IN a bizarre yet adorable discovery a New Zealand man has found a seal pup in his paddock, which is located 10km from the nearest beach.

Dee Knapp was walking through his Southland paddock checking for new lambs when he spotted something out of place and captured the moment when he realised that it was baby seal sitting among his cattle and sheep.

“What the hell, that’s a baby seal,” he said as he gets closer to the lost pup.

After finding the little seal and seeing no sign of its mother, Knapp called the Department of Conservation (DOC) who advised him to leave the animal where it was and it would eventually find its way back to the water, according to New Zealand news outlet 1NewsNow.

DOC Science Advisor, Laura Boren, said that policy is to leave the animal as is unless it is stuck or in imminent danger.

“Our advice is to never touch or handle a seal — they can be very aggressive if threatened and it is also a breach of the Marine Mammals Protection Act,” she said.

But Knapp was reportedly worried that other animals would attack the two-week-old pup so he took the animal inside in a blanket and fed it before releasing the tiny seal into the ocean at Blue Cliff beach.