Packs of dogs in eastern Russia inexplicably turn pink and blue.
The bizarre phenomenon occurred in and around the city of Dzerzhinsk, about 242 miles east of Moscow, near the abandoned chemical plant Dzerzhinskoye Orgsteklo that once produced highly toxic hydrocyanic acid, which is also a core ingredient in a once widely used ‘Prussian blue’. pigment. Experts think this detail may help explain why some puppies are now blue through and through, including their feces, veterinarians said.
Without clearer details, Dmitry Karelkin, chief physician at Zoozashchita Veterinary Hospital, officially blamed the blue tint on “some sort of chemical,” which does not appear to have caused any bodily harm to the animals.
Meanwhile, researchers from the Lobachevsky Research Institute of Chemistry at Nizhny Novgorod State University, as well as the Committee for State Veterinary Surveillance, found “no signs of irritating chemical burns,” while the results of the blood and stool tests revealed no significant toxicity. .
The blue dogs will reportedly remain under close observation for about 20 days. Meanwhile, no announcements have been made specifically to target pink dogs, according to news agency East2West. However, some are calling for an investigation into a chemical dump in another area of Dzerzhinsk, where 300,000 tons of toxic waste was unloaded after the Cold War. The nearby Kristall defense factory was also implicated in local reports.
East2West has reported that city officials are calling the claims “exaggerated.”
