my lil girl danny died the week everything happened September 11th... actually she past on the 13th ...my husband had lost his job the next day and we were moving...I felt like i didnt know what was up or down for a month ...it really hit me around christmas when things slowed down a bit...I just started crying saying that i didnt even have a chance to mourn my best friend...we think she had a stroke ..for two days the vet wasnt available and his replacement wanted money upfront which we didnt have...those two day were so horrible she walked around as in a daze like she didnt know any of us...the vet gave me meds and sent her home that night around 1am she started having siezures it looked like someone hit her with a two by four the way she fell over...i put her in my lap and held her all night when she would start siezing i would make sure she wouldnt hit her head....i was so thankfull that it had happened that late and my children were asleep...that started on the 11 th ....i finally got a hold of my vet on the 12th and we took her in i called the next morning and he said he would call me back i went to his office and the nurse says "ok sure youll put you in a room to visit her "i said ok and then she comes back out and tell me the doc needs to see me in the room...i go in the room and no danyiel ...he comes in and says im so sorry...he said her heart was so swollen up most of her chest cavity...before she left for the vets office i had said my goodbyes to her..as i have said for two days she didnt know me...right before my husband took her out the door she turned and gave me two kisses took one last look back and that was the last time we ever saw each other...then came trying to explain to a 3 yr old what happened and why...ill never forget those two last kisses and how they seemed to say more than ten thousand words...i miss her so much ...i do want another hound but for right now we cant do it we are taking care of a elderly man and a 3 and four yr old ..maybe sometime with in the next year we will be able to get another dog but i dont know if im ready as im sure all you basset lovers will agree no dog can ever replace another...thank you so much for this forum i really did need to rant about this because i have kept it bottled for so long