The dogs of Chernobyl and the guards who care for them.

[Catherine]

The whole Chernobyl situation has been very interesting. We know that nature has returned and the land gone wild again. Some day all trace of humans will be gone. Packs of wolves are a sign of that rewilding.

The dogs however are not part of that natural return to the wild. They are domestic dogs that seem to have returned to the time when dogs and humans interacted, but the dogs were not our dependents.  The guards are like the first humans that interacted with dogs. The dogs connect with them on their own terms even though the guards are helping them.  It will be interesting to see what comes out of Chernobyl as more time goes by.