As a point of interest, animals tend to shy away from the living dead, even well trained animals. So attack dogs are out of the question.

Also, Fire = bad idea. It would take around 4 to 7 minutes for a moderately fresh zombie to be burned to the point where it can't walk. Until then it is a walking bonfire. Fire is not a zombie deterrent, they don't feel pain.

Acid, while it seems like a good idea, is ineffective to eat through flesh in the short term. It takes acids that museums use to clean the flesh off of specimen bones several hours to work, and that is the strongest acid you can get without the feds knocking on your door.

Overall, the best action for a short term zombie infestation is a well stocked house boat, since zombies lack the coordination to swim, they tend to sink to the bottom.

The ones that do float, you can pick off with a rifle.

Yeah, but there's no fun in that.

Until you bring chicks along.

As a die hard reader of the Zombie Survival Guide, I am seriously alarmed at your lack of seriousness in matters of such importance.

The zombie menace is real.

Don't let that governmental hogwash that they have been feeding you blind you from the truth!

Prepare!

No you fool, I am serious!

The usual flaw of plans is the way of getting the material, and then using it. The problem is, we do not have house-boats and if the horde is strong & big enough we'll not make it to one. Unless we take swift action at the first sign of zombies, we're pretty much done for. We live near big cities, and that means low chances of survival and supplies. N one is going to stack up on supplies, and the chances are they won't needing them as their own father bites thier throats out.

OK, so Mike has convinced me on the benefits of dorm living in the instance of zombie infestation.

Mimes. We need an army of mimes to distract the undead menace. They're expendable. Let's face it: They're like clowns from a film noir movie. That makes them, like, twice as evil. And silent. They can sneak up on the undead. It would work. Trust me, mimes are the scariest shit on this planet, aside from Britany Spears and Paris Hilton. Hey! Let's bring THEM along and use them as "Disposable Blonde That Gets Eaten First" so I can live to see another day.

Mmm, mimes...

Anyway, I live 20 mins from a 2 lakes full of house boats, and I have enough emergency supplies in my house for 6 people to live on for 10 days, without rationing.

My town has 2 highways and 2 Interstates running through it, every possible place to run to has multiple ways to get there in case of a blocked way.

My car has a CB radio, tools to repair an engine and remove tree limbs or other obstacles, and room for 6 and room for said supplies.

I have a 22. Rifle and 100 extra rounds on a rack in the hall. I have a cell phone and 3 extra batteries, including those chargers that run on AA batteries.

You may think that I have no life, but most of this plan is for your general disasters. Lots of bad storms and tornados where I live.

I really have looked into this though. I will not be... zombie food.

There's one problem with using Paris and Britany as the DBTGEF.

You see, Zombies don't sing well, they don't dance well, they don't think well, and they don't look too healthy.

Neither do they. They also have an amazing effect to turn people mindless.

Obviously, Britany Spears and Paris Hilton must be the leaders of the zombie hordes. You know, their "fans".

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Normally when I peruse the forums I'll take the time to read some threads that interest me. This is the kind of thing that I can't get enough of... zombie survival. This particular thread is what finally pushed me over the edge into registering, if only to share the plan I have incase of zombie outbreak. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, and it always comes to one conclusion. Wal-Mart. Why? Simple. First day that the zombie outbreak begins - you round up your group and head to walmart and split into two teams after a sweep of the area to make sure that there are no zombies.

Team one barricades the entrances (easy to do considering how much crap there is in walmart) while team two uses the time left that there is power to dehydrate and salt as much meat as possible. After team one finishes with the barricade they perform another sweep of walmart to ensure that no zombies have made it into the perimeter while they were creating the barricades (ahh, walmart, baseball bats, guns, ammo...).

Place empty garbage cans on the roof to get water to bathe with (all the bottled water in walmart should be rationed to last as long as possible) there will be plenty of food (mmm, canned goods and junk food) and entertainment, especially battery operated hand held games and such. Not to mention the other fine assortment of goodies you could find. It'd only be like what? a couple months before they decomposed beyond being dangerous?

This is all assuming that you have a super-walmart near by. Oh, and that zombies are attacking too I suppose, but feel free to practice, it could be more important than fire drills one day.
But this is only my 2 cents.... that's come from hours and hours of planning....*cough*
I'm not crazy.

There's a couple holes there. Your big problem with WallyWorld is going to be other people. If you live in a pretty populated area, chances are your local Wal-Mart will be pretty packed with people grabbing supplies. Hell, the stores are usually packed when the weather forecast calls for snow, let alone any kind of real disaster (You might be better off with, say, a Target - they usually have decent supplies of food/other necessities, but it wouldn't be the first place your average panicky housewife is going to think to run). And of course, any location packed with people is liable to very quickly become a location packed with zombies.

If you can find a location that isn't either swarming with people or turned into a zombie nest, then you're in pretty good shape. You stil have to watch out for one thing - lots of Wal-Marts / grocery stores have those long, wide windows across the front. Don't even waste your time trying to barricade a location like that, sooner or later the zombies will get through the windows. If it's a closed-face location then you should be able to seal it off pretty well, although as with any ground-level location you're still dealing with some level of inherent risk. So no matter how tightly you think you've sealed things up, you'll still want to be on your guard.

The benefit I have is not living in a highly populated area, but I'll admit it does get crowded. We're also lucky enough to not have those big long windows - the only windows in our walmart are in the very front, and there is still a set of doors after them.
Also not fortunate enough to have a target - the next best thing we have is probably... a dunken donuts... or the local super market. I guess I should have given a bit of a background. Still - you do bring up a good point about the people... never really any natural disasters (note, this excludes snow because it snows all the freaking time) so I'm not sure how people would react to zombie stuff on the news.

The main idea here is having food, supplies, and enough entertainment so that you don't kill the people you're holed up with. Any suggestions for crowd control? I'm thinking either pulling a fire alarm or shouting "The zombies are here, everyone get out while you can!"