+1 amourousdog5 on the ears. My guy's are always in his food and water and it goes without saying they can't clean 'em, so you'll have to do it. Can also get snagged on things like, oh, barb fence, or doors closing, or the damn donkey's chomping mouth. So be ready for long ears. Ditto the jowls, heavy salivators they are, always drooly & slimy at the mouth. But that can also be a boon for intimacy time -- natural lube. Vocal breed too, get ready for baying. They vocalize in a cross between a long-winded, drawn-out bark and a howl. Very distinctive sound, like no other, but can get annoying. As for equanimity and pack harmony, yes, even kept intact with other intact males, they have been fine together. My pack stands at 6 large to giant breeds (1 female to 5 males). All of mine are intact, and all get along. The only time there's conflict is when the female goes into heat, but she is generally kept penned in my backwoods habitat for that, and peace is kept among the males (while I'm stuck 'working' overtime with them to keep 'em satisfied...).
Now for the advantages... they make wonderful lovers! Bloodhounds are passionate in ways I've not seen in other breeds. And I've experienced these same traits on two different bloodhounds now, so its not a quirk unique to my guy. Two things spring to mind: as a hunting breed they're very scent-obsessed even by canine standards and, once mounted and pounding away, will lick the backs of your arms as they're thrusting you. My guess is they're sampling the olfactory/gustatory stimuli under your arms, and this makes for some very powerfully intimate sex. The feeling of being licked while you're still being fucked feels so, very, highly erotic. I've never known another breed to lick arms or shoulders while they're still in full thrust. Most dogs are too occupied, too myopically absorbed in trying to knot, to be doing anything else in those moments -- but not hounds. Bloodhounds multitask!
Likewise, if you yourself are also a scent-hound, bloodhounds are plenty yeasty and musky all over! My guy has some delicious scent treasures to be savored all over him. Those ears again. That mouth again. Pawpads and between the toes. Under the tail. Between the legs. Up his back. All over! Yeah, we like a lot of mutual scent play and burrowing noses for deep sniffs of the other's body.
Stamina: get ready for slower, longer, drawn-out sex, because advantage #2 is the duration of that thrusting period. Bloodhounds are the only breed I've ever known to keep going at you even after they've knotted. Its almost as if they don't know it yet, like they can't sense the feeling of being knotted as quickly as others, or they're not satisfied, or something. Whatever the reason, expect longer sex, which can be both a blessing and curse all in one. Don't count on it being mercifully over lightning-fast, followed by the peaceful cessation of movement after knotting and a caudal turn. Nope. A hound may well stay on the horse, keep riding you longer than you expected. As a caution, you might want to plan on holding his knot outside the first few times until you gauge just how long yours will keep thrusting, because they often do not quit even after they're fully engorged and knotted up. Be prepared to take a pummeling that doesn't abruptly halt after that first ~30 seconds or less, like other breeds when their knotting & orgasm is reached. Hounds have this... odd proclivity to keep on pounding, which is awesome for those of us who are disappointed by the short-lived thrusting of other breeds, but can just as easily be a miserable painful hell for the uninitiated.
Libido: true to their name, hounds will 'hound' you for sex. They are relentless. My guy is constantly jumping my bones, shadowing behind me as I'm walking in the gate, climbing up me, digging dew claws in, clinging to me in mid-stride and holding on as I'm trying to get around doing chores. He literally does a walking, vertical mount as I'm in motion! When they're horny, manners go out the window. Subtlety, decorum, discretion, obedience? Forget all that. They do not give personal space, they do not take 'No' for an answer, and they will not give up til you give in. Which... lets face it... while it can be problematic, its also just plain fucken hot. Its simultaneously what we love so much about dogs: the horny. Its annoying when I'm trying to do the farm chores, but damned if I'm not smiling wry on the inside. I might be frustrated but inwardly I'm loving the ambition, the drive, the determination to breed me. There's no higher compliment than him climbing and trying to get all rapey soon as I'm in the gate. But if you live with other humans, its something to think about.
Endowment: practice, practice, practice. I can't harp on it enough. My guy's dick is positively mammoth. He's an unusual specimen for this breed, but expect big cocks on bloodhounds, because I haven't met one yet who is small to average. They are above the status quo for their weight class, and his is almost... freakish. When he's done and the knot pops free, I have to lean way forward to get him to flop the rest out of me. And every time I see it hanging there afterward, I can't help but stop and... marvel at it, how it was that this... elephantine thing came from between the legs of a dog who has an otherwise small-ish frame size and somehow still fit all of that inside me. Big paws, I should've expected it! Seriously tho. Be ready. Be very, very well-practiced on BIG toys. Because your next bloodhound is very possibly sporting the kind of dick I'd expect to see only on a giant breed, like a mastiff, kangal, St Bernard etc.
