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DK504

(3,847 posts)
2. This makes me sick.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 12:41 PM
Sep 2017

The very least people could do is perform spay and neutering for these guys. Allowing packs of dogs to keep reproducing and reproducing isn't fair to the females, it can kill them to keep having litters and not regaining the strength after giving birth. It is cruel to let these little guys running free to be inconstant danger of living in the elements and subject to accumulating radiation poisoning.

Removing them as puppies, even to areas further from the zone would give them a better quality of life.

Are they going to keep rebuilding the 'protection' cover every hundred years or think it will stop the poisoning?

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
3. Agreed. Did not enjoy this video.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 12:55 PM
Sep 2017

Watching these cute puppies, I kept thinking...who feeds them? how do they survive, do they have medical problems? I'm sure they could be caught and spayed/neutered by someone in haszmat gear.

if they're cleaning up this mess for the next 50 years, they'll need to do something about the dogs sooner than later.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
8. Totally agree with you and Merlot.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 07:26 AM
Sep 2017

Shame on them for not neutering/spaying these sweet critters.

Wish there were something we could do. I donation to more than a dozen animal rescue/ humane agencies here and three I trust abroad. But the Russians are scammers. They should ask those frickin Russian billionaires to kick in some cash to help. Yeah, fat chance, right. 😒



LisaL

(44,962 posts)
9. Per the video, puppies could be radioactive. So seems like spay and neuter is out of the question.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 07:44 AM
Sep 2017

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
4. packs of stray dogs aren't fun but it is amazing how well the wildlife does without man ruining land
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 01:28 PM
Sep 2017

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
6. The same is happening in the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan. Wild boars have made a comeback, and
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 02:13 PM
Sep 2017

the land is rapidly returning to nature in spite of some mowing that is done.

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