1 - On a chilly, gray morning in late May, the insistent ringing of the phone brought me dashing up from the garden.  It was Bob, my husband, who was working on a summer cottage near our home on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

"Nan, get the kids and come over here," he said.  "There's something you should see."

Glad for the excuse to escape the blackflies, I loaded the kids into the car and drove the short distance to the cottage.

The "something" turned out to be a harbor seal pup - a forlorn and furry little bundle huddled against a large rock at the high-tide line.  My first instinct was to offer immediate aid and comfort to the frightened creature, as one would any lost baby, but I knew better and resisted the urge. 
 
2 - Most seal pups that people find "abandoned" on reefs, rocks and beaches are not abandoned at all; they are merely waiting for their mothers to return from fishing.  Although it is unusual for their mothers to leave them on a mainland beach, it isn't unheard-of.

Bob and I decided to call the Department of Wildlife to ask what we should do.  The local game warden told us to wait for a complete tide change - about six hours - to see if the pup's mother returned.  With no sighting of the mother, we called Steve Katona, director of Allied Whale, a marine research program at College of the Atlantic in nearby Bar Harbor.  Steve gave us permission to foster the pup ourselves, under his supervision, until it was healthy enough to be returned to the wild.

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