Today I interviewed Darnell Hackworth a shy, soft-spoken man with an incredible story. He and his wife run a retirement home for the dogs who fought in World War Z. He opened with this quote, "They never got enough credit." The more I listened, the more I understood. K-9's where first used to sniff the infected, there was something about the zombies that made the dog's go crazy. Hackworth told me it was a great program but it all came down to the training. As pups, the dogs would sit across from G's and immediately go crazy, the instinct to kill. The main mission of the of any K team was scouting called LRP, Long Range Patrol. To sweep and pick out the zombies and it proved to be very helpful. I was confused when he talked about the K's attacking G's. Wouldn't the dogs become infected? Mr. Hackworth told me how some dogs would just tackle the legs knocking them down. According to him, that was as much time as he needed to put a lobo through it's brain.
It is no doubt that dogs played a crucial role in the history of the zombie war and saved millions of lives.
3 comments:
I completely agree with everything, how crazy and ferocious the dogs were towards the G’s. The K’s did not bite the G’s so they didn’t get infected. Hackworth said that he saw a lot of dead dogs in the beginning of the war because of the dogs biting infected flesh. The handlers soon learned this and taught the dogs to just knock them over so the handlers had time to go over and kill the G’s. The dogs definitely played a very important role in the war to help the people take out the G’s.
I agree with the idea that the dogs would be infected by the zombies when they attacked. Without the dogs the war could have been a lot worse.
I agree with what you said about the K-9s attacking the zombies. It didn't make sense, and that's why the dogs were then trained to take out the lower sections of the zombies with their body weight.
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