Find out about Silver our resident seal
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Silver, our resident and much loved seal, died on 3 June 2008 after a long illness at the age of nine.

Silver was brought to Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary in June 1999 after being found by a group of schoolchildren abandoned on a beach in Whiteness. She arrived with a crushed pelvis that left her rear flippers completely paralysed, and as a result we could not release her back into the wild.

Silver was always a happy and contented seal, enjoying the attention of the many people who came to see her over the years. She often performed for them, swimming at full speed, or rolling on her back and sinking to the bottom of her pool, and was an expert at diving just as someone was about to take her photograph.

She became unwell due to her long term injuries more than a year ago and since then her health has gradually declined. She finally died on 3 June, peacefully in the pool which had been her home since it was installed in 2003.

Silver will be sadly missed. She brought a great deal of joy to everyone at the sanctuary and the many folk that came to see her.