{"id":6048,"date":"2023-06-30T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2023-06-30T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:25:05","slug":"why-did-the-seal-cross-the-road-in-papakura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6048","title":{"rendered":"Why did the seal cross the road in Papakura?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police and Department of Conservation staff are wrangling a seal that has gone up the garden path – and across the street, causing a disturbance by loitering in an Auckland suburb.<\/p>\n

The driveway and garden of the property has been cordoned off after the wayward seal stopped in for a rest after making its way through the suburb of Papakura.<\/p>\n

Senior Sergeant Andrew Parkinson said it was first spotted in a KFC car park on Great South Road and got plenty of attention as it made its way down the road on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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Police and DoC rangers responded to calls about the seal in Papakura, and it was cordoned off in a garden in Coles Crescent.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Officers were keeping an eye on the animal, which had come up from a nearby coastal inlet.<\/p>\n

“He looks at you, but – he is a big animal,” Parkinson said.<\/p>\n

“So from my perspective I’m just keeping in mind that he is from the wild and … although he does look cute and cuddly, I don’t know if I’d get too close to him.”<\/p>\n

Resident Preity Nabi said she saw the seal knocking its head on her neighbour’s door, trying to get in.<\/p>\n

Department of Conservation staff and the Auckland Zoo were making plans to sedate the animal for relocation back to its own habitat.<\/p>\n

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It was not uncommon to see seals at P\u0101hurehure Inlet, Nabi said. And another neighbour said a few years ago a seal had also wandered about on some of the same streets.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0set up during an earlier visit to Papakura seal visit has also sprung back into life, dropping a tweet: “Kia ora koutou e te wh\u0101nau – good to be back!”<\/p>\n

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A seal made it’s way through Papakura streets on 30 June, until police and DoC rangers caught up with it in Coles Crescent.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Supplied\/ Preity Nabi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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