DIY Zombie Dog

'If you get lazy the dog will not look zombie enough.'



Predating the recent news announcement that scientists have succeeding in creating so-called zombie dogs, Staffan Raupach over at Planned Movement Production, a company that creates and markets tabletop games, posted these instructions for "Creating zombie dogs" (subtitled, "Tips on how to zombify your own zombie dogs"). For gaming purposes, of course.

Excerpt:

I then used a knife to cut out the parts that I wanted to show open wounds and sores. What I found here was that you need more damage than you really would think. If you get lazy the dog will not look zombie enough. This is because of a number of things, if you look at a human zombie and analyse what makes him a zombie, you quickly see his bad posture, limb [limp?] arms, open mouth, torn clothes, grayish skin and open wounds. And if we translate this to these dogs, since this is a simple conversion job, the posture is too hard to alter. The mouth although open looks decidedly snarling, I wouldn’t take a dog wearing any clothes as a serious threat (zombie or not zombie). There is no skin showing on a dog since it’s all hairy. So what you are left with are open wounds.

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