A temporary worker at the site, Tim Mollohan, adopted the dog and brought him home to Georgia on July 1, 2018. This 3-month-old puppy was rescued by The Clean Futures Fund at the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. On his return trip to the U.S., a mischeivous puppy that he named Freddy accompanied him.įreddy, who is three months old with a black and white spotted coat, was rescued with a litter in an auxiliary maintenance shed about 300 feet from the unit four nuclear reactor - the very reactor that exploded on April 26, 1986, precipitating the disaster, still one of the worst in nuclear history. She agreed that a Chernobyl puppy should share their home in Georgia once Mollohan came back to the country this month. When he saw a post about the adoption program on Facebook a few months ago, he called his wife. "Me and my colleagues always discussed how it would be cool to take one of our Chernobyl dogs home." "A lot of people start their day with a cup of coffee – I can't start my day unless I pet the dogs," he said. More than a dozen puppies gambol over to him when he arrives to work in the morning. "If you are a dog lover, come to Chernobyl – You will love it," a contractual worker who was supervising some of the clean up at the power plant over the last nine months, Tim Mollohan, told Newsweek. Clean Futures Fund has reported that the canine population has increased in recent years to as many as a thousand. The city remains mostly abandoned today, and the dogs that roam Chernobyl are thought to be the decedents of those deserted animals. Many of them left their pets behind, intending to come back for them later. SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty ImagesĪt the time of the nuclear blast, the residents of the nearby city, Pripyat, then home to 50,000 people, rushed to flee the radioactive fallout. "The dogs are the unintended victims of the accident, so anything we can do to improve their quality of life and to ensure that they have a better hope for the future, we are going to do," Hixson said.Ī volunteer of Clean Futures Fund (CFF) holds a stray puppy outside the improvised animals hospital just near the Chernobyl power plant on June 8, 2018. (When precisely has not yet been announced.) Applications will be rigorously screened to make sure that the dogs go to stable, loving homes.
The organization has already rescued another 15 puppies from two litters that will go up for adoption.
"It was a pretty powerful experience," Hixson said in the days that followed.
They had an emotional meeting with their adoptive families in America. Kennedy Airport in New York with 15 dogs that he and his team had rescued. That is why The Clean Futures Fund, an organization co-founded by Hixson in partnership with SPCA International, launched a rescue and adoption program to give the dogs a different, better life.
Those that do survive the winter have to contend with predators like the wolves and boars that run freely though the 1,000 square-mile exclusion zone. But their main threat is not the radiation that this area is so famous for, he said. The Clean Futures Fund launched a rescue and adoption program that aims to give these animals a better shot at life. A stray puppy walks along abandoned train tracks near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Augnear Chornobyl, Ukraine.
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