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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>Chris and all.<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>While I would love to use the funds for medical bills, we all entered into this, with the understanding that the funds could not be used for them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>Pepsi wanted their grants to be community based, such as how will you use this to better the community. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>While you can write letters, I personally feel that asking for a change in midstream so to speak, is not fair to Pepsi. We all had full knowledge this money was to go to concrete projects better each rescue. While I had to work to come up with a concrete project, I did. So did you, since you won the grant. Would I have spent 10K on this project had we not won it, no. Will the hounds have a nicer environment because of it, yes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>To me, this is like marrying someone who does something you do not like, but is an inherent part of them, and thinking you can change them. Probably not going to happen, you knew it when you started.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>I don’t mean to sound rough here, hope it does not come across that way.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>wen and the Bounders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.seniorhoundsabound.org/"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>www.seniorhoundsabound.org</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'> check us out!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.bassetshop.com/"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>www.bassetshop.com</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'> shop online and help the Bounders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dailydrool-bounces@lists.dailydrool.org [mailto:dailydrool-bounces@lists.dailydrool.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Bly<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 24, 2012 3:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> dailydrool@lists.dailydrool.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Dailydrool] What do You think???<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Since I posted that we cannot use the funds we got from the Pepsi Challenge for medical bills for the Bassets in our care I have gotten several emails with lovely suggestions but one in particular that suggested if I could get some Droolers to write very nice letters to the Pepsi Cola Company asking that they reconsider letting the funds from the Pepsi Challenge to be used for vet bills maybe they would change the rules to allow rescues to use the funds for vetting. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>I know that several rescues have won funds from the Pepsi Challenge over the past year and wondered what they think of this idea. The worst thing Pepsi can say is no ... and I think if we all send a letter and be respectful and sweet they would definitely consider our plea. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>I do not want to make them mad and spoil funding more rescues in the future so if each letter is polite they will have no reason to object. I know Senior Hounds Abound and All Ears , Loozianna , Suncoast and the others could sure use the monies won for vetting. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Below is rule of the challenge that states the money cannot be used for medical proceedures for animals or humans. And beklow that I have psted the address for the Pepsi Cola Company. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Maybe on the outside of the envelope write Attention Pepsi Refresh Project Pepsi Challenge </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Applications</span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'> </span></b></span><strong><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>CANNOT to any degree</span></u></strong><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>: i</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>nvolve any type of medical research, procedure or alternate medical treatments or therapies for either humans or animals;</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Pepsi-Cola Company, 700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>