A mother harbor seal, who had recently given birth, was found dead on the beach north of the Ocean Park beach approach last week, thought to have been a victim of an intentional vehicular killing.
Photo by SUZY WHITTEY / Chinook Observer
http://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/peta-offers-5000-reward-help-nabbing-person-killed-mother-seal/
Federal Officials Seeking Culprit and Missing Baby Seal
For Immediate Release:
May 8, 2014
Contact:
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Ocean Park, Wash. – On April 19, a pregnant harbor seal gave birth on a beach just north of Ocean Park. Concerned residents set up a perimeter—complete with red flag–draped warning signs—and checked on the seals periodically. On the morning of April 20, a concerned resident arrived to find that someone had apparently driven a truck into the area and run over the seal, severing her tail. The seal had to be euthanized because of the extent of her injuries, and her baby remains missing.
Officials have yet to make any arrests. That’s why PETA is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for this violent crime.
Would you please consider sharing this information with your audience? It might be the only way to apprehend those responsible for this heinous act.
“Study after study has confirmed that people who hurt animals often go on to hurt human beings,” says PETA Director Martin Mersereau. “PETA is urging anyone with information to come forward now, before another violent act is committed.”
Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to contact the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement toll-free at 1-800-853-1964 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-800-853-1964 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting .
For more information, please visit PETA.org. To listen to PETA’s anti-violence public service announcement—which features Inglourious Basterds star and Hostel director Eli Roth—please visit http://www.petatv.com/audio/psas/Eli_Roth_PSA_V3.mp3.
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What about the baby? I read your other post where you surmised the killer probably took the baby to another location and killed him/her?
The fate of the pup is still a mystery.
It could have been a fisherman, they certainly don’t like seal competition here on the East Coast either – but I wouldn’t put it past the latest generation of dumbass kids to have done it either. Good for PETA and I hope they get whoever it was. It is beneath humanity to behave this way towards other living things.
First thought is did they take the baby….good God. Heartless, cowards and fools.