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* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Pet Sematary]]'', there's a special burial ground and anyone buried there will come back to life. Burying animals there is fairly common, and the zombie animals are mostly harmless (the main character has a zombie cat, and his neighbor used to have a zombie dog), but human zombies aren't nearly as nice.

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', [[Blind Seer|Tiresias]] ''and'' Circe told Odysseus that his men must not eat the sun god's cattle while on his island. Naturally, they do, since the island didn't have much more than herbs. However, the meat doesn't stay dead, and starts to moo on the spit as it roasts. And [[It Got Worse|once they]] [[Giant Wall of Watery Doom|leave the]] [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|island]]... though the intention was not a [[Zombie Apocalypse]], but an omen that the sun god was pissed off and about to get revenge.

* One of the [[Magic a Is Magic A|rules]] of necromancy in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is that it's often not worth it to raise a zombie animal, as animals leave shallower "psychic footprints" than humans and thus don't have as much power when raised (consider that a human zombie, in deference to tradition, is typically as strong as the Terminator). Harry, however, being [[Crazy Awesome]], latches onto two of the other rules -- first, that is is ''technically'' not illegal to raise animals, and second, that the older something is, the deeper its "footprint" becomes -- and applies these rules to {{spoiler|[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Sue, the 65 million year old T. rex skeleton at the Natural History Museum]]}}. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesomeness ensued.]]

* One of the [[Magic A Is Magic A|rules]] of necromancy in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is that it's often not worth it to raise a zombie animal, as animals leave shallower "psychic footprints" than humans and thus don't have as much power when raised (consider that a human zombie, in deference to tradition, is typically as strong as the Terminator). Harry, however, being [[Crazy Awesome]], latches onto two of the other rules -- first, that is is ''technically'' not illegal to raise animals, and second, that the older something is, the deeper its "footprint" becomes -- and applies these rules to {{spoiler|[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Sue, the 65 million year old T. rex skeleton at the Natural History Museum]]}}. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesomeness ensued.]]

* The Kellis-Amberlee virus of the [[Newsflesh]] Trilogy affects any mammal over forty pounds. This includes large dogs, horses, cows...and ''whales''.

* Not actually seen, but in ''On Stranger Tides'', when a sorcerer animates a sunken British ship's crew to serve him, and accidentally raises up the Spanish vessel that sank it as well, one character remarks that there are probably fishes swimming about beneath them that'd been skeletons an hour ago.