Pupping season shut down on weekends
April 21, 2011 – 5:48 pmFrom the last San Diego Reader
Dear locals, tourists, La Jolla businesses and Chamber of Commerce,
Due to persistent harassment of the La Jolla seal colony, there is no more pupping season on weekends. We need to let thousands of visitors who travel to La Jolla in order to see the seals and their babies during pupping season know that there is no reason to come to Casa Beach because there are no more seals to be seen. If people decide to visit, they need to be ready to face their disappointment of watching a bunch of selfish hooligans destroying our natural treasure.
Hotels, restaurants and shop owners/managers – please announce to the visitors that seal pupping season at Casa Beach is terminated.
Dead seals are washing up on the shore and abandoned pups are suffering their cruel fate instead.
Crowd preventing seals from hauling out, resting and nursing their young
Seals cannot haul out. Body of the dead seal in the top left corner.
Seals that are desperate and try to come on shore…
…are chased off the beach…
…until gone
Crowd surrounds mom and pup…
…forcing them to retrieve…
…into the safety of the ocean without a chance to nurse and rest
Harassment of seals continues on the rocks…
…where seals are touched by small children…
…and teenagers (abandoned and sick “Pudding Pop” on the rock)
As a reminder, these pictures are taken during SENSITIVE SEAL PUPPNG SEASON, not summertime.
Because of the beach invasion, we were deprived of witnessing the birth of the last pup of the 2011 season, “Pudding Pop”. The small black baby was spotted bonding with his mom on the beach on Monday, April 11, but was later abandoned and then rescued by SeaWorld on Sunday, April 17. Please see Andrea’s video of the last pup below (you need to log in into your Facebook account):
Crowd surrounding the seals on Easter Sunday
A teenager with a knife agitating a seal on Easter Sunday
We had 45 seal pups born at Casa Beach rookery this season and here’s the complete list of the births:
Unfortunately we cannot enjoy seeing them undisturbed on the beach in their nursery.
Please read a wonderful Diary of a SealWatcher by our volunteer Colleen posted in the Reader:
Also, please ask La Jolla City Councilwoman Sherri Lightner how does she propose to solve the situation at Casa Beach now that her ranger is gone.
Councilwoman Sherri Lightner
(619) 236-6611
From North County:
(858) 484-3808
Fax: (619) 236-6999
Email:
sherrilightner@sandiego.gov
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6 Comments! WOW! Read Below what others are saying.
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
Please, an you approve my comments so that I can tell these “frisbee boys” assholes how evil and wrong they are. I hate them. How could anyone do that to a baby seal. It makes me sick.
By Jimbo on Apr 22, 2011
Dear “Frisbee boys”
What is wrong with you. Didn’t your mother show you any affection? You are sick, and evil. Al you do is kill baby seals. You SUCK.
By Jimbo on Apr 22, 2011
Dear Jimbo,
All I saw was some people using a man made beach that it was built for as people have been doing for the past eighty some odd years. You obviously have no education or experience with these animals (the seals) from your comments and I suggest you do a little research before you post comments like that.
Remember when the Full of Sh*T/Seal people offer you Kool aid to get on the spaceship hidden behind the comet, you might want to stop and think for yourself before its too late. Please do some research.
Hey, how is that little permit for your table thing working out for you guys down there?
Oh yeah, still breaking the law as you see fit.
By Emmet on Apr 24, 2011
I love how Emmet bitches about being portrayed wrongly and in the next sentence, he compares the seal activists to a suicidal cult who worships comets. Just shows you how ridiculous these anti-seal nutjobs are. With hundreds of miles of beaches in the San Diego area, they just cant get over one small beach being reserved for wildlife viewing. Get a fucking life.
By Brian on Apr 24, 2011
Brian Nailed it!
Seals can’t climb on rocks. They need a sandy beach to have their puppies on, Emmet, you cretin. If you knew anything at all you would know there aren’t any other sandy beaches nearby for them to come out on.
If the seals can’t come out of the water they die. What is wrong with you that you want the seals to die because they can’t come out of the water.
YOU SUCK EMMET.
By Jimbo on Apr 24, 2011
Jimbo, seals can’t climb on rocks?? You need to study up on your biology of harbor seals. Their primary habitat is rocks, not beaches. I guess you have never seen any truly “wild” harbor seals, having only been mislead by the artificial rookery at the Children’s Pool beach.
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg115/JetSkiBrian/2011%20pictures/seal6.jpg
“If the seals can’t come out of the water they die. ”
LOL… while this is true, we would think that any seal acting in its self interest would easily be able to find a piece of dry land in the hundreds of miles of suitable habitat within a day’s swim of Children’s Pool. And I’m pretty sure nobody uses the beach from the hours of 9pm-6am, so they can haul out then if they like. Quit being so dramatic, seriously you need to take a chill pill baby.
By Brian on Apr 24, 2011