Otter super-fan treated to her dream day out to meet the UK's only sea otters

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An otter superfan has had her decade-long dream come true when she took a trip to meet the only sea ones in the UK.  Mary Heathcote, 70, has been a self-confessed "otter-holic" for over 60 years and even has over 500 pieces of memorabilia dedicated to them in her house.  But her biggest dream, to meet a sea otter, finally came true when she visited the SEA LIFE Centre in Birmingham and met Ozzy and Ola.  Mary was able to get up close with the pair - even feeding and shaking paws with them.

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00:00 How was it meeting the otters today?

00:01 Oh, amazing. Absolutely amazing.

00:04 It's a dream come true to actually get this to happen before lockdown.

00:10 So we're talking getting them since they arrived three years ago.

00:14 I wanted to come and see the only UK sea otters.

00:19 And you know, dreams come true today.

00:22 All otters are my favourite animal.

00:25 I support them every way which I can. Every species of otter is perfect and priceless.

00:33 When I was younger, they were in so in danger.

00:37 Nearly all otters.

00:39 People don't know there are different otters.

00:42 An otter's an otter and what's that?

00:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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