Starving sea lion found in San Diego, California, restaurant

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A starving sea lion has been rescued after finding its way into the booth of a fancy San Diego restaurant.

Experts at SeaWorld were called Thursday morning to The Marine Room, an oceanfront restaurant in La Jolla.

Rescuers found an 8-month-old female pup asleep in a dining booth. The pup was severely underweight and dehydrated.

The pup was taken to SeaWorld's Animal Rescue Center, and experts are cautiously optimistic about her recovery.

FULL short stay at link.


In a photo provided by SeaWorld, an 8-month-old female sea lion pup is shown where it was found sleeping in a booth of the Marine Room, an upscale restaurant in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. Experts were called from nearby SeaWorld, who said the pup was severely underweight and dehydrated. The pup was taken to SeaWorld’s Animal Rescue Center and experts are cautiously optimistic about her recovery. There’s been a surge in sea lion mortality over the past year because, scientists say, the animals’ food supply has been affected by higher-than-normal ocean temperatures linked to El Nino.(Mike Aguilera/SeaWorld via AP)


Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b911717f33644a4eb5c9efa8e706829d/starving-sea-lion-found-san-diego-restaurant

[JRLeft]

1. Hopefully she will be OK.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Hopefully released back into the wild after recovering.

[JRLeft]

14. +1

[ErisDiscordia]

2. Outstanding service by the restaurant! Even if their security stinks.

[Beartracks]

16. "Restaurant proud to serve sea lion"?

Sorry, but that could certainly have been a VERY confusing headline. Glad they didn't go with that one!!



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[montanacowboy]

3. What is this world becoming

The human race is a cancer on the face of planet Earth. We destroy everything. I am glad I am old and won't be around for when the check is called in for payment. If there is a God he made a hell of a mistake in creating man.

[LiberalElite]

5. I agree -

Nature will do fine without us. Modern man [sic] doesn't fit in anywhere, unlike the so-called "primitives".

P.S.: I like to say that God should have taken the whole weekend off, not just the one day after he created us.

[onecent]

28. My thoughts EXACTLY montanacowboy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ladjf]

32. Sorry to say that I have to agree with you in your low assessment of the human race.

We have infested the Earth and are killing everything we can, as fast as we can. The terrible "human plague" will end and it won't be pretty.

We most definitely were a mistake of evolution. Nature will brush us aside, hopefully, while some life is still present. We have proven to be too greedy, mean and stupid to be allowed the privilege of surviving.

I only hope that both of us are wrong.

[63splitwindow]

4. Because that's where the seafood is (thanks to Willie Sutton)...

[link:|

[LiberalElite]

6. I was sort of thinking the same -

the poor little thing possibly smelled the seafood.

[NV Whino]

7. I can haz cheeseburger?

Or maybe herring?

[trillion]

10. Good one!

[63splitwindow]

8. In her defense...

[link:|

[3catwoman3]

9. Poor baby.

She had the strength to get herself up on that booth seat, so maybe that is a favorable sign. Hang in, little one.

[jpak]

23. I'm pretty sure she had help

[3catwoman3]

24. I did wonder about that, and...

...went back twice to read the article to be sure it actually said "...found IN a booth." I just hope she was rescued in time. Baby seals are so precious.

[tularetom]

12. Poor little guy looks pretty sad

Hope everything works out for her and she can return to her home in good health.

[Skittles]

21. awwww that's what I thought - so very sad

[Blue Owl]

13. Get that pupper some supper!

n/t

[Judi Lynn]

15. Thank god the restaurant had the tiny one taken for help,rather than thrown back where she was dying

of starvation.

It's not the animals' fault the oceans are being stripped of their food sources.

Providence sent this little one to seek help.

Hope when she leaves, she is healthy, perhaps for the first time, and her little ribs aren't protruding.

Thank you, Omaha Steve.

[toothless dragon]

17. She's not the only one...

Countless sea birds are dying of starvation from Baja to Cooks inlet on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska ... The sea is telling us something... we are not listening...

[Judi Lynn]

19. Thanks for the mention. It's catastrophic, and completely unnecessary. n/t

[shenmue]

18. I'll have the herring special

[flamingdem]

20. Laugh or cry, can't decide nt

[mhatrw]

22. Wait a minute! They sent her to sea animal prison just for not leaving a tip?

Can we do that with people who leave evangelical "money"?

[3catwoman3]

25. I am afraid to ask, but...

...WTH is "evangelical money.?

[mhatrw]

26. Sorry. Here you go.

http://thebitchywaiter.blogspot.com/2011/11/fake-jesus-money-tips-suck.html

[3catwoman3]

33. How rude and...

...disrespectful.

[3catwoman3]

34. The comments to the article are pretty good.

This one was my favorite -

"It is hypocrisy at it's finest to stiff a server with the ruse of biblical verse that looks like real money. It's just a poor ass excuse for being a cheap, shady douchebag!"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. A "fin" wouldn't cover it?

[Judi Lynn]

27. Here's a video from BBC, with her little seal voice as she is carried out:

Sea lion pup rescued from San Diego restaurant

5 February 2016 Last updated at 09:11 GMT

SeaWorld's Jody Westberg describes rescuing an eight-month old sea lion pup from a restaurant in San Diego, California.

Footage courtesy of SeaWorld.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35499932

(Video at link.)

[mysuzuki2]

30. Well at least she had enough sense not to go to Red Lobster ...

[KittyWampus]

31. or the Olive Garden

[3catwoman3]

35. I hope we get some...

...happy updates.

[Judi Lynn]

36. Sick sea lion pup rescued from Marine Room

Sick sea lion pup rescued from Marine Room

Posted 3:11 PM, February 5, 2016, by Bob Ponting, Updated at 04:01pm, February 5, 2016

SAN DIEGO – An undernourished sea lion pup is being nursed back to health after it was found lounging in a booth at the Marine Room restaurant in La Jolla.

Restaurant workers discovered the 20-pound female pup sleeping in a booth Thursday morning. It had apparently come in through an open door.

Employees called SeaWorld, which sent a rescue team. They determined that the 8-month-old California sea lion pup was severly undernourished and dehydrated.

They also noticed that the animal’s left eye was swollen shut.

More:
http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/02/05/sick-sea-lion-pup-rescued-from-marine-room/

(There's a better video of the little critter going with the women from Sea World to get food and treatment.)

[Judi Lynn]

37. Sea Lion That Wandered Into Calif. Eatery Returns to Ocean

Sea Lion That Wandered Into Calif. Eatery Returns to Ocean

Photos of the pup curled up in a booth at The Marine Room Restaurant in February went viral

By Laura McVicker

Amid cheers by those who rescued her, Marina, the wayward sea lion that ended up in a La Jolla restaurant booth two months ago, was returned to the ocean off California on Tuesday.

SeaWorld animal care workers boated out several miles off the coast of San Diego to return Marina and several other rehabilitated sea lions.

One by one, the animals waddled to the back of the boat and dove in, swimming away as the rescue workers looked on.

The chef of The Marine Room Restaurant, where Marina was found curled up in a booth in February, joined SeaWorld workers to free the pup.

More:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Sea-Lion-Pup-Found-at-La-Jolla-Restaurant-Returns-to-Ocean-374792761.html

Video at link!