From this week’s Popbitch - and no, it’s not about Kate and her friend Charlie…

Californian sea otter Morgan was abandoned as a pup, and taken into care by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter programmes, which attempts to rehabilitate parentless otters. But like so many products of the care system, it all went wrong.

When he was released back into the wild, Morgan became a serial killer paedophile… of baby seals. Morgan used to shag the seal pups and when he was done with them, hold them under water to drown them. He raped and killed about 20 seals off the Californian coast, at one time even attracting a copycat Son-Of-Morgan rapist wild otter.

After a year, naturalists finally managed to recapture Morgan. They considered castrating him but then decided that would leave him a non-contributing member of otter society, taking up valuable space in otter habitat. So they kept him in captivity, where he will only be allowed to have sex with female sea-otters. No doubt Morgan finds this rather dull.

There’s a Home Office policy somewhere in that. Though other fans of the animal kingdom may stay well clear - I doubt those extolling the virtues of penguins will be rushing to co-opt otters any time soon.

Update: Funnily enough, Jamie at Blood & Treasure has blogged the exact same thing before I did - a coincidence and nothing more, I assure you…

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 at 22:03:20 and is filed under General.