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Our new Australian Terrier Club of America Health Survey is finally complete and ready for action. This year, the Health survey is available on the web and can be accessed at 2008 ATCA Health Survey

If you wish to participate by mail and would like a paper version sent to you, please contact

Teresa Schreeder
ATCA Health Co-Chair
6829 Pleasants Valley Rd
Vacaville, CA 95688-9715

Email: pete128@earthlink.net

All Health Survey responses are kept confidential, so please be honest. Remember, if you are an ATCA member and wish to be listed in the upcoming 2009 Breeder Referral directory, participation in the Health Survey is required and you must include your demographic information in order to be counted. All demographic information submitted through the website is removed from the survey responses to ensure your confidentiality.

Thank you all for your support! What we have accomplished thus far would not be possible without it.

Thanks,

Michelle Bell
ATCA Health Co-Chair
3426 Hollow Pond Rd
Hayes, VA 23072

Email: aussielvr@gmail.com


Support Our Breed! To take the Survey, please click here

With this in mind, it is the intent of the Australian Terrier Club of America Health Committee to be available via the web to as many Aussie owners as possible. We wish to emphasize from the outset that these questionnaires are not limited to ATCA members, but are for anyone from around the world who owns or has loved an Australian Terrier in life.

Please note that these forms are intended to collect health and mortality information not previously reported by owners during the ATCA 2008 Health Survey. If you have already participated in our 2008 survey and your Australian Terrier has since been diagnosed with another health problem, please report the new diagnosis on the Health Incident Report form. If your Aussie is in good health, please tell us. We need to know about healthy Aussies, too! If you have never reported on your Aussie's health, we ask that you do so at your earliest convenience.

Our Health Incident Report (see below) was developed as a feedback tool for every Aussie owner whose dog(s) may have experienced health problems, especially those owners who have lost contact with their breeder, or who may have adopted an Australian Terrier from a pet store or shelter. Each of the downloadable forms that appears below was designed to be filled out on the computer using MS Word and then returned by email to us as an attachment. Alternatively, for those who do not have access to Word, the forms may also be downloaded using the free Adobe Reader plug-in, then printed off and filled-in by hand.

If you have lost an Australian Terrier to illness or injury and would like to help others in honor of your Aussie's memory, we ask that you fill out our Longevity Survey (see below). Your much-needed participation in this area will enable us to identify mortality issues affecting our breed and allow us to better focus our resources in such areas when allocating funds for research.

We wish to emphasize that any information provided to us will NOT be shared with anyone else. All responses given remain STRICTLY confidential and will be utilized by the ATCA Health committee only for the purpose of identifying important breed health problems and trends.

To all of you who truly care about our breed, we wish to thank you in advance for your desire to support the Australian Terrier by helping us to make a difference.

NEW! Do you have a health concern or question about your Aussie? Our Health Committee members can help you with the right questions to ask your veterinarian. Email aussiehealthquestion@gmail.com

For helpful information about how to cope with specific canine diseases, please visit the links available on the Australian Terrier Health site at http://www.australianterrierhealth.org

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