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The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye (S1E1)
Well, let’s just start off by saying that as hoped and expected, the show started off with a bang. Now if you have not yet watched The Walking Dead, we highly recommend you stop reading here, as spoilers will occur.
Starting off the show with Rick shooting a little girl taking out the brain with what can only be considered a perfect kill shot was genius. Not only is the audience now glued to their seats in anticipation, you’ve broken one of the many zombie-film “no nos” and made a child the initial focus of the outbreak. Not to say it hasn’t happened before, it’s just rare is all.
After that we have the event in which Rick is shot by a couple outlaws running from the cops. Rick is in the hospital and wakes up thinking is friend and fellow officer Shane, is in th room. Only to find the flowers Shane left are wilted and dried out. Obviously having been there for weeks untended.
OK, that’s enough scene for scene action. Needless to say the hospital is trashed, complete with a half-eaten corpse in the middle of one intelligently avoided hallway and a doorway on which is written “Don’t Open Dead Inside.”
We’ll give Rick credit here. Unlike many would-be heroes of zombie lore, he avoids making obvious mistakes at the outset, and makes his way out of the hospital and into the corpse grounds. We’d also like to give the production team credit for the brilliant job they did with the visual effects of both the zombies and the corpses. Both are completely convincing.
After dealing with Bike Girl (above image) and making his way home to find his wife Lori and son Carl gone, Rick is then faced with the choice of going in search of his family, or going in search of humanity period. That’s when he gets brained by a shovel.
Now comes the obligatory explanation time complete with a man’s fallen wife and their child’s inability to deal with that. Rick kills his first zombie and then learns that Atlanta is supposed to be the land of the living. With help from the military and the CDC, Atlanta is the bastion against the spread of zombification.
After a hot shower and loading up with ammo as well as another zombie notch in Ricks belt. Rick heads for Atlanta leaving his saviors behind where they hunker down again and take out a few zombies including another attempt a Mom. Rick encounters Bike Girl again and takes care of her as well.
On his travel to Atlanta, Rick broadcasts on the CB trying to raise anyone out there. Of course someone is out there and one of the party is Rick’s old friend Shane. Of course there are more survivors and we can see some expected personal conflict coming between Shane and Rick in the future.
Rick then gets himself a horse, since inevitably his car runs out of gas and continues onto ATL uncomfortably. Making it into the city proves easy, but we can already see that it isn’t the expected center of hope we thought it would be.
Well it doesn’t look as if the army and the CDC were able to do what everyone had hoped and not Atlanta is overrun by the undead as well. Suddenly there’s the sound of a helicopter overhead, and finally we have the tank scene.
If you haven’t scene it, we’re not going to explain it here. So go watch the show. It’s better than we’d hoped, and we had pretty high standards for this one. Well done AMC.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion on whether or not zombies will attack animals, and if they do, will those animals become infected, simply die, or go on with their lives. As this video shows, some types of zombies will indeed attack animals that enter their vicinity, but this is not always the case.
Some types of zombies will indeed attack an animal, though those same types will typically attack any warm or moving object. Some types of zombies will only attack certain types of animals (e.g., mammals but not lizards,) and some types of zombies will only go after a human being.
To make this a little more straightforward we have come up with the following lists to help you in knowing whether or not your family pets are safe.
Zombies that Will Attack Animals:
Zombies that Will Only Attack Humans
- Chemical Zombies
- Nano-Zombies
- Techno-Zombies
- Other Miscellaneous
To understand how to identify each type of zombie, please click on the links above and review the various articles. This will advise you on how to identify your zombies, and find out whether they are a threat to only you, or if you need to protect your pets as well.
One important item to note when reviewing the articles, not all zombie types can be spread to your animals. So while you may want to protect Spot from being eaten, if he does get bitten, you do not necessarily need to put him out of his misery.
If your pet/horse/cow/sheep does receive a bite, and you are unsure what type of zombie you have encountered, the safest option is to put the animal down. We understand that this is difficult (nigh on impossible for some.) We are pet owners and animal lovers ourselves, and to have to put down your own animal is one of the most difficult decisions one can make, even if it isn’t due to an infected bite from a zombie.
That said, the infected pet is no longer the loving, caring creature you have shared time and adventures with. If not now, then soon it will turn into a vicious, ravenous creature with only your death in mind.
If you cannot bring yourself to put your pet down, and you have not been able to identify the type of zombie bite it has received, you have two options.
- Have an acquaintance do the dirty work for you. Do NOT let a friend do it. It will ruin your relationship completely. You will always question your decision, and if a friend has to put down your beloved pet, you will forever look at them with that question, and that anger. Make sure the person you ask is someone you either don’t like, or don’t have a close connection with. It will change your relationship with them as well, but it’s less likely to ruin a friendship. Ironically, it may even lead to a stronger connection with that person.
- Lock the possibly infected animal up and monitor it over the course of several days. An infection that can spread to an animal will show its signs within 72-120 hours (three to five days.) If your pet is still its same old self after that time, you can consider yourself reasonably safe and release them.
NOTE: We cannot stress enough how dangerous, and frankly stupid this option is. Primarily, keeping a potentially infected animal locked up for up to a week can cause issues of its own. What if you have to move because of a coming horde? What about the animals natural biological processes and the necessary cleanup? Where can you keep a horse locked up that where you can guarantee it won’t escape, break free, etc.?
Additionally, there is no guarantee that even after five, ten, or even 100 days that your pet is guaranteed infection free. All creatures have different resistances to infections. Your chihuahua may be naturally immune to the zombie bacteria, but can still pass it on if he bites you. The only way to guarantee your safety from your pet is to put it down, no matter how difficult the decision.
To be blunt, it’s you or them. In a war against the zombification of all humanity your pet may become collateral damage. It’s sad, it’s difficult to come to terms with, it’s your only guarantee for safety.
In the war against zombies, animals are often caught in the middle. Many people are forced to abandon their pets when they go on the run. Even more are turned and have no recollection of their family and friends, much less their pets.
While some animals are trained to help humanity against the zombie threats, many are left to fend for themselves and have been known to become a danger in themselves. Feral packs of both dogs, cats, and even escaped zoo animals have been known to roam urban wastelands after an outbreak.
For these reasons, we recommend that if you are a pet owner and you realize that an outbreak is occurring, please do something about your pets. They will not likely be able to make it through the outbreak alive, and may even become a danger to you and your survival group. We know it’s difficult, but it may become necessary.
Video Credit: VideoSlave
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