It has eight legs. Not six or four, but eight spider-like legs.
In "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, the Hound is a mechanical creature programmed to attack and kill. It doesn't have legs in the traditional sense as it moves around on robotic machinery.
The mechanical hound in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" has eight legs.
The mechanical hound in Fahrenheit 451 could remember the scent of ten thousand different individuals.
In Fahrenheit 451, the mechanical hound is ultimately destroyed by Montag, who uses a flamethrower to disable and destroy the robot.
In "Fahrenheit 451," the fireman named Montag turns the flamethrower on the mechanical hound, destroying it in self-defense as it is programmed to attack him.
the Hound injects its victims with fatal amounts of morphine
Because the hound is watching over him!
The Hound growls at Montag in "Fahrenheit 451" on page 28 of the 60th Anniversary Edition.
The hound doesn't like Montag and this is because the hound is programmed to be able to sniff out chemical compistions of books
In "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, the white animal is actually a mechanical hound. This hound is used by the fire department to track down those who are in possession of books and hunt them down. Its purpose is to eliminate any threat to the society's strict anti-book laws.
Montag believes that the Hound, a robotic creature in Fahrenheit 451, has been programmed and tampered with to ensure it identifies Montag as a threat and hunts him down. He is suspicious that the Hound has been manipulated to target him specifically.
They bet on how long it will take the hound to catch and kill small animals
Page 24 in the Paperback, in the hardback I would guess maybe 25 or 26