The Walking Dead Midseason Premiere: Who Are Michonne’s Pets?

This week, Michonne once again took on (albeit briefly) a pair of “pet” walkers–stripped of their arms and jaws, the helpless ghouls were tied together and carried along with Michonne to help steep her in the smell of rotting zombie and thus keep her off the radar of more offensively-capable walkers.The episode also revisited, a bit, the question of just who her original pet walkers were before she had to decapitate them (when they were making too much noise while she and Andrea were trying to hide from The Governor). The comic books and the TV series appeared, until now, to have had a different backstory for the pets, but it seems as though that’s been changed.In the early stages of the zombie apocalypse, the comic books revealed that Michonne’s boyfriend Mike was bitten, but she did not realize he was infected. After returning from a supply run, she returns home to find that both Mike and his friend Terry have turned into walkers. She’s able to lock the two away, but her house becomes surrounded by walkers and she’s trapped. Because she notices that walkers don’t attack each other, she hacks off Mike and Terry’s arms and lower jaws and chains them up in order to escape her home. Having success with that, she kept them around to serve that purpose until she hooked up with Rick and his group and had more articulate sources of protection.