These Stray Dogs Are Being Dyed Blue Thanks To This Irresponsible Industrial Company

With so many blue dogs running around, a company's illegal dumping of blue dye has been uncovered.

Mikayla

• Published in Animals
• September 20, 2017

People have been accessorizing their dogs for many years. They put them in bags, in little clothes, funky collars, and even sometimes safely color their fur. All of these practices are well and good, as long as they are safe for the dog and don't put them in fear or under distress.

Famous personalities are known to start cute doggy trends, like painting your dogs to look like other animals (Tigers, Giraffes, or even other breeds of dog are popular options.). 

The blue dogs that have been appearing in Taloja, India however, have not been colored safely at all, nor was the color put there on purpose.

Dogs have been seen wandering the streets looking like a bad Halloween costume. But the truth behind what happened to them isn't cute or funny at all, in fact, it's shocking and downright dangerous! 

Most of these blue dogs are strays, are were turned blue after a dye factory illegally dumped products into the Kasadi River. To be turned blue the dogs would have had to have contact with this polluted water, by falling, or jumping in! Imagine if they drank it!

As cute as this paint job could be if it was done safely, sadly this dye is most likely poisonous.

And it's not just one or two poor pooches...

It is almost impossible to tell how many dogs could have been affected by this polluted water. Although SPCA workers are trying their best to help the dogs affected, much more are without help, and being strays they don't have a family to go home to take care of them.

Local workers have been able to lessen the effects of the dye by getting it out in a few consecutive washes. Once washed from their fur the dangers that come with the chemicals are somewhat lessened but without this help from people the dye will eventually cause some significant health problems.

Not to mention how dangerous it is for the company to be illegally dumping the waste into the river instead of properly disposing of it.

One poor dog has even gone blind...

Luckily word is spreading about the company's actions and angry people aren't having it! The company has been put on notice and is under investigation for potential criminal activity.

This sadly cannot help the dogs that have already been affected, but it can help more dogs in the future to stay healthy and have safer water to drink.

Thanks to Twitter and other Social Media outlets the story has spread far and wide. The more people who know about this shocking activity and speak out about it means more pressure on Indian officials to take the matter seriously and stop it from happening and putting more animals and people in danger. 

Unfortunately, it seems that it's not just dogs being affected. Birds, bugs, and any mammal that comes in contact with the water is turning blue and at risk of terrible side effects aswell!

As much as we can wish things like this didn't happen, they do, regularly.

Obviously, the public is reacting to the situation, with a mixture of anger, confusion, disbelief, and just pure heartbreak. No animal deserves to suffer from something like this...

However, there is some good news! The company has been shut down! 

All thanks to the Navi Mumbai Animal Protection Cell, who took action with the help of social media attention backing them!

Thanks to all the media attention officials took action around the situation quickly and shut it down before angry people could really take action.

No more animals will be hurt by the poisonous dumping of that dye, but sadly those that did still have to live with the effects of it, and people are worried about the strays or homeless...

But people are also worried about other people. And rightly so! If those chemicals dumped in the water were harmful enough to make a dog blind, what could they do to humans who touched the water? Or someone who drank it? OR the people who work in the factory up and close with the dye!?

Fingers crossed that no one else is harmed by this terrible dye. And let's also hope that this incident opens the eyes to other people, and companies, so that things like this won't happen again.

Mikayla