Turns out what she wanted to do was swim and snack on treats.
“Charlotte is doing well and enjoying interacting with guests and divers,” the aquarium noted in an April 27 post, confirming that her puppy watch was underway. “Her favorite thing to eat this week was the scallops along with the rigs. Thank you for your patience and kindness during Charlotte's journey.”
And just when things started to feel a little, well, roof, the owner of the organization Brenda Ramer confirmed to WLOS News 13 that the ray it wasn't waiting.
In a May interview, Ramer told the Asheville outlet that Charlotte does indeed have a reproductive disease, and veterinarians have diagnosed the ray with diapause, noting, “We're still trying to understand a lot of these terms ourselves.”
What they weren't delving so deeply into was the social media speculation that the whole thing had been made up to create a splash.
“I can't control what people think,” he continued, then added, “I can only tell you what we know for sure. I've never been a liar. This was not a scam. This was not made up. but people do people have their own thoughts.”
