The dog idea is an excellent one.
What do your people eat? If they are living in mist, on the run, for a third of the year they can't exactly store up a season's worth of food and last on that. If something attacked they would have to abandon their storage and then they'd be in trouble.
Dogs are excellent hunting companions. I hunt with both scent and sight hounds. If we were in a survival situation I have no doubt that as long as there was enough game to hunt, we would have no problem collecting enough meat for my family and dogs to live on.
If a dog is eating a raw diet, the general guideline is 3% of their body weight in meat every day. My 50 lb. wirehaired pointing griffon taught himself to fish for sea cucumber and to dive underwater for butter clams at high tide. He will swim out and bring them in, until we make him stop. Once he caught a trout just by wading into a stream and being patient. He also is an excellent bird dog, creeping up on them like a cat and going into a point, sometimes less than 3 feet from the bird without it noticing. If your people are living in fog, and there isn't enough daylight to support a lot of plant growth, a dog would be a valuable ally in finding game, could be trained to find edible mushrooms, detect bad guys, slow down bad guys, etc.
What do your people eat? If they are living in mist, on the run, for a third of the year they can't exactly store up a season's worth of food and last on that. If something attacked they would have to abandon their storage and then they'd be in trouble.
Dogs are excellent hunting companions. I hunt with both scent and sight hounds. If we were in a survival situation I have no doubt that as long as there was enough game to hunt, we would have no problem collecting enough meat for my family and dogs to live on.
If a dog is eating a raw diet, the general guideline is 3% of their body weight in meat every day. My 50 lb. wirehaired pointing griffon taught himself to fish for sea cucumber and to dive underwater for butter clams at high tide. He will swim out and bring them in, until we make him stop. Once he caught a trout just by wading into a stream and being patient. He also is an excellent bird dog, creeping up on them like a cat and going into a point, sometimes less than 3 feet from the bird without it noticing. If your people are living in fog, and there isn't enough daylight to support a lot of plant growth, a dog would be a valuable ally in finding game, could be trained to find edible mushrooms, detect bad guys, slow down bad guys, etc.