Hound Dog

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You mean nothing to me now!
The Heavy on people who ain't no friends of his

The Hound Dog is a community-created cosmetic item for the Heavy. It is a greased black quiff with sunglasses.

Painted variants

Main article: Paint Can
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Single colors
Painted Hound Dog E6E6E6.png Painted Hound Dog D8BED8.png Painted Hound Dog C5AF91.png Painted Hound Dog 7E7E7E.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey
Painted Hound Dog 141414.png Painted Hound Dog 2D2D24.png Painted Hound Dog 694D3A.png Painted Hound Dog 7C6C57.png
A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Painted Hound Dog A57545.png Painted Hound Dog CF7336.png Painted Hound Dog E7B53B.png Painted Hound Dog F0E68C.png
Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Painted Hound Dog E9967A.png Painted Hound Dog FF69B4.png Painted Hound Dog 7D4071.png Painted Hound Dog 51384A.png
Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet
Painted Hound Dog 2F4F4F.png Painted Hound Dog 424F3B.png Painted Hound Dog 808000.png Painted Hound Dog 729E42.png
A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green
Painted Hound Dog 32CD32.png Painted Hound Dog BCDDB3.png
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Painted Hound Dog A89A8C.png Painted Hound Dog 839FA3.png Painted Hound Dog 3B1F23.png Painted Hound Dog 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Hound Dog B8383B.png Painted Hound Dog 5885A2.png Painted Hound Dog 483838.png Painted Hound Dog 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Hound Dog 803020.png Painted Hound Dog 256D8D.png Painted Hound Dog 654740.png Painted Hound Dog 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Hound Dog C36C2D.png Painted Hound Dog B88035.png Painted Hound Dog UNPAINTED.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted

Update history

March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)

  • The Hound Dog was added to the game.

March 19, 2010 Patch

September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)

  • The Hound Dog was made paintable.
  • [Undocumented] Added a community-contributed description for this hat.
  • [Undocumented] The Hound Dog can now be uncrated with Unusual quality.

December 2, 2010 Patch

  • The Hound Dog's painting texture was improved.

Bugs

  • When a Spy disguised as a Heavy with this item cloaks, the item itself sometimes won't Cloak properly.

Notes

Trivia

  • The quiff and sunglasses look was popularized by Elvis Presley, who also made famous the song that the hat's name refers to. The item description also makes a reference to another one of Elvis's songs, "All Shook Up".
    • However, the song Hound Dog was originally written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952.