Enslaving the less intelligent.

Many topics are still left untouched, but I wanted to put something positive here. Zombies don't live forever, eventually their whole body will decompose and you won't have to worry about armies of them anymore, but you will have to worry about rebuilding society. Which would be a cool thing to do, shape the new world in your image.So many things wrong could be corrected with a reboot like that. It's what we need, I think.

Anyway, you'll never get there if you don't follow my instructions, so back to training. We're going to talk about animals. It'd be nice to have a dog or something around to keep you company and let you know when there are zeds out of range of your nose, but depending on whether or not the virus can be transfered to all species or not you may want to be careful. It would be a very, very bad thing if your best friend decided to go spoiled, and rip your arm off.
You'd want to take precautions that let you interact with your dog, but keeps enough distance so that if he gets infected he won't be able to harm you. Something like a leash.... Or other things that we use on vicious dogs who aren't zombies.

Something that would be cool to do, would be to get one of the elephants from the Zoo and train them to be your pet. Zombies wouldn't stand a chance. But if the elephant gets zombified that could put you into a sticky situation.Maybe it'd be a good idea to just avoid all life.

I guess that solves it. No pets! If they get zombified you have to deal with animal zombies. Regular animals are scary enough when they attack, but zombie animals attacking........ That's no good.

Time to Come Out and Play

After the initial chaos and panic it'd be a good idea to pick out a nice little hideout. You want it to be hard for the zeds to get to, but also easy enough so that you can haul supplies to. Also, you want the population of the surrounding area to be as low as possible. There are a few buildings that come to mind, those two buildings in the valley next to the H3. You can see them if you're heading toward Aiea. I can't find a picture, when I google anything with "H3" in it all I get are Hummers, but you get the point I hope. Secluded, but not so much so that it's very hard to get to.

Now you'll probably want a vehicle to help you haul your stuff around. It's really up to what you want here. You can have A) Smaller gas efficient car with less room for supplies or B) Larger vehicle with less gas efficiency but more room for supplies. Honestly A is probably the better option, the less room for supplies will help you from collecting too much useless junk.

Now, I'm no gun expert, but for protection I'm just going to go ahead and say I think pistols are the way to go. They're light, use small rounds, and can make you look straight gangsta. Fully automatic weapons are completely out of the question, their ammo consumption, and their ability to let a person spray and pray(Hold down the trigger and hope the monsters go away) just make them too complicated, and inefficient. Rifles like hunting rifles could come in handy for HQ defense, taking out zeds before they can even read your Welcome mat is definitely a plus.

OH SNAP OUT O' AMMO
Having some sort of brain smasher object, or head chopper offer would be a good thing to have. I'd say a nice aluminum bat would do the trick if going against only a few, but a group of ten or so would require something much more quick. So this is where the head chopper offer comes in, many people think a katana would be a gift from god in this situation, but without proper training you might as well be fighting zeds with toenail clippers. A firemen's axe would be a very nice brain impaler thingy, one hit with it and a zeds head should split open like a banana.