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Sprig + Fern The Meadows in Richmond, New Zealand, has gone viral after posting surveillance footage on Facebook and Instagram showing a seal galumphing through its establishment.
New Zealand's Department of Conservation was notified about the sighting
The seal was released on nearby Rabbit Island, per the Associated Press
A bar in New Zealand had an unforgettable guest for all the right reasons.
Sprig + Fern The Meadows in Richmond, New Zealand, has gone viral after posting surveillance footage onFacebookandInstagramshowing a seal pup galumphing through its establishment.
"We... this is a first!" wrote the bar next to the hilarious video backed by a remix of theMission: Impossibletheme song.
The clip begins with the seal entering the bar and running underneath a table. After being spotted by a patron who walks towards it, the seal runs away and galumphs through other tables in the establishment.
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Co-owner Bella Evans told theAssociated Pressshe assumed it was a dog — being that she runs a pet-friendly bar — before ultimately taking a closer look.
As the animal makes its way through another area of the bar, the patron from earlier is seen laughing in the social media clip as he slowly follows behind the seal, a coat in hand, seemingly trying to catch it.
According to Evans, the patron was trying to usher the seal out the back door to no avail. The seal hid in a restroom next to a toilet, as seen in the video, and ultimately under a dishwasher.
While the bar said the seal "wandered in all on its own for a little look around, absolutely stealing the show," it was ultimately caught by someone at the bar. It was seen in a dog crate later in the video.
Evans told the Associated Press that another customer got the crate from their home to help lure the seal inside it with a "pizza topping the pub was offering as a special."
"I just went to my fiancé, I said, 'grab the salmon! Grab the salmon,' " she recalled.
The clip later shows the seal, still inside the cage, being carried into a vehicle with a Department of Conservation (New Zealand) logo.
The conservation agency had already been searching for the seal, having received four calls about it that day, the Associated Press reported.
"The Department of Conservation popped in shortly after and safely picked up the pup to make sure it's all good and back where it should be," said Sprig + Fern The Meadows. According to the Associated Press, the seal was released on nearby Rabbit Island.
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"There's been the running joke that we've got the seal of approval," Evans told the Associated Press.
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