What about dogs in the Zapocalypse
I'm not talking about your own dog, but all the others whose owners are now zombies. Do you think they would form feral packs? Would they attack the zombies for easy meals? And if you came across a pack, would they attack you?
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Permalink Reply by Laz on -
They will all go feral if they are not looked after, and the vast majority will die or be killed fast. The ones which will survive will be the ones that still have the most of the wolf genes such as huskies or german sheperds etc..
the exception to the rule will be the small terrier types (yorkshire terrier, jack russel etc) who would find lots of available food (rats) which they are excellently suited to catch
there will be the tiny minority who have had been bred so far out of the natural type that they will wonder around stupidly or wait for owners to come home that never will
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Permalink Reply by Charles Jonson on -
I agree with Laz. Animals like Grey Hounds will die fast because of their thin skin and the House Trained animals will starve to death waiting for their owners to feed them. But the part-wolf dogs will probably thrive.
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Permalink Reply by Ttens 25 on -
Good points. Added this after seeing one of those shite "When Good Pets Go Bad" programmes where a lad in California had been attacked by a pack of feral dogs, all abandoned pets(one was a fucking poodle). They chewed his arm off.
A few years ago I cut myself chopping onions, and bled on the carpet. My dog (a collie) licked all the blood up. I tried to stop her, and it was the only time she has ever bitten me(turned out good though, didn't need any stain remover). To this day, every now and then she licks at that same bit of carpet. Very disturbing.
Dogs scavenge all the time(ever dropped a bit of food on the floor when your dogs around?) and with lots of zombies around with guts hanging out, if one dog tried a nibble and liked it....?
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Permalink Reply by Suigeneris on -
I don't know about you but, I plan on keeping a pack arround me. Alarm system, banzai attack, eats what I eat and, keeps me warm at night? As long as it can sit and git on command, its in my pack.
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Permalink Reply by David Sanger on -
I'm going to dine on yorkies! mmmm yorkie ka bobs mmmm
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Permalink Reply by Revolver on -
Make them good survival companion or
eat them cause they're tasty ot
just shoot them before they causing you more trouble
in the future ...
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Permalink Reply by Liz Kay on -
I think they would go feral pretty quickly, at least the ones who survive. When left to run loose dogs do tend to form packs. Hungry dogs in a pack are much more likely to attack a person than a lone dog would be. Keep in mind that dogs are also very good at reading human body language, and they are likely to be unafraid of humans (since they used to be pets) or of weapons.
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Permalink Reply by Commander (Classified) on -
Well, if a dog was to bite a zombie and come in contact with the blood, would it turn into a zombie-dog?
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Permalink Reply by Liz Kay on
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It depends on what mechanism is involved. If it's a virus, it depends on whether it is zoonotic and whether it interacts with the blood of other species the same as with human blood (whether it has the same effect on dogs as it does on humans.) Contact with the blood might just result in toxicity and kill the animal rather than infecting it, or the infection itself may be fatal rather than re-animating them.
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Permalink Reply by Milo Foxie on -
I didn't rad the full thing there PapaToad... but the start made me think...
We're more likely to have Zombie Monkeys on our hands than Zombie Dogs, because we share a gene with Monkeys and not dogs.
(it's 4am cut me some slack)
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Permalink Reply by Ttens 25 on
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I don't think we would get zombie dogs, but zombie monkeys...Holy shitballs, that's just crazy enough to be true.
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