<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV>Utah Friends of Basset Hounds has a week in the Drool voting. We are in</DIV>
<DIV>pretty solid 2nd place in Utah (after Best Friends--a lot depends on the state </DIV>
<DIV>you are in and who your competition is- we always have to wait for B Friends </DIV>
<DIV>to win before we get our shot--)</DIV>
<DIV>Anyway, we have decided to give our voting week to another rescue. We</DIV>
<DIV>want whoever has the best chance of getting any money to have our votes.</DIV>
<DIV>At this point, Western Missouri is still 4th in MO. If we could get them to #1,</DIV>
<DIV>that is another way to win.</DIV>
<DIV>Florida, even if you don't get the weekly high, if you can be ranked higher in </DIV>
<DIV>your state, we will give you the week. </DIV>
<DIV>We can also move our week to last, if it isn't too confusing--</DIV>
<DIV>and that would give all the rescues their shot and then we would go with</DIV>
<DIV>the one with highest state ranking?? </DIV>
<DIV>We also have all the weeks after the original groups each get one to focus on</DIV>
<DIV>making sure the bassets get some Shelter Challenge money. We will have</DIV>
<DIV>to analyze who has the best chance and try to give them the push. </DIV>
<DIV>Don't know how else to do it-- Really appreciate everyone voting. </DIV>
<DIV>Marilyn Briggs</DIV></div></body></html>