Kitty I never realized how gentle and quite gray hounds are until you and KD introduced them to us. However the little fella you have is a pure mooch...and thinks she is a Great Dane...;-)
OH, trust me, don't think for one minute that "Harley" can't stand his ground. He might look all innocent, but he's really the "dog from H***". About 3 weeks ago he would not give up a bone, so he got into it with DD. I had just walked towards the sunline when I heard all the noise, came back in to find blood spattered allover. Harley got the edge of his ear sliced open, and it was bleeding like crazy, held compress on it until bleeding stopped, put fabric bandaid on it so that when he would shake his head he didn't cause it to start bleeding again.
NOW, do you think he learned a lesson, heck no, he was right back with the "big dog attitude" guarding a bone.