first I have seen...wonder if the walkers will bite and eat them??

 

Season 1 had dogs.

 

I missed it...shit.

 

Are you kidding? Horses. Pigs. Boar. Deer. Dogs in season 1. Chickens on the farm. The rats. People. People are animals.

 

There was a dog in woodbury too. WHERE THE F*CK IS THE DOG IN THE PRISON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!?

 

Owls....crows....fish....a snake.....we could go on all night...

 

No, we've seen a ton of animals.

 

Ants.....grasshoppers....flies....

 

WHY were they going up to the walker though? I thought animals would have enough sense to avoid them.

 

When animals need food, I think an incapacitated walker would be considered a great meal. Walkers would just seem like food for them once they are on the ground and can't get up. Cute little pet shih-Tzus would eat their master who died of a heart attack after a couple days if they couldn't reach their Alpo.

 

I'm surprised that dog hasn't been on the menu at the prison yet. Daryl is quite capable of dealing with Lassie.

 

That actually makes more sense than you would think. Dogs would revert back to their pack hunting ways if humans were out of the picture. They would scavenge and do whatever it took to survive.

Those dogs wouldn't see that walker as a threat. Especially since it was pretty immobile. Those dogs would take that opportunity to eat the carrion (the dead flesh) of the walker. As far as those dogs are concerned, he's just another dead and decaying source of food.

 

Very true. And I found it ironic that they showed those dogs tonight because the other day I was 'talking dead' with my sister, and said I wished they would show at least a few feral dogs running around every so often. Given the numbers within the pet dog population within the United States, I would think there'd be many roaming packs of dogs, and they would be a potential threat to any surviving humans if they crossed paths. Glad to see they showed, well, a couple of dogs anyway.

 

I agree completely that an animal would eat a dead human, I just don't think an animal would go after a dead Walker. I'd think they'd sense there is something "wrong" about them and would stay away.

 

Absolutely feral dogs would be a threat to humans. But would they go after a walker? I doubt it.

 

I don't think so. Walkers are scary to us because we can think about them rationally. A dog might steer clear of a mobile walker by instinct, the same way it would steer clear of a wild pig or an eagle or a social conservative....because dog's have good instinct, but a dog, if hungry enough, would approach a dying tiger that could barely move.

 

Rick's horse, Michonne's horse, the pigs, the boar...

 

Dogs eat garbage, they eat rotting meat. It's been a year and a half since the ZA and those pets lucky enough to have gotten out of the houses before becoming walker bait themselves are hungry. They would eat basically anything, if they came across it.