Well, The Walking Dead is fiction, so I don't consider it to be a solid source of factual information about zombies. Sort of like how Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets some facts about Lincoln's life right, but is mostly fictitious and not a scholarly biography.
Treadmills for dogs are actually a good idea. My parents altered an old human treadmill for their dog. He loves it. There's no way they'd be able to take him as far and as fast as he wants to run.
Real zombies lack the ability to produce body heat. They freeze when the water in their bodies freezes.
Now if Papa John's made perfume, that would attract me.
As we Ferengi teach: opportunity plus instinct equals profit.