In Fahrenheit 451, describe what the mechanical hound can do to the human body.

The mechanical hound is clearly described as a deadly
predator designed specifically to hunt down and immobilise prey. When we are first
introduced to the mechanical hound that is kept in the fire station, we are told how to
amuse themselves the firemen would let loose rats or other animals in the firestation
compound and watch the ensuing carnage:

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The animals were turned loose. Three seconds
later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway,
gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel neeedle plunged down from the
proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or
procaine.

Of course, we see
how the hound operates with a human at the end of the story, when the hound catches a
man who is depicted to be Montag and leaps up into the air, before seizing this poor
figure and injecting him in the same way that the animals are injected and
killed.