Why not more dogs ?
I just the movie Alpha about the beginning of the man-dog
relationship last week. It's a pretty bad movie for the most
part except for being beautifully photographed. But it did
point out that man and dogs really make a good team.
What I think is interesting is how important a dog could be in this
Zombie Apocalypse world. Think about it. A couple problems
pop to mind right away, like barking and feeding, but I think it
makes a lot of sense.
The "walkers" don't go after dogs, but even if they do the dogs are
much faster than the walkers and smarter too. I bet a dog could
run right through a herd of walkers and never get stopped because
they just move too fast for walkers to react to.
The problem of training them to be quiet - there are hunting dogs
like pointers that are taught, or bred, not to bark at critical times.
Another problem would be if they bit the walkers and then had contact
with people, would they infect and kill the people? But past that,
dogs would help the people take back the world much quicker.
The other problem is what do you feed them, though the stores
might still be full of dog food, or the dog food factories.
It has been something like 10 years since the apocalypse, the forests
would have grown back really dense and full of game. That part of the
country has no big predators so there would be all kinds of game.
Probably enough to support a lot of dogs.
I think Daryl is on to something ... but then again Daryl is smarter
than the TWD writers probably!? ;-)