Val Massie helped with caring for the seal pup found on Petroglyph Beach on June 20. The pup was flown the next day to the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, where it is gaining weight.
When Dan Trail took his dogs to play fetch on June 20 at Petroglyph Beach, the last thing he expected was to find himself involved in a statewide baby seal rescue mission. But when he reached for his tennis ball and noticed it lying on the tail of a 1-week-old lost seal pup, he sprang into action.
The seal - now called Rocky by her rescue team - was extremely dehydrated when Trail found her. Wedged in between two rocks, high above the receding tide, she was sucking in air on a warm June day.
But now, over a month after her rescue, Rocky is deemed healthy by the team of biologists at the Alaska...
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