I had the luck and privilege of being able to help care for an Hawaiian Monk seal recently at the Aquarium- he is a local celebrity seal, that has been humanized because he was cared for by people when he was little, and now they have realized he can not stay in the wild, as he is very attached to people and seeks them out, and try's to play with them in the water- they have also found out that he has a sight problem, therefore could be attacked more easily by sharks, so he will be spending his life in a sea life park or aquarium, after having some surgery on his eyes.
I got up at 5 am and left to go to the aquarium with my firend Jen. While there, she had to drain the pool, clean the pool, fill the pool and then we had to feed KP2- the seal- He has now progressed to eating dead fish- previously we had to only feed him live fish, which he tried to catche and then kill.. the dead fish is an improvement, as while he is in captivity the trainers will be feeding him dead fish- so we were glad to see him swtich over. It was fun to spend 6 hours with a seal, he is so engaging. At one point we had to give him a little board to play with and he loved it.
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