Tag: gray seal

Your Year-End Gift Saves Injured Sea Turtles & Seals!

Dec 31, 2017 cold stun

Thanks to you, we rehabilitated and released our 100th seal this year. Miley Sealrus was a weanling female gray seal that was found stranded in the middle of a road in Scituate, Massachusetts. She had mouth wounds and was dehydrated and malnourished. Two months later, after hundreds of hours of dedicate care and rehabilitation, Miley […]

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NMLC Calendars Are Here!

Nov 17, 2017 Calendar

Have you heard the news? We have NMLC calendars now! They feature harbor seal pups and weanlings, grey seals, Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, and red-bellied cooters! Included in our calendars are also fun facts about each animal. If you are wondering what to get someone for the holidays, look no further! These calendars are a […]

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Our 100th Seal is HERE!

May 9, 2017 gray seal

We are proud to announce that our one hundredth seal has entered our hospital for rehabilitation!! Miley Sealrus, a female gray seal pup, was found in Scituate, MA on March 28 and brought to the NMLC the same day by the New England Aquarium. Upon arrival, she was diagnosed with a rectal prolapse and severe […]

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NMLC’s 12 Needs of Christmas- think of the animals this holiday season

Nov 25, 2016 Christmas

It’s the holiday season, time to think of those in need! Please remember the seals and sea turtles that need your help this season as well. While you are out doing your last minute  holiday shopping this week, pick up a small gift for our seal patients Beyonseal, and Frankenseal,  or the sea turtle patients […]

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Shaquille O’Seal is going back in the game!

Jun 9, 2016 gray seal

Shaquille O’seal or Shaq, as he’s know throughout the hospital, is headed back to his home! When the New England Aquarium Stranding Response staff first encountered Shaq all of our hospital beds were full. Their staff relocated him to another beach where they hoped he would be left alone by bystanders to rest and recover. […]

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Russeall Crowe Release!

May 19, 2016 gray seal

The day of March 31st  International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) received reports of multiple seals stranding along Brewster beaches. After IFAW personnel ran from beach to beach to follow up on these reports of sickly seals, they eventually realized that it was all the same seal! Now known as “Russeall Crowe,” was beach hopping […]

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Mother’s Day Seal Release Planned!

May 5, 2016 gray seal

Sealvester Stallone and Vin Dieseal  are headed back into action! This weekend they will be starring in their final adventure with NMLC, they are both being released! “Sealvester Stallone,” a weanling gray seal, was brought to us March 18 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Stallone was found on Gooseberry Island and was critically dehydrated, […]

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Our Seal-ebrity Line Up!

Apr 28, 2016 Celine Dion

Things have been action packed here at NMLC and we have five new Seal-ebrities to add to our hall of fame! “Sealvester Stallone,” a gray weanling seal, was brought to us March 18 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Stallone was found on Gooseberry Island and was critically dehydrated, malnourished, and had lesions […]

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The first SEAL-ebrities have landed!

Feb 26, 2016 Frank Sinatra

After deciding upon on the 2016 seal naming theme back in December there has been a lot of anticipation as to who our first “Seal-lebrity”  patients would be. Well the wait is finally over. In the past week we have admitted not one but two “Seal-lebrities” into our marine animal hospital to kick of the […]

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Cilantro is Going Home!

Jul 3, 2015 Cilantro

Join us as we send Cilantro back home to the ocean! Release Details When:  Monday, July 6, 2015 Approximate Time:  7:00 PM Where:  Scusset Beach State Reservation, Sandwich, MA Cilantro, a weanling male grey seal, stranded on South Beach in Chatham, MA on May 2, 2015. He was rescued by the International Fund for Animal […]

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