Talk:Hellhound/@comment-32576127-20181221195116/@comment-27950421-20190109012152

Found it, my old post explaining the difference between a hypothetical hellkitteh and helldoggo.

Judging by the profile, Hellhounds have a typical alpha mentality (real alpha not beer swilling frat boy wannabe). That comes with a pretty clear cut set of goals:

Be the bossProtect and Care for the pack (that would be you)Make babies

Cats are not pack animals, they tolerate each presence and cooperate but they have no emptional investments in one another and as soon a resources start to dwindle, they will stab eachother in the back with no hesitation. So a Hellcat list of priorities would be like this:

get what I wantmake babies

Simply put, dogs have very strong emotional bonds, cats rarely make those bonds at all. A Hellhound would have a very strong emotional investment in making sure that happy and healthy, because while she may be an alpha she's still a pack animal, her pack (you) being happy makes her happy and her pack (you) being unhappy or hurt makes her unhappy. It's just how pack animals work. Empathy is an adaption in pack animals.

Cats are not pack animals. A cats ability to feel empathy is extremely limited. They are the serial killers of the animal kingdom. Hellcats don't care if your happy. As long as you still giving her what she wants, then good enough.

Granted we still have the whole mamono and they lurve you deal, but still, taking the pack loyalty out of a hellhound is a terrible idea and would result in a mamono that can only be liked by someone who is a total masochist.