Talk:Vicious dog

"Vicious Dog corpses contain Dog meat, and, much as it is today, it's hardly worth eating."
 * I wonder if that statement was written by someone who has actually eaten dog meat?
 * I was just attempting to be witty about its horrible radiation to health ratio. As far as actually eating dog goes, I'm sure its like most any other animal, no matter how tough, stringy, or bitter tasting it is, if you blend it into a sausage, or cook it with the right spices, who'd even know? --AshRandom 17:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Dog meat is like any other meat affected by the health of the animal. As the hostile dogs in Fallout seem to be mangy and malnourished they would likely taste terrible. Adrenaline is believed though to enhance the quality of dogmeat, thus in certain countries they are hooded and caused to slowly bleed to death from the wrists just prior to butchering. I haven't had the good fortune to partake in this delicacy. The vicious dogs of Fallout are seemingly quite full of adrenaline, perhaps enhancing their meat. --TheSwankyNinja 17:16, 20 December 2008 (UTC)



Picture with copyright
I removed this image since it seems to be art of unknown copyright, and not anything from the game. It actually seem to be a copyrighted poster, photographed by William Swartz and I don't think we can use it. You could ask permission if you want, I guess? But I don't believe we can use it right now. Mirar (Talk) 17:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That's fine, the new in-game picture is great, I was just using it as filler when I first created the page. At the time I still hadn't figured out how to get screen caps off the xbox. I still haven't. The picture of the dead dog was uploaded from my cellphone.  --AshRandom 18:27, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Okies. =^.^= I actually took the picture by spawning a dog a far way off, using the console (mark something - in this case a poor brahmin, then, and looking at it through the command). Screenshot, fixing levels in photoshop. Not that easy on the PC either. :) Mirar (Talk) 19:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Dog Meat Page
Speaking of dog meat and pictures, the dog meat page still needs a pic, lets just say the one I have up is titled "dog face meat". Anyway, I tried to fix the page up a bit, but, its hard to think of anything much to say about dog meat. There's so little filler. --AshRandom 19:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Breed and Origin?
In the current page there is a mention of the vicious dogs from FO3 being descendant from pitbulls...However this is very unlikely as the dogs pictured in-game have clipped ears, a condition many domesticated pits are imparted by their owners for aesthetic purposes. A "wild" pitbull would have longer, floppier ears. However, their in game appearance is VERY VERY similar to a pitbull with its ears clipped...Perhaps these animals are not descendents of pre-war dogs at all, perhaps they have undergone a similar process to "ghoul-ification" and, in fact, ARE the formally domesticated pets from the time of the great war and have had their life-span extended indefinitely, very similarly to the pre-war ghouls that populate the wasteland. This seems to go against the statement that "dogs have been relatively unaffected by the Wasteland's radiation". Evidence supporting this theory comes from their decomposed appearance that is in stark contrast to other, domesticated,"healthy" dogs found in the wasteland accompanying scavengers and traders. Dogs like Dogmeat could be the equivalent of "normal", unmutated, humans, while the vicious "wild" dogs could be on par with the ghouls. There are also NO vicious dogs found WITH floppy-ears, this indicates that they are in fact sterile and unable to reproduce as any new puppies would be born possessing floppy-ears. This sterility is also supporting evidence of "ghoul-ification" as this trait is shared by affected humans (ghouls) as well. --DashMan54 15:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ...or simply the devs have only seen pitbulls with their ears clipped and didn't know that in their natual states they look different? Ausir(talk) 15:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Ha ha, or that. But developer error can be used to explain MANY of the phenomenon we witness with Fallout, I think it's more fun to read into their unintentional follies, especially when they lend themselves so well to explanations like ghoul-ification.  --DashMan54 18:02, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Doggy Scouts?
A while back I went down a slope in the capital wasteland into what was an incredibly shallow valley, most players will have seen it, and thanks to my animal friend perk was able to stand next to three dogs sitting together and a fourth sitting a bit further back. I was so close to leveling up and I needed to for a quest so I 'put them down' when a fifth dog came from the side. I think if I hadn't killed the pooches they would all start moving off together as a pack. ThePog

Hmm that has also happened to me maybe bethesda wanted to make the dogs behave like a realistic pack? it could be a cool glitch?