So I just reinstalled BW. I downloaded both patches, the 4 extra creatures, the map installer, CachePackX, Kays's Training map, The Holy Boost map, and the safe version of Kong(From Krank.org) It won't work. All that happens is a little white box appears in the center of the screen, and then it...
Look, good gods are always having to spend a lot of time on there village, at least in BW1. I'd suggest going a bit evil and sacrificing half of them, then you would have enough power to do anything.
The lion may work for the basset hound. Unlike the tiger it is not super cat looking, and unlike the wolf its a bit more... houndish? but yeah, it may work for bw1. Maybe not for bw2.