Adoptable Dogs Are Free Of Radiation
Cleaning and vaccinating a dog who has spent its life in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is not enough to make the pup available for adoption. For a dog to be eligible for adoption, it has to be decontaminated in an official facility so that it is free of all but trace amounts of radiation.
The dogs spend 45 days in quarantine to ensure that they are entirely free of any communicable diseases and that they are healthy enough for international travel. They have to be able to get the same health certificates as to any other animal that travels into a country like the United States.