dear hborre, i remember you too, i went to hivewire and thence to renderosity who sold bigdog to me and read README and it said only about installing that first i must delete some files which are:

DAZ Studio Users:

To install this update, please first DELETE the following files

\Animals\HiveWireBigDog\Poses\Base\

!Zero All.duf

!Zero All.duf.png

!Zero Body.duf

!Zero Body.duf.png

!Zero Face.duf

!Zero Face.duf.png

Then, install update over current files.