RB24 Haupu passed on March 17, 2015 from toxoplasmosis. She had been brought into NOAA facility and was under veterinarian care.
Although she was a Kauai Girl, she was first seen on Oahu by Team Billand in 2013
This photo is from January 2015 just a couple of months before she died.
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I appreciate this Miss Donna!!!!!!!
She was a lovely, sweet soul with so much character.
Haupu came into our lives at Makaha. We had the call, we went to make the id and couldnt. She finally moved, and we got the tag shot of RB24/25. We still didnt know who she was. At that time she was very thin .
We called in the TAGS and got the id. A female from Kauai about 4 to 5 years old who was treated for a DOG BITE with antibiotics and had disappeared from Kauai after that.
Haupu came to us all the way from Kauai and was with us for two years.
She picked up weight, and was looking so beautiful, that face just so sweet.
She got pregnant and we watched her like a hawk, then disappeared from the west side.
Later found at Kaena Pt, with her pup next to her dead.
She got pregnant again, we watched her grow fat, was anxious about her birthing.
Haupu's behavior changed with this birth, she was given an antibiotic at White Plains and got better.
One day in Lagoon 4, we found her floating, and she seemed anxious, we had to leave but a volunteer named Warren Miles took over for us. We left...with two ladies screaming at us, WE DIDNT HEAR. The two ladies went to Warren to tell him, they found a baby seal at the bottom of the lagoon.
Warren Miles, being the man he was, went to get a net called the authorities and us.
By time we got back, Warren got a man to go retrieve the little pup...
When I saw the little pup, my heart broke into a billion pieces. NOAA came to retrieve the body, Haupu still at Lagoon 4 floating . THe pup was a Male.
Later Haupu died just 12 days later of TOXO.
She was creamated, we had a ceremony that was put together by Dana Jones at Banyans KoOlina. Auntie Nettie said chants for Haupu. Dana Jones put her ashes in a beautiful lahala basket. Some of the volunteers made it out to Banyans...and there Haupu and her lost son were scattered off shore to be free to roam the ocean in PEACE.
So thanks MISS DONNA for not forgetting a sweet Hawaiian Monk seal called Haupu RB24.
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