Show STRICT discipline FOR BA BABY SEAL mother faithfully instruct young in lore of sea alaska maternal discipline la Is us as pronounced among the hair seal real families as among human beings according to men who nho have passed many years along the shores ot of cook inlet from the time a baby seal is laid snugly within a bed of dry seaweed until he receives a final spanking and la is directed to rustle for himself ho he Is subjected to unrelenting lentini discipline contrary to popular belief a baby seal la Is as helpless in the water at birth as a human baby aou would id be it must be taught to swim and instructed la in all the lore of seal life including how to hunt food and escape its enemies diaries charles coach who ho has made hair cal beat hunting bunting a business for years says gays he has baa watched a mother seal teaching her baby to swim gwim the mother would flounder out on oll the rookery gather the baby under her flipper and slip tare carefully fully into the water suspending the baby on her nipper she would bark grunt whine and to indicate what was desired it if the file baby refused to perform it wa was a effectively spanked with the mothers mother a flipper the young seal gradually learns to sim by floundering a f few ew etro strokes es at a time with etli the mother mother snatching it from danger every time it becomes exhausted or starts to sink some of the beachcombers beach combers adopt baby seals its as pets they become as f faithful as dogs does tind land if one decides to banah them are as hard to get rid of as aa cats an instance was cited where a baby seal was taken out to sea in the hope that it would reunite wih its herd about midnight there was a plaintive wall at the cabin do door or like the traditional cat the seal had come back ile he howled until he was admitted to the family circle ciral e and fed a piece of fish elsh |