"Calls for rescue of abandoned pets in Fukushima grow louder as time runs out"

The Mainichi Daily News of Japan has reported that a movement to rescue stranded pets and livestock in the evacuated (of humans, anyway) "no-go zone" around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant -- started by a single pet owner -- is growing as pets undoubtedly succumb to starvation. A veterinarian, who obtained special permission to enter the no-entry zone to investigate the state of livestock, went around feeding abandoned cats and dogs. The vet reported seeing abandoned pets everywhere, and that some dogs were found sitting waiting for their owners' return in front of their front door. Green Action Japan posted a YouTube video concerning pets left behind near Fukushima Daiichi in the earliest weeks of this catastrophe.