I love Xerxes because he is. He is smart, clever, super observant. He is gentle when he should be, very stable and hardly excitable unless there's prey around.
I also love the connection that we share. Even when we normally go left, the day I want to go right on the trail, he knows it. The way he reads me is amazing.
I also love his silliness and sense of humor, how he can be super silly and never once feel self conscious about it. I love him for his grace, elegance and charm. I also love how he fools people into thinking that Pharaoh Hounds are good companion dogs and easy to live with, if I weren't around to tell everyone that there'd be a thousand PHs in this area, and very few would be quiet or well behaved!