McAvoy, then relayed by SSPCA Dawna Connelly to Inverness and then Jim Thompson collected the pup at Inverness and arrived at the hospital at 10.30pm Saturday night. He has been called Pumpkin and is a male around 10 days old, weighing in at 13.6 kilos. Malnourished with only minor cuts and scrapes.Fiesty and alert.
The pup was called Pumpkin, he was given fluid therapy for the first 24 hours along with anti-biotics, vitamin and iron supplements. He is a well behaved boy with a good singing voice. Pumpkin is now on to eating fish with minimal assistance this is unusual for young pup.The first time he was stomach tubed he willingly swallowed it down and did so each time he was given the fluid therapy, this led us to try very small gutted fish instead of the usual trimmed fillets of herring. He is a smashing little Pumpkin but he will still try to bite your ankle as you step out of his pen.
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