This week pictures of stray dogs with very unnatural-looking blue fur blew up on VK, a Facebook-style social network in Russia.
The dogs were spotted near an abandoned chemical plant in the city of Dzerzhinsk, which is about 230 miles east of Moscow. People were very concerned about the potential exposure to dangerous chemicals the dogs may have suffered.
Seven of the dogs were rescued and taken to a veterinarian's in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Photo: Anastasija Makarycheva/Sputnik
Although the plant closed six years ago, some buildings still house chemicals like copper sulfate, which the dogs may have been rolling around, thus blueing themselves.Russian animal rights activists got involved and managed to get seven of the dogs to a veterinarian, who found that the dogs had no health complications, blue fur aside.
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