Mystery as abandoned dogs near nuclear power plant turn bright blue
Wild footage reveals that several dogs living near a nuclear power plant have turned blue, baffling the workers taking care of them.
Wild images show several dogs near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant turning blue, baffling workers taking care of them.
The alarming-looking dogs are descendants of pets abandoned after the nuclear disaster there nearly 40 years ago, New York Post reports.
They’ve been found wandering around the Chernobyl exclusion zone this month, according to Dogs of Chernobyl, an affiliate of the non-profit Clean Futures Fund that cares for the dogs there.
“We are on the ground now catching dogs for sterilisation, and we came across three dogs that were completely blue,” the organisation said in an Instagram post with more than 330,000 views.
“We are not sure exactly what is going on.”
Locals said that the dogs’ fur was normal just a week earlier.
“We do not know the reason, and we are attempting to catch them so we can find out what is happening,” the spokesman added.
“Most likely, they’re getting into some sort of chemical.”
While they are blue, they appear to be “very active and healthy,” the organisation said.
Each year, Dogs of Chernobyl, which started in 2017, provides medical care and food for the estimated 700 dogs residing in the 18-square-mile exclusion zone.
The dogs are the descendants of the pets who were abandoned when people were forced to evacuate after a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986, in one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.
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