Unique Heating Room Used to Save Baby Seal Pups and Other Animals Abandoned Near Seattle
Abandoned baby seal pups are a common occurrence on the beaches of Puget Sound. Sometimes the mother seal will have gone out to get food, only to get captured or injured, resulting in her inability to get back to her pup,
(prHWY.com) May 31, 2012 - Seattle, WA -- Abandoned baby seal pups are a common occurrence on the beaches of Puget Sound. Sometimes the mother seal will have gone out to get food, only to get captured or injured, resulting in her inability to get back to her pup, or sometimes humans interfere resulting in the mother not finding her pup. No matter what the reason, these baby pups need rest, rehabilitation, and help before they can be released into the wild and a local Seattle heating company is helping in this process.
"Many of the baby seal rescue shelters didn't have the equipment they needed to keep the pups safe and healthy", said animal shelter director, Tristan Griggs.
"The pups can sometimes become so chilled from the weather that they need to be warmed up instantly, and we would have to wrap hundreds of blankets around them. Sometimes that wasn't enough, and we'd lose a pup or two."
The Needle Heating and Cooling Company stepped up to help these seal pups in need, and developed an enclosed room that can reach extremely high temperatures. These rooms can be used to help instantly warm the seal pups, and help with their rehabilitation.
"We discovered that if we forced a bunch of heat into one room it could help the pups recover", said Needle Heating and Cooling Company's CEO, Sandy Hughes.
"So we set to work developing a room that could be used just for this exact purpose. It took several hours of hard labor to rearrange the existing heating and cooling system to accommodate the forced heat, but it is worth it if we save a few baby pups."
The enclosed room has already been used by the shelter to rescue six small pups that were abandoned by their mother right before the summer season. These pups were rehabilitated and released into the wild all thanks to the forced heat room.
"The good thing about this room is it can help with abandoned bird eggs", said shelter director Griggs. "Sometimes we just don't have the ability to warm the eggs to what they need to be warmed to, even when we use those heat lamps. This room gives us the ability to save not just baby seal pups, but birds and other creatures. I am so excited."
The Needle Heating and Cooling Company says it has been contacted by several local animal shelters to use the same
heating technology to develop a room in their shelters.
"This is becoming increasingly popular", said Hughes. "I feel so happy that I am helping so many animals heal and re-enter the wild."
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