Kath hound/Legends

Kath hounds were creatures indigenous to the planet Dantooine. They were about the size of a large dog, and were generally not very hostile unless provoked. At one point, the kath hounds started attacking the citizens of Dantooine and were blamed for numerous crimes, including the theft of a protocol droid. When Revan was being re-trained as a Jedi, one of the trials that Dantooine's Jedi Enclave council ordered him to complete was to remove a dark side taint which had made the kath hounds more violent. Kath hounds were also a popular pet for the crime lords of Nar Shaddaa, including Visquis and Vogga the Hutt.



There was also a breed of kath hound called a horned kath hound, which was more aggressive and dangerous than the standard hound. They had two tusks and were slightly larger than normal kath hounds. Certain horned kath hounds were born albino, and the rare albino specimens were the toughest of all kath hound subspecies, possibly because they adapted to their lack of camouflage. When Darth Malak bombarded Dantooine, the kath hound dwindled, and they became rare and prized as pets and guard animals for the wealthy and privileged.

It is possible that Juma Juice could be used to put kath hounds to sleep. Vogga the Hutt's pet kath hounds were knocked out this way.

Behind the scenes

 * It is possible, though unconfirmed, that the kath hounds went extinct at some point between the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, or maybe before, since they don't appear on Dantooine in Star Wars: Galaxies.
 * The horned kath hounds may have been based on, appearance-wise, the reek seen in Attack of the Clones.
 * The horned kath hounds may have evolved into reeks.
 * the expression "son of a Kath-hound" may be related to the earth expression "son of a bitch".



Appearances

 * Shadows and Light
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction

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