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GNASHER was rescued on 3rd October 2001
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Gnasher, a 3 weeks old female grey seal pup, was rescued by the RSPCA from Puttsborough beach in Devon on the 3rd October 2001. She was malnourished, so she spent short a time in the hospital to gain a little more weight before being introduced to outside nursery pools. Moved to the outside nursery pool, she developed a swelling to her right hand side of muzzle, which was an abscess. After a course of antibiotics, it quickly healed. Her weight increased nicely and she was moved into convalescent pool on 11th of November 2001.
Gnasher´s flipper tag ID number is 80. She was also tagged with a blue painted circle on her head.
She was released back into the wild on 22nd March 2002 at Porthtowan with two other pups, Scampi and Pluto.
Sadly not long after her release, Gnasher was found dead on a beach DNS 7th April 2002 on the south coast of Cornwall quite a long distance away from where she had been released. She was reported to be in good body condition with no obvious wounds or abnormalities. Unfortunately she was washed out with the tide before we could collect her for a post mortem.
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