In a small seaside town in Ireland, Sammy the seal makes a daily appearance to beg fish from the fishmonger. I don’t know how this behavior started, but I suspect someone from the store gave him a fish. The rest is history. The YouTube notes:
Sammy the Seal begs for fish outside a restaurant in Wicklow Town, Ireland in this funny seal video caught on camera. According to local reports, Sammy was spotted being shooed back into the sea by a fishmonger this morning (November 22). In this file footage, Sammy is engaging in his daily ritual – emerging from the Broad Lough river and proceeding to kick up a fuss outside the restaurant. Eventually the owner of the restaurant gives in and brings out a fish, which he gives to the expectant creature. Sammy then flops back into the water.
But. . . Sammy returns!
Were I the fishmonger, I’d be in a dilemma now, as you can’t just stop feeding that adorable animal, but he also risks his life flopping into the road. I suppose he could use Sammy to increase business, with a motto like, “Our fish is so fresh that a seal leaves the ocean to get it!” Then, with the increased business, Sammy could get more fish.
Love it, including the coocoo 😻
Sampling
Yertle the TurtleMitch McConnell, when the hack senate majority leader shut down Elizabeth Warren from reading the widow King’s letter during former AG Sessions’s confirmation hearings?So now we know what Bill Bailey does when he’s not on tv or doing comedy tours, he’s a fish monger and seal wrangler.
Sammy appeared on WEIT almost exactly a year ago HERE. The full story is far more interesting than that presented by Newsflare in the above video. Below is the video from Wicklow Tourism explaining Sammy the Seal gets fed by the Wicklow town fishmonger daily [I don’t know what happens on Sundays] at 9am, 1pm & 4pm, but they want Sammy to accept the fish scraps only when he’s in the water, to stop him crossing the dangerous road. So when Sammy breaks the rules he’s not fed until he’s back in the water.
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: “Interview with Alan Hegarty, from the Lighthouse Restaurant and the Fishman shop”
https://youtu.be/6ihDQyUcHa4
Glad to learn that the fishmonger is concerned about Sammy crossing the road and that he stay wild. This situation could easily have made a real pest out of Sammy which might have ultimately led to problems for both parties but particularly poor results for the seal.
Seals are so damned cute it can be hard to see them as the exquisitely adapted predators that they are. I’d not have let those little dogs that close to the seawall were they mine!
Irish seals are smart – they can tell the time. Yes, when he gets older & hunting is harder maybe he’ll add two & four legged mammals to his menu.
Another Sammy video:
Sammy is wonderful. Love the accompanying music, too (unlike most of the cheesy music in animal videos).
I had written woonderful, but spellcheck slapped my wrist.
It’s the mural of the hot seal, “I’d slap that!”