Mr. Covington offered a choice. I choose the first proposal – move the seals.
\nThe seals and sea lions are inhabiting developed beaches that have cost the taxpayers of San Diego millions of dollars\u2026.for lifeguard stations, stairs, walls, walkways, and restrooms.
\nThe seals and sea lions can legally be displaced from the developed beaches and they can find Undeveloped beaches to lay on. Maybe they will go to the Coronado Islands. That would be great, as they wouldn\u2019t be bothered by anyone.
\nThey\u2019re animals, so they\u2019re adaptable. They\u2019ll do fine somewhere else. They were somewhere else before the city allowed them to take over Children\u2019s Pool and La Jolla Cove.
\nThe seals and sea lions do pose threats to humans. Their waste pollutes the beach sand and ocean water. They carry diseases such as tuberculosis, leptospirosis, brucellosis, mycoplasmosis, blastomycosis, lobomycosis, mycobacterium marinum, calicivirus, influenza, poxvirus and others. And they can attract predators, such as sharks.
\nIf you had rats or mice or termites living in your house, would you move out and let them have the house? Or would you kick them out of “their home?” Would you even kill them? After all, they have a right to live! And they need a place to have babies \u2026and rest.
\nSince you “swam in the cove a few times and got cold,” you should get a wetsuit and try again. Because you don\u2019t swim in the Cove, your opinion on what other people should do there is not relevant.
\nA lot of people swim in the Cove every day of the year, even in winter, and without wetsuits.
\nI agree that the cove is a great place to “enjoy 360-degree views of La Jolla”. Thecove is one of the best beaches in California. Thousands of people swim there in the summer. The cove is a great place to swim, snorkel, dive, body surf, picnic, and lay on the beach\u2026.as long as it\u2019s not contaminated with pinniped poop.
\nDan Truitt<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr. Covington offered a choice. I choose the first proposal – move the seals. The seals and sea lions are inhabiting developed beaches that have cost the taxpayers of San Diego millions of dollars\u2026.for lifeguard stations, stairs, walls, walkways, and restrooms. The seals and sea lions can legally be displaced from the developed beaches and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Letter to the editor: Move pinnipeds from developed beaches","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}