Hello, HelenB! I'm back- from Alaska (sooooo beautiful). Some friends of ours offered to let our beagle stay with them, and when we called from AK to find out if they were still talking to us they said that he kept walking into walls. We knew he was losing his eyesight but had no idea that his vision was this bad; of course he's able to compensate at home (from sofa to food dish- twelve steps forward, seven to the left). Poor little guy.