There was an article on Foxnews.com today about Zombie dogs. Yes, zombie dogs. You can read the article here or another one here.
Some key points from the article…
“In a series of nightmarish experiments straight out of a horror flick, scientists at a leading university have killed dozens of dogs — then brought them back to life…
…dogs of all breeds and sizes are put under, their veins drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution which drops their body temperature from a normal 101 degrees to near freezing…
…The corpses are then brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies, giving them pure oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts…
…For a long time, the test subjects couldn't be brought back to life after more than two hours. But recently, the researchers added glucose and more oxygen to the blood and have pushed the maximum time the dogs can be dead to three hours…
…The lucky ones turn out to be perfectly normal with no brain damage — although other dogs are stricken with serious physical or behavioral problems.”
Now, when I first saw this I thought it was a joke. The article is…creepy. I thought of Pet Cemetery. And since I love zombie movies, well, I also thought about how this could be woven into a good zombie flick. Cinnamon or Shadow or Max or Pumbaa or Sparky or Zeus or Carl or Sam slowly walking around, drool falling from their mouths…they drool already so that wouldn’t work, a blank look in their eyes, seeking brains. Cat brains maybe.
Couple of additional thoughts.
- www.zombiedog.com and www.zombiedogs.com are taken. Too bad.
- According to the article, they want to start testing on humans. What kind of sick, twisted death wish lunatic would allow someone to put them to sleep (assuming they are put to sleep first), have their blood drained and filled with very cold salt water, then hopefully brought back to life. All without knowing if there would be any psychological or physical damage. If they offered up money or free food, I bet a lot of people.
- I still think this thing is creepy, but kind of interesting.
- Apparently Zombie Dogs is a video game. Good call on the game, wish I thought of it.
- Why not test on cats, or monkeys. Why do dogs always get the crap end in the research field.
- If the zombie dogs starting attacking each other, I guess it’d be a dog-eat-dog world. BAM! Thank you! You’re a great crowd. I’m here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitress.
- When the Berlin Wall came down there were hundreds of German Sheppards that were used to guard the space between the two walls. The government had a program where they tried to socialize the dogs and have families adopt them. I guess it didn’t work out too well, after all the dogs were bread to attack people. Wonder if they will have a program for these dogs. Not sure if I’d let my kids play with the undead. But that’s just me.
- The more I think about it, the more creepy it is. Flatliners dealt with this. I kind of sucked. Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Billy Baldwin, 1990. Good special effects but pretty week story line. “Today is a good day to die.” Actually, it was pretty good now that I think about it.
- If I told this to a complete stranger, or made up something even crazier like the dogs come back 2 inches taller or all dogs turn the same color, I wonder it they would believe me.
- I am having a hard time with the solution they put inject to preserve the dogs while they are dead. Ice cold salt solution? That’s it? That is what preserves the dead?? Salt water?? What about purple-ish synthetic mixture that is created in futuristic labs by droids? What about a liquid discovered at the bottom of a cave in some remote east African jungle? Or obtained from a pool on Mars. Not cold salt water. It has to be more interesting than that. The least they can do is rename it to something like ‘Life Vortex’. Help me out here.
- Do dogs dream in black and white?
- If the dogs are out for 2 hour, it must be 14 in people hours?
- Is 2 or 3 hours really that impressive? Is it? What about days, or weeks, or years. Walt Disney and Ted Williams must be turning over in their cryogenic tanks right now.
I am going to be watching this story, I think it has legs.