While Kai called Animal Control, the pup showed off, wiggling along a railing on his belly, two stories above the ground.
The sea lion was taken to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, where volunteers named him Fiddler, after the Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
Staff there say he is underweight, probably because he was recently weaned and having trouble finding food on his own.
They say sea lions are mobile and curious, and have been found everywhere from a restaurant kitchen to a public restroom.
