Totally agree on Sea World.
That was Sea World. They should have spent the money on shutting down their operation.
Yes itâs a despicable thing to train animals to do stupid tricks, whales, bears, elephants, all of them. When I lived in San Diego, I would call Scripps if I saw a critter that needed attention, but SW does run a legitimate rescue program, and Iâm sure youâd approve of the help they do provide.
I wish SeaWorld cared about its captive marine mammals as much as it cared about wild ones like this.
Oh, poor precious baby sea lion.
Thank you for saving her!
Unfortunately these highly publicized rescue operations are just public greenwashing to distract people from the hell their captive marine mammals experience every day.
That sea lion reminds me of Jeb Bush somehowâŠ
Watch the video:
hmm. not one comment so far on why this is happening. Scientists say the animalsâ food supply has been affected by higher-than-normal ocean temperatures linked to El Nino.
Rarely does the word âpassionateâ get hooked up with the word âambivalence,â but it kinda does when youâre talking about SeaWorld.
Assuming this female is a California sea lion, they grow to full maturity at arout 6 feet & 225 pounds. Youâll need a pretty big, deep pool and lots of live or raw fresh-killed seafood, every day, repeatedly thru the day. Then there are the vet bills (Good luck getting her fixed.)! Pretty sure youâll have trouble getting a license for your new pet.
Arenât Republicans supposed to believe weâre ordered to be good stewards of the earth by the Almighty? Maybe thereâs some fine print in the Bible about profits over everything.
They called SEAWORLD? Thatâs like calling McDonaldâs to ârescueâ a lost calf.
Northern CA has the Marine Mammal Center and a couple of other non-profits that rehab and release critters like these. They do incredible work.
Doesnât SoCal have something similar instead of a corporate animal-torture entertainment company?
In Alaska last month we also learned that parts of Alaskaâs coastal mudflats and high water mark are covered with tens of thousands of dead murres. The birds depend on a food source that has been cut drastically by the warm waters of El Niño and global warming. Since the warmer surface water is most affected, the birds have been starving en masse. Maybe the LaJolla seal lives on the same food source as the Murres?
There is NO DOUBT in my mind that the various âdie offsâ that weâve seen in the past 5 years, and the many more in the future, are an ominous harbinger of some bad times to come for humans. The proverbial canary in the coal mindâŠ
but our gop friends just do not want to think about it. it just makes everything so inconvenient.
You and @estamm are NOT alone, @Chammy. The darr household could find room too. Iâd hafta severely lower the temperature of the family hot tub but it would be a small sacrifice. Our 3 cats and the dog (all rescues) would learn to make accommodation.
This is really sad! The waters are so warm that the mammals that live in the waters can no longer thrive in heated watersâŠwe have got to take care of our climate now or else we will completely destroy this world!
I like that the pup went to a restaurant.
One Blue Plate fish special, coming right up!