Talk:Guides/Hound Repelling/@comment-72.197.69.128-20130702190102/@comment-114.30.117.170-20130703145557

They are another two ways to defeat hounds, but they're not that good. Strafing hounds till morning is both dangerous and annoying, pigs have to be fed if you want them to follow you (although if you lead hounds to them they'll attack them anyway - no need for them to be provoked), and if you have pig followers during a full moon you've got a whole other problem to deal with.

Number 2 just says "make the best armor and weapons possible as soon as possible", which is what you'd be doing anyway right? The days also vary (see the hound page), so you're never QUITE sure when they come. Also, even WITH a football helmet and a log suit, you try killing 10 hounds. Then tell me how much health, sanity, helmet armor and log suit armor you have left. Then compare that to what you'd have to replace with the tooth trap tunnel of death. You'll find that this method is much more annoying, much more time-consuming, and much more resource-intense than the tooth trap tunnel method.

Also I believe these "methods" have already been mentioned in the other, general article. They're really only viable if you can't get to your tunnel, or you haven't built one yet.