I'd like to think not. On The Walking Dead, it appears they do but I recall another movie where our heros strapped food to a dog and sent it across a street full of undead to supply a friend who was cut off from the main group and the dog was not attacked. Dogs could probably be trained as early warning animals, smelling/hearing approaching Zs, as messengers, etc. I'd kinda like that. Horses/mules/cattle would be handy. And the Zs wouldn't have et up all the wild game.

Seems to me part of the horror of zombies us us being toppled from the top of the food chain. I never see zombie raccons or schnauzers so the zombie virus does not seem to "turn" common animals other than humans. Zombies have no nutritional requirements so killing us and spreading the virus would seem to be their only motivations. I don't see other animals even being on their radar.  Thoughts?

I think most have them eating animals as much as humans.  Truth of the matter is, humans are a much lazier, dumber and easier target then most animals.  

You need some real world problems to think about OP.

Knock a chick up or have a questionable hook up on tinder.  Them zombie questions will be put in perspective.

 
Well he did post in the Zombie Central forum so.......

Isn't this a tecnical forum?  

in half of the lore/books movies they eat everything alive and the other half just seems to be humans. Many of the books talk about using dogs to sniff them out.

The original zombie movie from George Romero that started it all, Night of the Living Dead, showed zombies eating all forms of live flesh. A female zombie is shown eating a bug in one scene. The carry over from Romero's films to The Walking Dead series makes sense that zombies eat all forms of living flesh.

You're advising the OP to get himself into real trouble as opposed to conducting a hobby that hurts no one? Who's the one here that "needs" perspective? Or maybe therapy. Why are you even trolling here?

I saw an episode of Z Nation where people would not eat meat anymore. Presumably because animals were contaminated by the virus. That would suck but we know Z Nation is parody, not real.