SAVING DOGS FROM CHERNOBYL.
A LOCAL ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER
WHO HAS WORKED ALL OVER THIS
COUNTRY IS NOW EXTENDING HIS
REACH TO THE UKRAINE.
HE IS SAVING ANIMALS NEAR THE
SITE OF A NUCLEAR DISASTER.
SINCE THE 80s DOGS HAVE ROAMED
FREE AND MULTIPLIED AND THAT
RESTRICTED ZONE.
IT IS A BOOMING POPULATION
AND THE MAN HELPING THOSE DOGS
JUST WANTS TO GIVE THEM A
BETTER LIFE.
SUMMER STRAY.
Reporter: THERE IS NO DOUBT
THAT HE LOVES ANIMALS.
HIS PASSION IS IMPROVING
PEOPLE'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH
THEM.
FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES HE
HAS WORKED WITH ANIMAL CONTROL.
HE HAS RESPONDED ACROSS THE
COUNTRY TO RESPOND TO DISASTERS
SUCH AS HURRICANE.
THIS TIME, HE WENT TO CHERNOBYL
AS IN CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE THE
SITE OF THAT 86 NUCLEAR REACTOR
DISASTER.
WHAT IS LEFT LOOKS LIKE THIS AS
SEEN IN THIS VIDEO LEAVING
HUNDREDS OF DOGS.
PETS LEFT BEHIND WHEN RESIDENTS
EVACUATED.
I WAS LEFT WITH THE FEELING
OF DANGER.
AFTER THE FIRST DAY IT WENT
AWAY.
Reporter: USED VACATION TIME
AS DIRECTOR OF ANIMAL CONTROL.
FOR THREE WEEKS HE WAS ASKED TO
JOIN VOLUNTEERS FROM AROUND THE
WORLD AS PART OF THE CLEAN
FUTURES FUND.
THE ORGANIZATION HELPS THE SO-
CALLED CHERNOBYL DOGS.
HE HELPED ROUNDUP HUNDREDS OF
DOGS BY TRANQUILIZING THEM.
THE ANIMALS WERE SPAYED OR
NEUTERED, VACCINATED AND
TAGGED.
SHARING DIFFERENT STORIES OF
THINGS THEY ARE DOING, BRINGING
BACK HOME SOME OF THE
TECHNIQUES.
Reporter: RESEARCHERS ARE
USING THE INFORMATION FOR LONG-
TERM STUDIES.
HE SAYS THE DOGS ARE NOT
RADIOACTIVE AND HE WAS
CONTINUALLY CHECKED.
A FEW THOUSAND WORKERS STILL
TAKE CARE OF THE ABANDONED SITE
AND THE DOGS.
THEY ALL OF THESE DOGS.
THEY FEED THEM AND GET CLOSE TO
THEM.
Reporter: LOOKING BACK HE
SAYS HE IS PROUD OF WHAT THEY
ACCOMPLISHED.
