After leaving the hound, Montag's leg starts to get numb.
It attacks him, but he climbs the fire pole to escape.
The hound doesn't like Montag and this is because the hound is programmed to be able to sniff out chemical compistions of books
When Montag touches the machanical hound's snout it "wakes up" and begins to approach him. Montag starts to back away slowly. When the dog starts to growl, Guy quickly climbs up the fireman's pole up to the 2nd floor.
After the Mechanical Hound stabs Montag in the leg with a needle containing anesthetic he destroys the Hound with the flamethrower he used to burn down his house.
The Hound growls at Montag in "Fahrenheit 451" on page 28 of the 60th Anniversary Edition.
Montag mistakes a deer for the Hound in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." The deer startles Montag with its sudden appearance, causing him to compare its eyes and movement to those of the mechanical Hound.
during the manhunt for Montag by the hound, the camera identifies an innocent man as Montag because the hound had lost Montag. (Montag's disguise worked) In order to please the people watching the manhunt on television they killed a man but didn't get close enough to him with the camera for anybody to realize that it wasn't Montag.
Montag initially thinks he sees a person on the railroad tracks, but it turns out to be a mechanical hound.
Early in the novel, the Mechanical Hound growls at Montag, hinting at a future conflict between them. Beatty warns Montag that the Hound is never wrong and is capable of sensing any deviation from the norm, setting up a battle of wills between Montag and the Hound. When Montag becomes increasingly disillusioned with society and its reliance on technology, it sets the stage for a showdown with the Hound, which represents that same oppressive technology.
The Mechanical Hound smells like perfume to Montag. This unexpected smell alerts Montag to the fact that the Hound has been tampered with by Captain Beatty to track and catch him.
After the men leave, Montag hears the Mechanical Hound growling and lurking in the darkness outside his home. This indicates that the Hound is still a threat to him.
Montag thought the eyes of the Mechanical Hound were looking at him. He felt a sense of unease and felt like the Hound could see through him.
As Montag is running away, he is hit by a mechanical hound which injects him with a tranquilizer. This impairs his movement, slows him down, and puts him at risk of being caught by the authorities.