Just to follow up - we adopted the hound. She's been in our house about a week now and is adapting very well. She's very sweet when she's asleep, and a terror when she's awake, she's tall enough and coordinated enough to get her paws on the kitchen counter, silent as a ninja. You only know something's up when you hear things crashing to the floor.
She doesn't bark much at all, except to bark back at the neighbor dogs when they bark at her. She's afraid of the two behind our house, right now she runs back to the house when they bark at her.