Talk:Hound/@comment-5853019-20121212001208

my strategy has been to have a spear as my default equipment (or 1st in my inventory ,not backpack) and to have a logsuit as my first slot in the backpack. and finally to always have all my monster meat on me (can be used for cooking in a pot for stew or as a distraction) i normally get 3-5 hounds at once and a stack of ten monster meat distracted them fully while i killed all 5 of a wave. using this stratregy i am at day 41 and counting, i have not died to hounds yet.

PS, if you arent prepared and get caught out, having your camp near a herd of beefaloes can save you. simply kite the hounds so they run over the beefaloes and hope that they start fighting. since some of the beefaloes will almost certainly die, you can get some meat out of this, althought there are the downsides of losing the animal for a long time.