Fukashima's abandoned cats and dogs

Run_to_da_hills

I have seen various videos and clips showing dogs and cats that have been left abandoned by people that have evacuated the 20KM exclusion zone. I often wonder how many of these will survive and would they eventually turn feral.

From some reports people have difficulty trying to rescue their pets. One video shows a group of four, seem quite friendly and another a starving bulldog.



Various threads on the subject.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134844645

Beginning and nine minutes into video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ3pPuL8&feature=player_embedded

Bradidup

There is enough problems with abandoned cats and dogs in this country without having to worry about them in Japan. :rolleyes:

Shanao

Bradidup wrote: »

There is enough problems with abandoned cats and dogs in this country without having to worry about them in Japan. :rolleyes:

Wow, there's some compassion.

Run_to_da_hills

Bradidup wrote: »

There is enough problems with abandoned cats and dogs in this country without having to worry about them in Japan. :rolleyes:

Difference here is you got a mass number of abandoned creachures all at once which would have come from loving homes and more than likely wouldn't know how to fend for themselves..

See how peaceful they are were with camera crews.

chucken1

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Difference here is you got a mass number of abandoned creachures all at once which would have come from loving homes and more than likely wouldn't know how to fend for themselves..

See how peaceful they are were with camera crews.

http://www.globalanimal.org/2011/03/22/how-to-help-japan-pets/32243/

Run_to_da_hills

I wonder if the radiation has much of an effect on them?

I know from Chernobyl some animals thrived on the nuclear wastelands inside of the exclusion zone.

Cookie_Monster

nice the way the camera team just stand there and film them rather than doing something useful like collecting them all up and bringing them to a centre

Run_to_da_hills

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

nice the way the camera team just stand there and film them rather than doing something useful like collecting them all up and bringing them to a centre

They wouldn't have had necesssary equipment, experience or space to handle them also the risk of radiation contamination.

tallus

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I wonder if the radiation has much of an effect on them?

I know from Chernobyl some animals thrived on the nuclear wastelands inside of the exclusion zone.

Saw a tv doc about those animals, most of them have a lifespan that ends before radiation sickness and related problems can take hold so it was kind of beneficial to them in a weird way.
It's Heartbreaking to see so many pets left abandoned like that though.

Run_to_da_hills

These must have escaped from a kennels or breeder.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photojournal/graph/photojournal/1.html

Run_to_da_hills

Dog-lovers brave Fukushima nuclear danger zone to save abandoned pets

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376743/Dog-lovers-brave-Fukushima-nuclear-danger-zone-save-abandoned-pets.html?ito=feeds-newsxml