thank you so much for your message!! I hope that this message board can be used to help others when they dont know what else to do!! -- I love "my boy" about as much as I love the Va Tech Hokies - that is who he is named after ... the legendary "Frank Beamer" thanks again and i hope that your basset rebounds from whatever happened to him - you are a special and wonderful person taking in a rescue dog= I dont know if I could do that...your Woofus looks alot like Beamer.. hoepfully I can learn how to download his picture soon!