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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.25pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129'>Dear Basset Hound Lovers of the World,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.25pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129'>I am delighted to post on behalf of the BHCA Basset Health Survey Committee that the 2016 Survey of Basset Hound Health was wildly successful. Over 1000 people from 17 countries reported health data for over 7400 dogs! WOW! Many, many thanks to all of you who participated. Because of the amount of data we collected, we are going to be releasing several reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.25pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129'>The first one is done and posted on the Basset Hound Club of America web</span><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>site at</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'> </span></span><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'><a href="http://basset-bhca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=528&Itemid=390" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899'>http://basset-bhca.org/index.php…</span></a>. It summarizes health conditions among 5871 purebred Basset Hounds.</span></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1D2129'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.25pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>If you are interested in getting email notifications from us when more reports are released or when future Basset Hound health research studies (ours or others') are recruiting participants, we invite you to sign up at</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'> </span></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BassetHealthSurveyInterest" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899'>https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BassetHealthSurveyInterest</span></a>. We won’t share your contact information or use it for any other purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.25pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.25pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>Meanwhile, we hope you find the first report interesting and useful. Please feel free to contact me or the committee ( bassethealthsurvey@gmail.com) with any feedback, comments, questions you have.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sandi Wittenberg<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Red Bay Bassets<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>