A family was surprised to find a very curious baby seal in their house in the suburbs of Tauranga, New Zealand, not far from the beach, which injured the owners’ cat and spent more time in the hallway of the house while the children were sleeping upstairs, reports The Guardian.

Phil Ross, who lives in Mount Maunganui, a suburb of Tauranga in New Zealand, said his wife went to the gym at 6 a.m. on Wednesday and when she returned, she found a cute little baby in the house, which is 150 meters from the beach. seal.

At that point, the handsome criminal got a little scared and went down the hall to the guest room, Phil Ross said.

The baby seal managed to get into the house through the cat door after a small territorial dispute with the family cat Coco, which it allegedly chased into the house.

A baby seal injured the family cat

The baby seal spent an hour alone in the house, in the hallway and on the couch while the children slept upstairs and was unharmed until Phil’s wife managed to get her out the front door and into the garden.

A Department of Conservation ranger returned the seal, nicknamed “Oscar” by his family, to the sea after a morning filled with calls about the seals.

After the marine offender left, Koko the cat avoided going downstairs because she was “obviously very traumatised”.

It’s unusual to see seals roaming the area around this time, says Phil Ross, a biologist by trade who, unfortunately for him, wasn’t home when the mammal entered the house.