Wobbegong was in a very strange place.
“Hello.”
He’d never been somewhere with a floor
and a door.
Where was he?
And when could he go back to his home in the wild? 7 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:17,940 Well, at least this place was better
than where he’d been a few weeks ago.
Stuck on a stony beach in England,
feeling so sick that he could barely move.
He couldn’t even bark for help,
but then something special happened.
People came to his rescue,
but when they put a towel over his eyes to calm him down,
Wobbegong was like, “Uh, what?!”
Until he started to like it?
(cooing)
It was sort of soothing
in a towel-over-the-eyes kinda way.
The people knew that Wobbegong needed their help
because his nose was full of seal snot.
Ghah!
And after they gave him fresh water to drink,
he was already feeling a little better.
But this rescue was just getting started.
His rescuers put him in a special seal transport carrier
and carried him gently over the hard rocks.
Wobbegong wondered where they were taking him.
Were they going to put him back in the ocean?
Nope! They couldn’t do that just yet.
They put Wobbegong in the back of their truck
and took him to the vet.
Wobbegong had no idea what a vet was,
but he liked the feeling of their fingers on his fur,
and by now he really trusted his rescuers.
The vet could see that Wobbegong was too thin.
He’d lost a lot of blubber,
and seals need their blubber to stay warm in the cold ocean.
So they gave him his favorite food.
Wobbegong tried to eat, but even that was hard to do,
which meant he was still too sick to go back to the sea,
and then the vet did something weird.
They put medicine in a hose
and mist-blasted it all over Wobbegong.
He was nervous about the mist,
but when he breathed it in...
his seal snot vanished,
and suddenly he was hungry again!
Maybe he was ready to go back to the ocean now.
Nope.
His rescuers thought he still needed a little more time,
so they moved him to the place with the floor and the door.
It wasn’t his ocean home, but it kinda rocked
because there was a pool to swim in!
Ah!
It felt good to be off dry land,
and even better...
the pool came with a whole herd of seals,
who were working on getting stronger together.
(barking)
Soon, Wobbegong was like a member of their family.
He was having the time of his life.
Every few days, Wobbegong’s rescuers
put him back in his carrier and weighed him
to see if his blubber was thick enough
for him to go back to the ocean.
So every day, Wobbegong ate as much as he could.
“C’mon, blubber!”
And then one day, his rescuers did something different.
They put him in his carrier, but they didn’t weigh him.
Did he finally have enough blubber?
His rescuers put him in a truck...
with his seal fam!
Wobbegong was like, “We’re going someplace special!”
“I can feel it!”
“Maybe back to the vet for a checkup,”
“or someplace with lots of food.”
“There better be a pool.”
But when Wobbegong finally saw where they were taking him,
he was so happy because they were on a beach,
with no floors or doors, just seals!
They were going back to the ocean!
When the rescuers opened the gate,
Wobbegong ran out as fast as he could,
with all his friends running right behind him.
No, seriously,
that is how seals run.
When he hit the water, he took one last look at his rescuers,
almost like he was saying, “Thank you.”
Then he splashed deeper and deeper into the sea.
No more doors or floors,
just waves and fish and freedom.