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A nonprofit taking care of dogs in Ukraine’s Chernobyl exclusion zone are trying to solve the mystery of why some of the canines have turned “completely blue.”
Dogs of Chernobyl, which is affiliated with the Clean Futures Fund charity, said workers were out trying to trap dogs to be spayed and neutered in the Chernobyl area recently when they spotted the unusually colored canines.
“We are on the ground now catching dogs for sterilization, and we came across three dogs that were completely blue,” the Clean Futures Fund said in an Instagram post. “We are not sure exactly what is going on.”
Local residents said the dogs had not been blue one week earlier.
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The approximately 700 dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone are descendants of the pets abandoned when the area was evacuated during the nuclear power plant meltdown in 1986.
The Clean Futures Fund said the blue color is unlikely to be a result of any radioactivity.
“Most likely they’re getting into some sort of chemical,” such as the blue liquid from a leaking portable toilet, the charity said.
Officials said the dogs appear healthy and active despite their unusual color. Workers are continuing to attempt to capture the blue dogs in the hopes of finding an answer to the mystery.
