It was around mid-morning, when she had a couple of neighbours around, that she came face to face with the would-be intruder ... a seal. Having had an intruder on the property in the past, she got up and turned all the lights on. While the seal's temporary hosts had seen the occasional seal on the beachfront, they had never seen one near their property. "He'd been scratching at the door earlier and wanted to come in - I think he wanted to get warm." It was when the little seal's host went outside that she spotted what he had been up to while attempting to find somewhere comfortable to rest up on land.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 08, 2016 06:45 UTC