Japanese risk radiation to rescue stranded dogs

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Source: AP via Seattle Times

When Etsumi Ogino saw a news photo of a pack of shelties wandering through an abandoned town near Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant, she thought of her own 13-year-old canine Kein and jumped into action.
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In the wee hours of Sunday morning, seven volunteers left Tokyo and drove over broken roads and past demolished houses to meet three other volunteers in the ghost town that Minami Soma has become. Some had prepared radiation suits and others wore simple vinyl raincoats.

The first two to arrive found the pack around the Odaka train station, near the owner's home, where the AP team had last seen them.
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It took a while to entice them with snacks, and six or seven were bundled into each car. The group saved 20 dogs in all....(more@link)

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014768660_apasjapanearthquakedogrescue.html

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Photos from April 7