Species : Common (harbour) Seal
Date Admitted : 18th June 2011
Sex : Male
Found : Snettisham Beach
Robbie was found on the same day and location as another rescued pup named Lisa, the stormy weather was appearing to be too much for these little pups!
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Robbie was found at Snettisham beach, and the tide was so far out the water could not be seen. Robbie was in the mud flats, therefore the staff got rather muddy when rescuing him!
Again Robbie needed our help because his mother was nowhere to be seen unfortunately, so we brought him into our hospital and started his course of precautionary treatments.
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Robbie is approximately 6 days old, and his blood glucose level was a little bit low. The staff also found that he was a little bit snappy!
This is a positive sign in a wild seal, now the staff just have to fatten up Robbie to the required weight and then release him.
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Update : 28th June 2011 - Robbie started his "weaning" process today, where we start to get them used to eating whole herring alongside their multi-milk diet.
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Update : 3rd July 2011 - Robbie is now eating only fish, and is now hand feeding! This is good progress for Robbie, as it shows he is really enjoying the fish.
The next stage for Robbie is to reach 15kg in weight so we can start his weaning onto feeding for himself. | 
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Update : 20th July 2011 - Robbie has reached a weight of 15kg, so now we can start his weaning process from being hand fed to feeding for himself - good luck Robbie!
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Update: 21st August 2011 - This photo of Robbie was taken on 19th July 2011 in the outside seal enclosure. Robbie is in this pool to learn to compete for fish with other seals.
Click here to see a larger photo of Robbie.
Robbie´s flipper tag number is 02 (white).
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Update: 28th October 2011 - Robbie along with the other six rescued seal pups are going to be released in November 2011!
They are fully rehabilitated and the animal care team are certain that it´s time for these little ones to go back to the wild.
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Update: 18th November 2011 - Robbie along with Lisa, Vicky, Katy, Linda, Simon and Tracey were returned to the wild on 16th November 2011 at Snettisham beach as featured on ITV´s Daybreak programme. Click here to watch the video on Daybreak.
A full story and more photos of the release will appear here soon. | 
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Help Us to Help Them.....Each pup can cost up to £1,000 to rehabilitate, if you would like to adopt a seal pup or make a donation towards a pup´s rehabilitation, please Click here for more details.
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