The Hounds

"Release the hounds."

―Mr. Burns^[src]

The Hounds

Animal Information Species: Dog Color: Black and brown Gender: Male ♂ Status: Alive Owner: Charles Montgomery Burns Occupation: Guard dogs First Appearance: "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" First Mentioned: "There's No Disgrace Like Home" Voiced by: Frank Welker[1]

The Hounds are Mr. Burns' cropped-eared black and tan Dobermann guard dogs who he releases to attack people he doesn't want on his property.

Named hounds[edit]

• Nipper
• Shadow
• Winston

Former[edit]

• Crippler^[1]
• Santa's Little Helper^[1]

Therapy hounds[edit]

Therapy Hounds

Therapy Hounds are sent by Mr. Burns to comfort Homer after his failed speech.^[2]

Trivia[edit]

Dobermanns are not hounds, but Pinscher. In another of Mr. Burns' anachronisms hound in Old English was the word for all domestic canines. Dog was just used to refer to a subgroup of hounds, but over 7 centuries later the opposite is now true. Releasing of the hounds remains associated with fox hunting.

Appearances[edit]

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References[edit]

See also[edit]

• Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann

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