How to play Pound of Hounds

About Pound of Hounds, from BoardGameGeek:

Pound of Hounds is a comedic and cunning, canine themed dedicated deck, strategic party game with over 50 unique hand-drawn doggo's to Draw from. Strategise, collect cards and use your abilities to gather your dogs and finally "claim your Pound of Hounds over friend and foes alike". Throughout the game players will discard cards from their hand to use the cards ability (including picking up more cards, stealing cards from other players hand, discarding other players hands, swapping hands, ect..) or trade in 3 cards of the same class (indicated by the cards colour and icon in the top left corner) for an Alpha card the same class. To win the game players must collect either 3,5 or 7 Alpha cards depending on the number of players in the game. -description from the publisher