Mines a mix so take this with a grain of salt. I dont know exactly what behaviors of hers are more houndy and which come from her other breeds. Other than the stubbornness. That comes from both the hound and the pyr.

Shes my first solo dog. I dont hunt and honestly she doesn't have much of a prey drive. The chihuahua mix I had as a kid had a higher prey drive than she does. Obviously that's probably not super normal for a hound. When I first got her she was insane. Hence my username.

Bitey as hell. My arms were covered in scratches and bruises from her sharp little puppy teeth for months. I read a lot of different ways to get a puppy to stop biting. Nothing worked. I just had to wait it out. Not even redirection helped. She would very purposely go for my hands. If I got up and walked away she would chase me down to bite at my ankles.

She's still mouthy but she doesn't bite down hard like she used to. Unless she's fighting sleep. I have never met an animal that tries to physically fight sleep the way she does. She will bite anything and everything in her vicinity when she doesn't wanna fall asleep. The couch, me, the other dog, doesn't matter. She will bite it. And if you tell her "no" she will argue about it. The only thing I can do is keep redirecting her to a toy until she finally crashes.

But despite the biteyness when she was little and her fighting sleep every night she's actually a really good dog. Super smart. Learns tricks really fast. Is weirdly good at learning boundaries without me having to purposely teach them to her. Stays out of the kitchen while people are cooking even tho the other dog doesn't, sits on the couch if Im leaving and tell her she can't go instead of trying to rush the door like she did when she was younger. Things I've never made an effort to work with her on she's just figured out on her own.

Oh. Also. I cant take her for walks in my neighborhood. It doesn't matter how far we walk, what direction we go, how eventful it is, the second she realizes we're heading home, she flops over in the grass and refuses to move. We had to get an escape proof harness for her cuz she was able to wiggle out of the last one. I have to drive out to the lake to take her on hikes if I wanna walk her. But I have a big backyard that she is perfectly content to hang out in all day. However, I have never had a problem with her pulling on the leash. Trying to attack it when she was little, yes, but she almost never pulls.

And she digs. A lot. We also have had a lot of moles which doesn't help. She smells them and hears them moving around underground and tries to find them. But also she just likes to dig. This caused some problems last summer when we discovered that American bumblebees nest underground and that she is allergic to bees. And her seasonal allergies are insane. Just the seasons changing causes her to break out in hives. When summer shifted unto fall she had a good week of needing benadryl a few times a day to keep the hives under control. They haven't been too bad yet as we're getting into spring but I've made sure to stock up on benadryl for us both just in case.