Blazehound

Blazehounds are pets that were released into the game on the 19 December 2012 along with the Bloodpouncer and Skypouncer. Blazehounds are available from Solomon's General Store for 1300 Runecoins. The blazehound was originally a sentinel in the Infernal Dimensions who guarded the Scorched Keep from any tormented souls.

The blazehound has three stages of growth - baby, adolescent, and adult. It will take approximately 15 hours to reach the adolescent stage and an additional 25 hours to reach the adult stage. This time can be halved by "playing" with your pet by making it do one of its two emotes. It appears that while the pet is with you, it generates its own pet points up to a cap of 30 points. When this cap is reached, simply making the pet do an emote will allow you to retrieve the generated points, making it possible to raise the pet in half the time.

A blazehound does not need to be fed like a normal pet. Although feeding it Tasty Treat will increase the rate at which it grows by 50%, and feeding it Jelly Treat will increase it by 100%.

Similar to Summoning Familiars, the blazehound has abilities. It has the ability to forage for random items, the ability to scavenge loot from slain enemies, and is periodically able to deposit an item to its owner's bank.

Abilities
The pet retains abilities from earlier growth stages when it learns a new ability

Forage
The blazehound can forage from the moment it is obtained. Some of the things that a blazehound is confirmed to be able to forage are as follows:


 * Coins: 10 to 500
 * Grimy Herbs: Guam, Harralander, Irit, Cadantine
 * Seeds: Potato, Sweetcorn, Onion, Wildblood, Jangerberry, Poison Ivy, Dwarf Weed
 * Remains: Bones, Big bones, Baby dragon bones

Banking
The pet is able to take an item to your bank when it reaches the adolescent stage, it can take one item every 10 minutes. The pet's ability to bank does not work in Wilderness Level 1 and beyond (further north). If one just crosses the Wilderness Wall (and the Wilderness level display does not actually appear; thus can be considered "Wilderness Level Zero") and does not walk north, then the pet's banking ability still can be used.

Scavenge
The blazehound is able to scavenge when it reaches adult stage. To access the scavenge feature, 'Interact' with the blazehound and select 'Convenience', then select 'Scavenge'. When scavenge is selected, a menu interface will appear; the pet will automatically collect charms, but is able to pick up other items too. You can make the pet scavenge: Gold, Runes & Talismans, Herbs & Seeds, Weapons, Armour, Metal Bars & Ore, Bones & Ashes, Raw & Cooked food and Miscellaneous.

To deactivate scavenge, 'interact' with your pet, select 'convenience' and select 'Heel'.

The pet will only pick up one item from a slain enemy, if an enemy drops two or more items the pet will only pick up one.

Emotes
The Blazehound Puppy is able to do two emotes which both look similar - 'Can't Pet This' and 'Play dead'. As said earlier they can increase the growth rate of the puppy but repetitively doing them is useless as after two to four times it will stop giving you pet points. It is a lot more beneficial to do it with intervals, of, say, 10 minutes perhaps to gain the maximum pet points.

The Blazehound Adolescent has two new emotes - however, it does not retain its old ones. One of its emotes is 'Fetch' - where your player throws something behind the blazehound and it turns to get it. The other emote, 'Stop, Drop and Roll', makes your pet go still for a moment, then drop to the ground and finally roll onto its side. A few moments later it gets up.

Following the pattern, the Blazehound Adult has another two new emotes - although it is unable to perform its previous four. 'Dog-eat-Goblin' is one of its emotes - where a goblin appears and then the Blazehound Adult seems to turn it to black ash then eat the remains. The second emote is named 'Hot Dog' where the Ground around it cracks so you can see something that could be referred to as magma in the ground. Four tall, thin spurts of flame shoot out around the Blazehound from the ground. Neither of these two emotes give any pet points however - seeing as your pet is fully grown there is no reason for it to have pet points any more apart from the fact that you can tell how long someone has had a pet by checking their pet's pet points.

Names
These are the possible names that can be given to the pets:
 * Fido (Latin for "I am faithful")
 * Pepper
 * Sparky
 * Tiny
 * Abaddon (Hebrew for "abyss")
 * Ahriman (Persian spirit of destruction)
 * Azazel (Uncertain object or place related to the scapegoat)
 * Cerberus (Greek guardian of the underworld)
 * Diabolos (Greek for "slanderer")
 * Kitty
 * Liono
 * Leandros (Greek for "lion of men")
 * Lionel (French for "little lion")
 * Leonard (Germanic for "brave lion")
 * Crispy
 * Toasty
 * Roasty
 * Ash
 * Igneous
 * Immy
 * Moley
 * Arc
 * Nemea (An ancient site in Greece)
 * Simurgh
 * Arezzo (A city in Italy)
 * Lycia (A former region in what is now Turkey)
 * Pixiu (A chinese winged lion)
 * Kirin (A chinese draconic lion)
 * Linus (The Greek demigod that created melody and rhythm)
 * Riddle