Possible Clues:

• Bizarre
• Zany
• Strange hound -- tail's wagging
• Bizarre and unpopular line put to an attractive girl
• Not in the country his substitute who's bizarre
• Off-the-wall
• Bizarre — hound's tail (anag)
• Perhaps not by way of the inland - it's too rough
• Bizarre oik left behind by an attractive person
• Exotic estate possibly required? Not in his travelling about