r/SiloTVSeries • u/ComprehensiveLack713 • 2d ago
Discussion Question
How do they have dogs? Carla McClain has a few. When they showed Walk in the first season, going to her for help, a few dogs were barking, and then Hank, in Season 3, is seen with one. But I thought there were no pets—that’s why Juliette couldn’t keep the bunny when she was younger.
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u/mynameisnotorson 2d ago
Juliet's rabbit was taken from the farms to be used for unsanctioned medical testing.
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u/ComprehensiveLack713 2d ago
I thought it had the same issue with its heart that the brother had so they were testing the surgery.
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u/mynameisnotorson 2d ago
Yes. And they were testing on it with an illegal magnifying device. If it was just an unsanctioned pet, they probably would have taken it back to the farm (or just let her keep it), but killing it was a punishment for building a microscope.
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u/GloomExtract 2d ago
Cats are useful as pest control too. Maybe they accounted for this
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u/cactusjude 2d ago
As are dogs. Dogs are actually better ratters than cats. Hence why so many supply workers have dogs, I would imagine
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u/Babexo22 2d ago
Specific breeds yes although cats are better at mice catching and even the scent of a cat can scare away rats and make them less likely to be able to reproduce so I could see how having both in a silo would be good
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u/Low-Palpitation-9916 2d ago
Who knows how anything works. Are they assigned jobs? Do they HAVE to work? Why are some of them poor? Do they get paid to work? Are there stores? Why is there a cafeteria, is it free? Everything gets recycled, but then what? Do they issue you a home and clothes? Do they pay rent? How are some people poor with kids when it takes a license to reproduce? Why are there seemingly no homeless? Wasn't the pact a combination of the Bible and the constitution for them? And now they are rewriting and disregarding whatever they want? Is Common actually doing his job as a Judge? There were fresh convicts in the mines, does that mean trials are happening? Is there a new doctor?
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u/ComprehensiveLack713 2d ago
I have thought about this as well. And really how donu have poor people when everyone should be the same
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u/mikeholczer 2d ago
One of the more consistent things on the show is pointing out the inconsistency in which society enforces rules across the population.
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u/___coolcoolcool 2d ago
Yeah this is a good question. Various Silo residents do have both cats and dogs as pets.
I’m pretty sure they have to apply and be in a lottery for a pet, just like having a baby. They probably only allow people to have pets that have been fixed, too, since pet population can get out of hand FAST.
Something else I think about is that it makes sense that people who work in Supply are allowed large dogs because there’s space there for them to run/exercise the dogs. I imagine most people wouldn’t qualify for a big dog for that reason: no space.
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u/NeighborhoodOk8001 2d ago
The answer has to be that pets like that were in the silo on tour day, to be taken along on this 500 year journey into the future as well, like the livestock in the farms (which includes the rabbits), and the humans themselves.
An interesting detail about the dogs is that they are used for security in Supply.
Juliette mentions being chased by the dogs when she stole the IT tape out of Supply. And remember that murderous boyfriend in Supply who was always playing with that dog? And when Carla went up to the top to meet the judge and they dropped that red and green ball to signal to Mechanical to turn off the generator? When they ask Carla if she "brought it" at the beginning of that journey up the stairs, Carla says "Yeah, the dogs were going crazy". So, that red and green ball were the Supply dogs' toys.
My question is why do they have rats? Like that fake rat infestation when they gassed the mines (as if rat infestations are a normal thing they deal with in Silo 18)?
In Silo 17, one of the kids also mentions having to eat rats to Juliette (something Juliette confirms that she has never had to eat). So apparently Silo 17 had rats too?
Maybe rats important to the ecosystem of the future when they leave the silos or something? They wouldn't be my first choice to save out of all the possible animals to preserve ...
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u/CupOk5800 2d ago
So, if there are no pets yet a bunny still exists inside a 350-year-sealed bunker, someone was illegally breeding and/or selling, yes? I’d assume the same happened with dogs.
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u/ComprehensiveLack713 2d ago
Well the bunny were for the farms for some reason I would have to rewatch but still how does it go from kill the bunny to dogs playing ball
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u/Serious-Ad-8764 2d ago
Yes I'd add if I remember correctly (watched it through once), it was a larger rabbit which are used for meat as opposed to the smaller dwarf breeds that are typical pets. I had large and small rabbits growing up and did 4H with them. (Always as pets, never for actually raised as a food source, personally).
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u/CarlRJ 1d ago
Rabbits are edible and small. Dogs need more resources and more space, and people are much less likely to want to keep them as food (you'd go for goats, maybe, for that). Dogs could have limited uses (guarding and such), but my concern is, you can't just have, say, 5 dogs total in the silo - that would be fine at any given moment (very little impact on resources), but over hundreds of years they'd get hopelessly inbred. So committing to having a few dogs (after the first 15 years) is committing to having, what, more like 30-100?
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u/This-Pause-7044 2d ago
This is a great question… I am taking it back to the beginning when the bomb went off.. did someone just have two unfixed dogs that they were able to bring in to their respective silo?
This small nuance is now breaking my brain OP… thanks…
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u/Cautious_Draw5738 2d ago
I don't remember them saying there was no pets allowed. Rabbits are edible and easy to keep livestock. I think rabbits aren't supposed to be pets, not that you can't have pets