Dr Jennifer Betz knows exactly what it looks like – mutant, radioactive super-dogs that talk rather than bark.

Last month, Dr Betz’s team spotted three blue dogs in Chernobyl, the restricted area surrounding the epicentre of the 1989 nuclear disaster.

One member filmed the feral dogs as they loitered around the woodland near the Ukrainian ghost town Pripyat, 60 miles north of Kyiv.

‘We wanted to catch them to sterilise them,’ the veterinary medical director of the Dogs of Chernobyl campaign told Metro. ‘We went back every day to find them, but they never showed.’

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