Hell Hound

Hell hounds are the classic and reliable denizens from below to sick on low level parties. While they are rumored to originate from the plane of fire, most are claimed by devils of the Nine Hells. In fact, Asmodeus himself has a handful especially bred to burn order into his adversaries, screams echo of the great Nessian Warhounds.

Origins

In the plane of fire, azers, the crafters, are said to create such a fearsome beast. They were able to snag a very alive wolf subject from the beastlands, well it was alive until it succumbed to a quick and painful heat death upon entering the plane of fire. The azers split the body down the middle, forced a living flame into it, and stitched them back up with a thread made of pure flame. Once reassembled, the hell hound burst into flames and promptly exhaled fire onto its creator, and the creator knew he had something worthwhile.

While it is important to look at the fiction, it is also nice to learn from the past editions. Hell hounds were one of the first monsters, appearing back in OD&D, and has arrived in each edition since. In OD&D, the canine could deal fire damage equal to its health, which I find quite interesting. These primal dogs that exist in a world where it is kill or be killed deal damage equal to how tough they are. I think this is an amazingly concise way to illustrate that the bigger, faster, and stronger of the crew will be the biggest threat to your party.

The Hunt

Hell hounds eat anything with flesh and bone. From its wolf-like origins, they crave and ravage anything edible, but target the weakest of the group (watch out, wizards). This food doesn't go through to a stomach, but feeds the ever burning flame within them, often making them hit a growth spurt and shoot hotter and wilder flames.

Their obedience is commendable and their senses impeccable, which is why the hell dwellers use them to hunt a target and rip them to shreds. Often times when a hell hound is spotted in the material plane, it isn't accompanied by their master, but just other hell hounds. This is because barking (pun intended) orders can disrupt the very concentrated focus that a pack of hell hounds has together. One hell hound means a challenge. Two hell hounds means injury. Three or more means death.

Appearance

Monsterous canines that are black as coal when stalking shift into blazing wovles when agitated, with fire erupting not only from their fur, but also and more notably from their eyes a

pretty much summed it all up in the title. any way to walk a dog without having to walk? sounds silly but man I'm tired when I get home from work. I wanna take my dog out but my dogs are barking! pun intended. thanks for your advice!

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Blank stares. My talents are so wasted without kids.

living in a apartment complex that allows animals can be annoying and difficult if people have untrained animals. There was a couple who constantly fight and their untrained dog would non-stop bark at all hours of the day and night. There were multiple complaints about them and their dog. So just took it another step further, used a dog whistle to get dog to bark every night at 3am to wake up their owners and our neighbors, resulting in enough complaints to get them kick out of the complex all together.

My next door neighbours have 2 dogs (pug and French bulldog). The neighbors tend to leave them in the garden most of the time and they run around constantly barking at nothing. We have asked them to try and stop the noise a bit but they don't bother. So whenever the dogs start their barking I open my window and bark back and the neighbors then come out and bring them back in. I guess because they don't want to hear me barking? I see it as a harmless way to diffuse the situation but my mum is calling me an asshole and saying she doesn't want any trouble with them. Am I the asshole?

I had a neighbor that had a dog that I shit you not, barked from bout 7pm til 5am NON STOP. They worked nights I believe. They kept it outside. I knocked numerous times, and they said: "Dogs bark, what do you expect?"

Their house was directly behind mine, we shared a divided wall. I recorded their dog for a full day. The minute they brought him in, and felt like they were sleeping, I popped my phone into the dock and played it on my stereo full blast facing their yard at 9am.

They came over raving mad to my wall by about 12, asking me to shut my dog up. I said "Its your dog, I recorded him, since you miss out on what dogs do. I'm just playing the radio at normal allowable city time and I will do this everyday."

They started bringing the dog in at night after that.

And then I started sobbing harder than I’ve let myself cry in many many years because???? and he just settled calmly by my side for the remainder of my cry. I’ve never cried like that in front of anyone, or even come close to letting someone comfort me when I’m in the middle of such a helpless and vulnerable state. It was the most unexpected, beautiful moment I’ve shared with another being in a long time. I’ve spent months preparing for how to train a puppy I had not realized he had stuff to teach me as well. I hope I can return the same degree of love to him.

If you can't keep your dog from intimidating others you shouldn't expect delivery staff to put themselves in harms way to deliver your shit.

"But muh puppy doesn't bite, he's just a loud barker"

Maybe with you, but the person delivering doesn't know that and even small breeds can break skin. Delivering is already a very stressful job with all the deadlines and physical aspect of it.

Here's another thing, do you seriously think that UPS or FedEx drivers have good health insurance? What if the person trips while running away from your dog? What of your dog does break some skin or gives PTSD to the delivery personn?

If you want to keep your loud ass dog on the loose, that's fine. But delivery workers should have the right to skip your delivery until they feel safe enough to do their job.

Edit 1: seeing some downvotes, which could mean there is truth here somehow someway?

This is not financial advice and I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the contents of my post. This is purely for ape information and I thought it was interesting that the original Reddit post was deleted along with the OP him/herself so fast from Reddit.

Credit the original post (I think?) to u/Lunarnautics <user now deleted>:

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This has been really bumming me out as I'm a big gardener and tried to make the backyard kind of like my oasis. But getting constantly barked at for hours on end isn't very fun. I've tried treats, the dog didn't even eat them. Now it looks like the dog is being destructive on my fence jumping on it to get to me (full grown german shepherd.) The neighbors don't seem to be doing much to correct the issue, honestly they seem incredibly clueless and out of their league as the dog is being super destructive and kind of aggressive to their kids. I even saw the wife chase the dog with a shoe and them put it in the garden shed for hours. It also has done visible damage to their house not just my fence. I'm not the type to tell someone what to do with their pet or get involved unless I see full on abuse, but if there's something I can do to help with the dogs reactivity to me being in my backyard that'd be helpful for my fence and my sanity.

Hi, I'm having an ongoing problem with my dog's barking and I honestly do not know what to do anymore. He barks at any noise coming from outside my apartment, but only when either my boyfriend or I are in the house. He doesn't bark when we're gone.

I've tried to give him treats as soon as he does quiet down when I say "quiet". I've tried saying "quiet" and if he doesn't stop barking, I say "too bad" and put him in a time out (usually the bathroom). I've tried ignoring him. I've tried to tell him "thank you" and make him do a little trick right after. We've also tried having one of us go in the hallway and make noise to try to desensitize him to the noises. Nothing's working and I'm honestly losing my mind.

We walk him twice a day for 20 mins (as per the vet's recommendations because he has knee problems), and he also get 2-3 outings during the day. We also do little spontaneous training and play sessions throughout the day. I just don't know what to do anymore...

I can’t fucking stand it anymore. I moved into an apartment and every single night when I am trying to go to bed, somewhere in the houses in the neighborhood near my apartments, all fucking night long I am hearing dogs barking to no end. Do these owners just leave these stupid fucking mutts outside to bark the entire night? I can’t imagine how their actual neighbors feel?! I would be fucking livid.

Now, every morning as well! I am awoken by what sounds like 5 different species of dogs in the distance, barking away like there’s no tomorrow. Nobody stopping them, nobody putting their foot down, just let the stupid fucks bark bark bark all morning long! It’s not like anybody is trying to get some sleep or anything?!

What makes it even more annoying is how stupid and pathetic their barks sound. I haven’t seen what any of these dogs look like but I am almost certain they are probably some stupid, ugly and dumb breed of dog that would’ve been better off not even existing. If you can’t tell, I’m pretty fucking upset. Any suggested solutions?

Hi guys, I have a quick question. I have a neighbor, a guy and his wife (aged late 20's to early 30's) who have two 'fur-babies' (their words, not mine) and they allow the two dogs to bark at very unusual hours, such as 11:21 PM (which I was able to record on video) and early as 6:15 AM.

I have contacted them in-person and asked them to not allow the dogs to bark so early or late, but the wife openly lied to me that her dogs were even barking. I know that she is lying because a fence divides my house between her's and the dogs' barking is loud. If it is waking me up from sleep at odd hours, and before/after noise ordinances, what should I do?

Clearly, she is a devout dog-nutter and a liar. The only problem about calling animal control is that they have to see the barking for themselves and the neighbors take their dog in, so I don't think animal control is going to be much help.

Any suggestions will be appreciated! Thank you all!

for whatever reason my neighbor , about 10 houses down started letting his dog bark through an open window at 7 in the fucking morning and letting it bark and bark and bark until around 9-10.

the day i snapped was when i was woken up by the dog at 5:40a.m. I talked to my other neighbor about it in passing who lives directly across the street. she revealed her husband who had died of cancer the previous month, SUFFERED. she said he would return from chemo and all he wanted to do was rest he couldn’t get any peace because of that fucking dog.

that really got me fuming. i called animal control (which is a joke in my city because they don’t do anything with the amount of wild dog attacks we have) they basically said even if they come out, if the dog isn’t barking when they get here then there’s nothing they can do. so i wrote an anonymous letter and left it in his mailbox. i layed it on about how fucking terrible it is living on the same block as him, and he should respect his neighborhood.

weeks go by, i never hear the dog again. see my neighbor again who’s husband had the cancer and i asked her about the dog, apparently after my letter the owner had the son take the dog to a different address.

what a win guys!

After the accident, though, the only thing he barks at is me.

The dog barks and barks all night to be let back inside. I can’t see the dog from my window so no idea which house it’s in. Is there anything I can do? I’m assuming I can’t file a noise complaint when I don’t know where the noise is coming from.

Hi, I was wondering if people could help on where we go next. Our neighbours own a large dog that they let out in the garden every morning, at various points between about 6.30am - 7.45am. Our bedroom window is right by their garden, and every time the dog goes out it barks. They leave it out alone, and it will bark intermittently for between 2-5 minutes each time, more than once - as it is a large dog it has a loud, deep bark. I have tried earplugs and we have double glazing, and it does need to change as I regularly have to work late so need to sleep a little later in the day.

Of course, the best thing to do in these situations is talk to the person first. Unfortunately I have little faith in their willingness to change - we explained the situation and a polite request to take the dog out on a lead/keep it in slightly longer was met with 'that's not possible for us'.

The dog also barks at other times of day but I'm less concerned about those, it's more the ones that you know, wake us up every day. My question is, where do we go from here? Does this count as a nuisance? I just want to not be sleep deprived by a few hours each day.

For context, we rent privately and they own if that helps. Thanks all.

hi everyone! i am really getting into some more intensive training after an unfortunate period of procrastination on my part. I have a pit mix who doesn’t bark all the time, but when he does bark, he will not stop! I’m pretty sure it’s alert barking and not demand barking, since it’s almost always triggered by a neighbour’s door slamming, a dog in the distance, someone walking up our porch, loud cars parking, and so on.

Right now we live in a rural area with other loud, barky dogs so it’s never been something I was overly concerned about. However, this summer, I’ll be moving into an apartment in the city. It’s a basement apartment, with only one other unit on top, but the sounds of them walking down the stairs is quite clear and I imagine that will be something that triggers alert barking. Obviously, I don’t want to get evicted or complained about by my neighbours but it is a dog friendly building and I have reasonable expectations so I’m not hoping to have him never bark again, I just want to be able to stop him if he gets into a frenzy, and for him to know when it isn’t appropriate I guess.

I’ve done some reading on this sub and others but I’m inexperienced and a little overwhelmed with the different strategies. So far, the three big ones Ive seen are: desensitization, training a trick to do instead of bark, and teach “quiet”. I personally don’t really feel like the third is the best option for us, because teaching him to speak would be the first step, and since he really only barks when triggered (which can be once a day, or 10 times) it would probably take a long time to teach.

But I’m worried that desensitization might reinforce that bark = treat and make the problem worse? I don’t know, I’d love to hear from other people what method worked the best for their dog in a similar situation :) I’m willing to put in the time and I know it’s not an immediate fix, but I really want something that’s clear, efficient and successful!! Please let me know if you have any suggestions or success stories :)

Background: He’s 5YO Beagle/foxhound mix adopted as a rescue when he was a few months old. He is the sweetest thing, but so bad. I never did a great job training him (he’s house trained fine) and chews EVERYTHING (typical for the breed I guess). Pre-pandemic he would have to be crated if alone since god knows what he would try and eat (literally like baby-proofing the house). During the pandemic I was always here and he’s gotten so used to the extra love and attention he’s spoiled in it now.

So, whenever he wants anything, he barks incessantly and starts trolling around the house looking for trouble (things to get a hold of, knock over, you name it) to get my attention. I can lock him in the crate but the incessant barking does NOT STOP and has just gotten worse.

The last thing I want to do is muzzle him I find it so cruel but it’s gotten to the point of affecting my work (during zoom meetings, etc) and I don’t know what to do. If you have any suggestions, it’d be greatly appreciated. Please help!