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Date: February 05, 2018 at 22:49:34
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Meet the dogs of Chernobyl – the abandoned pets |
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/05/dogs-chernobyl-abandoned-pets-stray-exclusion-zone |
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"Mon 5 Feb 2018 07.34 EST
Hundreds of stray dogs have learned to survive in the woods around the exclusion zone – mainly descendants of those left behind after the nuclear disaster, when residents were banned from taking their beloved pets to safety....
...There are approximately 300 stray dogs in the 2,600km² zone. They live among the moose and lynx, the hares and wolves that have also found a home here. But while the Mongolian horses and Belarusian bears were recently introduced to the area, and other animals have come in as opportunists, the dogs are native.
After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Pripyat and the surrounding villages were abandoned, and residents were not allowed to take their pets to safety. Chernobyl Prayer, a devastating oral history of the period, tells of “dogs howling, trying to get on the buses. Mongrels, alsatians. The soldiers were pushing them out again, kicking them. They ran after the buses for ages.” Heartbroken families pinned notes to their doors: “Don’t kill our Zhulka. She’s a good dog.” There was no mercy. Squads were sent in to shoot the animals. But some survived and it is mainly their descendants that populate the zone...."
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Date: February 15, 2018 at 16:10:26
From: long timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Meet the dogs of Chernobyl – the abandoned pets |
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and these innocents are who suffer the most after man
made disasters like this- where the country that
caused the unspeakable destruction has turned its back
on them.
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