UPDATE: January 2006
On 12th of December 2005, Samson weighing a convincing 35 kg along with Sooty weighing 31kgs, both pups were set out on to the shore at a secluded sea loch two hours drive from the sanctuary. There is a colony of seals at the mouth of the Loch where the pups are able to haul out after their first taste of the wild since their rescue. It is a great site because it is privately owned land meaning there are few passing humans that might distract newly released pups from the main job in hand of becoming wild again.
Both pups were released from their transport boxes at the same time; they both flopped down into the water at the same time. They played in the shallows and seaweed together for quite a while. Then as if it was the most natural thing in the world, they swam out into the depths of the loch and that was the last we saw of them. Good luck Sooty and Samson.
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