Category : K9 Information

K-9 Zodiac Eyes!

Hello everyone today i would like to retouch on the K-9 Zodiac eyes what they are and how to get them.

First off let me give a brief detail on what the chines zodiac is.

In Chinese astrology the animal signs assigned by year represent what others perceive you as being or how you present yourself.

Now with that said we gave this eye a slight twist. Each month the eyes rotate every 2-3 days and one K-9 Kennel on the grid will get the eye when the kennel drops.

Now whats so awesome about these eyes is each eye will have the months birthstone along with the symbol of the chines zodiac for the time frame it was dropped!!

It is completely random in which K-9 Kennel on the grid that is dropped will get it. So its a guessing game will your next kennel have a zodiac eye guess you will have to wait and see. Good luck and Happy Breeding.

 

BTW here is a link containing pictures of all the zodiac eyes to date for the K-9s we are currently on Year of the Tiger – Pearl

http://wiki2.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Chinese_Zodiac_Eyes

K-9’s Nose an Tails

Happy Wednesday (Hump Day) 🙂

I wanted to tell you about the K-9’s nose and tails we now have out!! In case you haven’t seen them they are really cool!
Long Tails
Short Tails
The tail trait comes from breeding “Starter Coats” together or 1 starter with any other K-9.
Please note that this trait CAN be passed on.
Liver Nose
Liver Spotted Nose
Pale Nose
Black Spotted nose
The nose trait comes from breeding “Starter Coats” together or 1 starter with any other K-9
Please note that this trait CAN be passed on
Hope everyone has a great rest of the week and Good Luck getting these new K-9 traits!!
You can check out the pictures here

http://wiki2.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Other_K-9_Traits

 

This has to be the biggest issue we see with the horses, K9s and even the Birds, missing and can’t be found breedables.  It is very easy for us to get these back to you if you have the information we need to locate the missing breedable.

 

  1.  If you have the UUID of the missing item we will be able to locate it.
  2. If you do not have the UUID of the missing item we will need to know the name of it and provided every breedable you own is not named Amaretto Breedable Horse/K-9/Barnyard Bird we can locate it with the name.
  3. If you have not named your breedables, well first off shame on you! How would you feel if your parents let you wander through life named Baby Boy or Baby Girl? If you have not named them we can still locate it for you if you have the parent information.  It would be best if we had both parents but as long as you have the mother’s information it is still possible to locate them.  A side note on naming your breedables, please don’t name them all the same. If you use a name twice, give one of them a number also, or a sir name, Sr., Jr. III, etc.  If you leave the breedable named Amaretto Breedable Horse/K-9/Barnyard Bird then we have no way of knowing which one of them you are missing.
  4. We will also require your Transaction history if the missing breedable is one that you purchased.

 

I hope this helps everyone when filing a ticket to get there lost loved one returned to them!  Happy Breeding everyone!

Fun with the K-9 HUD

Let’s have some fun with our K-9. Did you know that while your K-9 is attached to your hud it gets a boost in happiness.

 

First let’s take a look at the hud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hud has lots of different buttons

 

 

Connect – This button lets you chose what K-9 you want to interact with

Disconnect – This button disconnects the current K-9 from the HUD

Follow – the K-9 will follow your avatar

Come – The K-9 will walk to your avatar and then sit near you

Stay – This will cause the K-9 to sit and stay in its current location

Get Ball – This button will send a ball to your objects folder for use with the Fetch button

Fetch – This button needs to be activated before you can throw the ball and have your K-9 go get it for you.

 

Your hud will tell you which K-9 is connected and what activity you are using with your K-9

 

Let’s get started!

 

First you need to wear your hud, the hud will attach itself to the upper left hand corner of your screen, then touch the K-9 you want to play with and choose HUD from the K-9s blue menu

 

Next touch the Connect button on the HUD . In local chat it will tell you which K-9 is connected.

 

Now you can choose which activity you want to play with your K-9

 

Lets play fetch with the ball

 

If you click get the ball, it will send a ball to your object file in your inventory…wear the ball, it will attach to your hand. The ball has different ranges that you can set to throw it, 20,40,60 or 100 meters. ..Now click the fetch button on your HUD

 

Go into the mouse look button at the bottom of you screen,aim where you want the ball to go and left click your mouse to throw the ball … Your K-9 will now fetch the ball and bring it back to you

 

You can also take a walk in the parks and have your K-9 follow you using the hud..you can stop and sit on a park bench, and use the stay button to have them sit at your feet while you rest.

 

Also you can walk your K-9 on a leash.So take your K-9s and have fun with them and enjoy a fun and relaxing afternoon.

 

Always remember when you are done playing with your K-9 to disconnect them from the hud and reset their home position near their food and water..

Are you all ready for another K-9 show ? Well get your K-9 ‘s ready cause we gonna have another one.
Amaretto would like to invite you to participate in our Second A.R.B.C. K-9 Kennel Show. There will be 3 categories:

1st Best in Show
2nd place Breeders Choice
3rd place Highest Traits
The K-9s will have to be over 7 days old and there will be no Enchanted K-9s in this show. Also only one entry per breeder please.
Date of this event will be:
May 28 @ 3pm Sl time.
If you would like to enter your k9 in our second  A.R.B.C. K-9 Kennel Show, please send a note card with all stats to Karrie Woyseck by May 25, 2012.
Thank you and see you all at the show!

Duplicate Horses and K-9s

I have seen quite a few people file tickets about duplicate horses/K9s. I would like to let everyone know why this happens and what you should do when it does!

 

This happens when there are two copies of a horse or K9 in world, this can happen due to lag, sim restarts, sim rollbacks, crashes, and even updating.

 

If you find a breedable in your inventory and you know that you already have it out, you can right click on the item in inventory, look in the description field and compare the numbers from that with your breedables number. If you set it out and you already have it out, both copies will duplicate.

 

When SL does a sim Rollback, it takes the sim back to a previous state. If you have purchased a horse/k-9 from someone, and the sim where you purchased the breedable from has a rollback, it can create a duplicate issue., maybe even someone else has come along and also purchased the same breedable. This is why we ask for transaction history. If this happens you can contact the seller for refund. Please don’t just assume they are selling duplicates on purpose. Talk to the seller. Things can be worked through.

 

So your horse or K9 is duplicated what do I do now??

 

First file a ticket, be sure to include as much information as possible. The uuid of the horse or K9 is the best piece is information you could provide, so whenever possible please be sure to put it inside the ticket.

 

Also, if you recently bought the horse or K9 please provide the full transaction record with date, time, region etc., for your purchase? This can be found on your dashboard on the Secondlife.com website under transaction history.

 

When the CSR looks up the horse/K9 on the server if you do not show as owner of the horse or K9 we can’t return it to you! This is for all of our customer’s protection we don’t want anyone to just give us a uuid and say the horse or K9 is theirs when it’s really not!

 

Once you have filed a ticket, you will be asked to send in all copies of the duplicated horse/K9. When sending folders to the csr, make sure your name and ticket id is on the folder!

 

Don’t send replies to tickets in IM or notecards, reply to your ticket in your ticket!

If you do the things I have talked about here your ticket will be answered quickly and it will be a smooth process for you and Amaretto CSR’s!!

Today I would like to introduce and welcome the new Group Moderators!

I know you have seen them in the groups with their names in bold 🙂 They will be joining Draco Carpaccio and Diamond Holiday helping out in all the chat groups!
Give a warm welcome to Anaconda Carter, Arion Christenson, Gator Soulstar, Marv Sideshow and Trinityskye Zarco as Moderators in all chat groups. Also welcome to Baby441 Feila and Lisabella Lane as a Moderators in the Multi-language group.Welcome to all the new Moderators!
So if you are in need of any help look in group for one of these people they will be glad to help you!

K-9 Update Version 1.4

**As always, update means new starter kennels as well**

***IMPORTANT NOTE***After Tuesday May 7, 2012 we will NO longer

provide support for K-9s that are NOT v1.4***

So please update your K-9s!!!!

Update v1.4 Fixes/Changes:

Fixes:

1. Fixed the sunrise and sunset kennel errors

2. Fixed Wolf sound when sleeping and when turned off

3. Fixed Hell Hound animations

Changes:

1. New lower prices on all K-9 products!!

2. New and improved K-9 HUD (new animations added and new look)

3. GPS now available for use from the K-9 HUD

4. Owner name added to set text

5. Custom field added to set text

6. UUID of K-9 is now shown in local with stats from menu options.

Also parents UUIDs are shown in local from parent menu option.

7. We have retired the following Non-Starter eyes:
Maroon with Gold Glitz
Violet with Gold Glitz

8. We have retired the following Non-Starter collars:
Classic Ivory
Classic Onyx
Classic Imperial
Classic Sky
Classic Iris
Classic Petal
Classic Hotrod
Classic Tangerine
Classic Summer
Classic Atomic
Classic Suede
Somethings you need to know about the updater:

1. It will not work if there is more than one updater out. It gives you

a message that there are 2 updaters out please remove one.

If you continue to try and update your K-9 It will give you another

error message and have you pick one updater up and reset the other.

(touch and wait 5 seconds to reset)

2. It will not update pregnant K-9s. The reason being the updater can

potentially abort the pregnancy. Waiting to update your pregnant K-9s

will not effect the K-9s functions, they will continue to eat, move,

animate etc. When they give birth to the kennel, then you can update

them. The kennel will be the old version and need to be updated when

birthed.

3. The updater will not work on sims with a high load. Dilation needs

to be above .65 and region fps must be above 25 for the updater to work.

You will get an error message that says the sim dilation is too low, we

have enclosed a sim monitor that will display these values for you. Just rez on your sim next to the updater.

 

Update Instructions:

Single Updater: Place the updater near the K-9 that isn’t updated and click the K-9 and click the update button. The K-9 will be updated and the settings will be the same as before the update process. ***DO NOT PICK UP K-9s OR THE UPDATER UNTIL IT HAS COMPLETED THE UPDATE PROCESS***

Bulk Updater: Place the bulk updater in the middle of your K-9 breeding area, click the updater and adjust the settings you want your K-9s to be set to after the update process, then click the update K-9s button on the updater menu. This updater has the ability to update all K-9s that are not v1.4 in an entire region. However, depending on sim performance it may only do the K-9s in a 96 meter radius. Do not remove the updater until it has completed updating all K-9s and the hover text above the updater reads FINISHED. ***DO NOT PICK UP K-9s OR THE UPDATER UNTIL IT HAS COMPLETED THE UPDATE PROCESS***

Updaters can also be found at all of the Amaretto store locations:

Having Happy K-9s

K-9 Hud:

When you use the hud you can command your K-9 to do the following:

Come

Stay

Fetch

Follow

Playing with your K-9 and the hud will make your K-9s happiness increase over a length of time!

So if you have a K-9 that is feeling a little blue you can use the hud to bring up their happiness so they will be ready to breed.

If you do not have a Amaretto K-9 hud you can get one by clicking on your K-9, then help, and get hud

 

*Wear the HUD – It will attach to your screen in the upper left corner

 

*Touch the K-9 you want to interact with and chose HUD from the Blue Menu

 

*Touch the Connect button on the HUD – It will confirm in local which K-9 is connected to the HUD

Now you can choose to what you want to play with your K-9

 

Avalon has made a K-9 hud video for a visual explanation on how easy it is to use!

http://amarettobreedables.com/videos/7/9/amaretto-k9-hud

 

 

The Amaretto Brand Chew Toy gives a 1% increase in happiness over time. One Amaretto Brand Chew Toy last 2 K-9s 2 weeks.

 

How to use Chew toy:

 

Rez the chew toy close to the K-9s you wish to increase the happiness. For the K-9s to use the Amaretto Brand Chew Toy it needs to be within their set range, just as the food and water is.

 

Click the Amaretto Brand Chew Toy to set options for Owner only, Group only, or All.

 

*Owner only: Will only be consumed by the owners K-9s.

*Group only: Will only be consumed by K-9s in the same group as the Amaretto Brand Chew Toy is set to.

*All: Any K-9 within range of the Amaretto Brand Chew Toy will be able to consume it.

 

Once the Amaretto Brand Chew Toy has been completely consumed it will disappear.

 

The Rawhide Lollipop will increase one of your K-9s happiness by 15% . This consumable can only be given once every 24 hours.

 

How to use Lollipop:

 

Rez lollipop next to the K-9 you wish to increase the happiness.

 

Click the K-9 and go to the consumables option on the menu.

 

Find Rawhide Lollipop from the options on the menu and click it.

 

Once the K-9s stats have been updated the Rawhide Lollipop will disappear.

 

4 Mega Woof Vitamins This wonderful little concoction is just what your K-9 wants to feel happy and ready to start producing kennels by raising energy, happiness, and fervor by 5% and decreasing hunger and thirst by 5% ensuring that your K-9 can stay up late with his favorite gal! Note that again this consumable can only be given once every 24 hours.

 

How to use Mega Wolf:

 

Rez Vitamins next to the K-9 you wish to increase the happiness, energy, and fervor of

 

Click the K-9 and go to the consumables option on the menu.

 

Find Mega Wolf from the options on the menu and click it.

 

Once the K-9s stats have been updated the Vitamins will disappear.

Happy Friday everyone!  I was watching my K-9s play in the yard today and it got me to thinking about how really cool the K-9 sim is.  So I picked up a few “good boys” and we all went to play at the playground built special just for the K-9s!!  It was so much fun; I would definitely recommend that everyone take at least one afternoon a week to just let everything else wait while you take time to go to the park and play!  While playing at the dog park it dawned on me that all of the Amaretto sims are so very beautiful and great places to go visit and enjoy spending time with your breedables, while doing something fun!  So if you haven’t visited them in a while, or even if you have, go again!! Check out Boomtown while walking through the beautiful little town, go over to the main sim and ride your horses threw the gorgeous fields, head on over to the K-9 sim to play in the dog park. You’ve only just gotten started! Now you have to head on over to the Barnyard Bird sim and walk around before heading over to the Amaretto Ranch University campus and checking out that beyond fabulous Amaretto museum! Now you can finish out the tour de’ Amaretto by going to the Haven sim, kicking back in the field and relaxing while thinking about all the work you could be doing back at the ranch!!

 

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amaretto%20Ranch%20Horses/71/132/23

 

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amaretto%20Ranch%20K9s/74/107/22

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amaretto%20Ranch%20Haven/118/53/24

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amaretto%20Ranch%20Boomtown/143/155/21

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amaretto%20Ranch%20University/133/129/21