On April 27, the workers from Clean Futures Fund, Chernobyl NPP and NOVARKA company have brought out 12 puppies from the New Safe Confinement construction site.
The process is taken place under 5-year project “Chernobyl Dogs” for sterilization and vaccination of dogs from Chernobyl Exclusion Zone started in 2017. The project goal is to reduce animal population naturally by means of sterilizing them, therefore, to create safer conditions for the employees of Chernobyl NPP and Exclusion Zone.
The Clean Futures Fund Co-founder Lucas Hixson comments the process of dog transportation: “We finally got permission to start rescuing some of the puppies from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and bring them back to America for adoption and to go to forever homes. Today we are going to bring 12 dogs out of local zone. In total we would like to see up to 200 adopted dogs”.
“The dogs are going to go through dosimetry check, then get washed. We are going to take them to Slavutych, where we have established puppies sanctuary at the hippodrome. They are going to stay there for the next 45 days.
We have special trainers that will be working with them every day. On the weekends people will be able to come and play with the puppies at the hippodrome. Everything is ready for this. Then in June these dogs will fly back with us to the USA and we will bring them to the families that are adopting them”, Mr. Hixson shares his plans.
Clean Futures Fund is an American non-profit organization designed to assist the communities affected by industrial accidents like the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
In June, the team consisting of 15 veterinarians and about 80 veterinary assistants will come to the site to start the second year of the project called “Chernobyl Dogs”.
