This is the mod for those unhappy about the fact, that Ushnar's Skinned Hound usually perishes during the first combat you engage with it at your side.

Features:

It is now essential (meaning it cannot be permanently killed, only rendered unconsious)
It now regenerates its health slowly (1hp/sec, about a half of what the weakest troll does)
It can now level with the character up to the level 30 instead of the original 5


If the hound is allready dead:

The body does not dissappear. Either find it, or type "player.moveto 72DA6" into the game console to move to it, select the body by clicking at it in console mode and type "resurrect".


If the hound is allready at your side:

The mod doesn't seem to be working on the allready spawned hound, you have to spawn it anew by abovementioned "resurrect" command, you might need to kill it first in your game version (you can do so by "kill" command if you don't want to strike friendly character for whatever reason)


To dismiss the hound:

I was thinking to script some basic commands, but what the hey, just disable the essential status by console command "setessential 72DA4 0" and kill it, it's undead after all. The body does not dissapear and later, you can "resurrect" it and re-enable the essential status by "setessential 72DA4 1" command.


Installation:

copy the file to your OblivionData folder and allow it in Oblivion launchner or in your mod manager.

Have fun with your undying doggie friend