Category : K9 Information

Hungry Horses and K-9’s

Your Horses and/or K-9’s will eat once every hour. If food is not present their hunger and thirst will rise until it reaches 100% at which time they will get sick, this will take 3 days. A Vaccination can be used to Heal your Horses and K-9’s or they will eat their way out of sickness in approximately 3 days.

 

Breeder Food is for Horses or K-9’s you wish to breed once they reach 7 days old.

Pet Food is to be used when you do not wish to breed your Horse or K-9’s. If you decide to breed your Horse or K-9 after feeding it Pet Food, it will take 7 days on Breeder Food for the effects of the Pet Food to wear off. If changing from pet to breedable or breedable to pet, remember to set your Horses or K-9’s to that type of food.

 

1.Rez the food/water within your Horse or K-9’s set range. (a Horse or K-9′s default range is 5 meters)

2.Click the food/water to change options and see remaining %. Options include Owner only, Group only, and All.

Owner only: Will only be consumed by the owners Horses or K-9’s.

Group only: Will only be consumed by Horses or K-9’s in the same group as the food/water is set to.

All: Any Horse or K-9 within range of the food/water will be able to consume it.

Once the food/water has been completely consumed it will disappear.

If you are having issues with your Horse or K-9 not eating please try the following tricks before filing a ticket.

1. Re-rez fixes 99% of the issues.

2. If the land is set to a group, are the K-9’s and food set to that group?

3. If the land isn’t set to a group, are the Horse or K-9 and food set to the same group as each other?

4. Check to see if the Horse or K-9 is set to the type of food out (more stats)

5. Re-set home position.

6. Sometimes giving them a Horsey Snack or K-9 Treat will help them start to eat so you may also want to try this. Remember your Horses and K-9’s only eat once every 43 minutes so you may not notice a change immediately, be patient it takes 3 days for a K-9 to reach 100% hunger.

 

****REMEMBER TO RESET HOME POSITION IF YOU EDIT MOVE YOUR HORSE OR K-9

****IT IS BEST TO RE-REZ YOUR HORSE OR K-9 NEXT TO THE FOOD INSTEAD OF EDITING IT OVER**

Puppy Paradise Vendors Are Here !!

Puppy Paradise

Quick instructions on how to gain Kennel Cash and how to use Puppy Paradise.

 

How to Gain Points By Sending Your K-9 to Puppy Paradise: Simply click your K-9, click settings, click Puppy Paradise, then click yes. The number of Kennel Cash you received from the K-9 is posted in local chat.

Kennels may be sent to Puppy Paradise without birthing.

 

**WARNING** ONCE A K-9 IS SENT TO PUPPY PARADISE IT IS UNRECOVERABLE

 

How to Use your Kennel Cash: Simply go to the any of our store locations and find the Puppy Paradise Vendor, Click the start button on the bottom right of the vendor. Your current amount of Kennel Cash will be displayed in local chat. After clicking the Start button and reviewing your Kennel Cash balance you have 60 seconds of reserved time to make a selection from the vendor. Once you have made your selection you will need to agree to spending that many points on that item. If you agree you will then receive your item from the vendor and the Kennel Cash will be deducted from your Puppy Paradise account. To make another purchase simply do it again.

The Puppy Paradise Kennel Cash Reward system will Reward you for your K-9s in the following way:

* Age:

* 0-10= 100 Kennel Cash

* 11-20=200 Kennel Cash

* 21-30=300 Kennel Cash

* 31-40=400 Kennel Cash

* 41-50=500 Kennel Cash

* 51-60=600 Kennel Cash

* 61-70=700 Kennel Cash

* 71-80=800 Kennel Cash

* 81-90=900 Kennel Cash

* 91-100=1000 Kennel Cash

* 101-110=1100 Kennel Cash

* 111-119=1200 Kennel Cash

* 120-125=1300 Kennel Cash

* 126 and older(Retired K-9s): 1400 Kennel Cash

* In addition to the above Kennel Cash you will also be rewarded the following for the traits on each K-9 sent to Puppy Paradise :

* non-starter eyes: +100 Kennel Cash

* Sheen (high or low): +100 Kennel Cash

* Radiance (high or low): +100 Kennel Cash

* non-starter ear: +100 Kennel Cash

* non-starter size: +100 Kennel Cash

* non-starter collar: +100 Kennel Cash

 

ALL ITEMS ARE NO TRANSFER

 

Here we have the costs in Kennel Cash for the items Currently Available from the vendor (all items are subject to change without notice including prices and availability)

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Pet Kibble & Water/Four Pack (Box) 16000

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Mega Woof Vitamins Single (Box) 10000

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Puppy Love Pill Single (Box) 8000

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Vaccination Single (Box) 6000

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Zing (K-9 Cola) Single (Box) 4000

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Rawhide Lollipop Single (Box) 4000

* Amaretto Brand K-9 Treats Five (Box) 4000

The Puppy Paradise Program is covered under our Terms of Use Agreement just as all other Amaretto Ranch Breedables LLC. products, please refer to the website to read the Terms of Use Agreement http://amarettobreedables.com

Who’s ya daddy?

Who’s ya Daddy?

This week I’m going to briefly talk about the importance of keeping track of parents of bundles/kennels. I’ve done a number of tickets this week where sadly I was unable to return broken bundles/kennels. So its a good topic to touch on…

Sometimes perhaps you might see in the description line of the bundle/kennel something like this:

:Bundle key nonexistent in database111125:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:197.39.22:0:0:0:0:V1.0:0:0

So you log on to the support site and file a ticket to have us fix the issue. One of the first things an Amaretto staff person is going to ask is:

Hello can you please provide the parental information for the Horse(s)/Bundle(s) such as UUID or name?

This is because through one or both of the parents we can find the necessary information in order to fix the issue and send back the bundle/kennel in question.

Its important that as soon as you see there is a problem with a bundle/kennel that you take down the parent information. This way you have it on hand when you’re asked for it. It will avoid the “I’m sorry I’m unable to further assist you”.

If your not the owner of the parents then you can always ask the person that sold you the bundle/kennel for the parent information.

Two things I’d like to STRESS big time is

1) Always name your breedables as this helps us track down some information if your unable to provide a UUID

and lastly

2) I can’t stress enough how important it is to know “Who’s ya Daddy” on your bundles/kennels.

Happy Thursday Everyone! 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.

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!!

Until Next Time….

Rawhide Lollipop
The one time use Rawhide Lollipop will increase one
 of your K-9’s happiness by 15%.

 

1.Open boxed Rawhide Lollipop and rez next to the K-9
you wish to increase the happiness.
2.Click the K-9 and go to the consumables option
 on the menu.
3.Find Rawhide Lollipop from the options on the menu
and click it.

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

Happiness is KEY to Fervor/Heat

I have listened in group chat and have seen some tickets lately that have been about fervor not rising. Your horses/K-9’s fervor will only rise if your horse/k-9 is awake and above 75% happiness. Now there are many ways to increase the happiness of your breedable.

Lets start with Horses: Riding is one of the ways you can increase the happiness just ride your horse some if he or she seems to be unhappy and not gaining happiness ( they have to be age 7 though before you can ride them).

Another way you can raise the happiness is with salt licks, rezzing out a salt lick with your food will make your horses happier. This stat booster gives a 1% increase in happiness over time. One Salt Lick last 2 horses 2 weeks.

Also you have two other consumables at your disposal to help raise the happiness level some.

The first consumable, sugar cubes, when used give your horse a 15% increase to the happiness though you can only give this consumable to them once in a 24 hour period.

The second consumable that effects happiness also effects all the other stats of the horse and that’s the Amaretto Cocktail! This wonderful little concoction is just what your horse wants to feel happy and ready to start producing bundles by raising energy,happiness, and fervor by 5% and decreasing hunger and thirst by 5% ensuring that your horse can stay up late with his favorite mare! Note that again this consumable can only be given once every 24 hours.

Lets talk K-9’s. You can increase the happiness of you K-9 by using your hud and playing with your K-9. Always remember that your K-9 will not start to gain fervor until they are 7.

Another way you can raise the happiness is with a Chew Toy, rezzing out a chew toy with your food will make your K-9’s happier. This stat booster gives a 1% increase in happiness over time. One Amaretto Brand Chew Toy last 2 K-9’s 2 weeks.

Also you have two other consumables at your disposal to help raise the happiness level of your K-9 some.

The first consumable, Rawhide Lollipop, when used gives your K-9 a 15% increase to the happiness though you can only give this consumable to them once in a 24 hour period.

The second consumable that effects happiness also effects all the other stats of the K-9 and that’s the 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.

Happiness does naturally go down while the horse/K-9 is sleeping but will come back up while its awake. Sometimes for whatever reason you may have a stubborn horse/K-9 that doesn’t want to get happy or its fervor go up once its happy ( fervor can only rise once its age 7 ) if this happens just submit a ticket and send that horse/K-9 on in so we can give it a checkup ( re-rezzing sometimes also fixes this ).

I hope this has helped you with why your horses/K-9’s don’t seem to be increasing in fervor at times.

Starving K9’s

I have seen a few people sending in tickets about their k9’s not eating and in most cases when I go visit their sim in world I find this is happening in user error.

Currently when you buy kibble it is set to group only you will have to make sure that your k9 and your kibble are set to the same group.

If you don’t want to do this you can change the setting of your food to owner only or all.

To change the settings on your kibble you click on the food, and from the menu you chose the option you want to use. Owner Only, Group Only, or All.

If you are a Phoenix user there is a option in your second life preferences that will make this very easy to do.
Edit > Preferences> Phoenix > Misc > Always rez objects under the land group if possible (make sure this is checked)

If you do this every time you rez things out and you are a member of the land owner group they will be set to that group!

Another thing I have seen is that people have pet kibble and the k9 is set to breedable kibble.

Remember guys
1. Re-rez fixes 99% of the issues.
2. If the land is set to a group, are the K9 and food set to that
group?
3. If the land isn’t set to a group, are the k9 and food set to
the same group as each other?
4. Check to see if the k9 is set to the type of food out (more
stats)
5. Re-set home position.

If none of this works please file a ticket @ http://support.amarettobreedables.com/index.php

Zing K-9 Cola

Does it seem like sometimes your K-9s tend to get tired at just the
wrong moment?? Well no worries, just give them a refreshing Zing K-9
Cola and it will boost their energy by 10%!!!

This one time use Zing K-9 Cola will increase one of your K-9’s
energy by 10%. 

1.Open boxed Zing K-9 Cola and rez next to the K-9 you
wish to increase the energy.
2.Click the K-9 and go to the consumables option on the menu.
 
3.Find Zing K-9 Cola from the options on the menu and click it.
 
Once the K-9’s stats have been updated the Zing K-9 Cola
bottle will disappear.

Enchanted K9’s!

Hey guys! Well its monday agian, sorry for the late nite post 🙁
Better late than never??

Well i wasn’t sure if everyone got a chance to see the enchanted k9s that have popped up on the grid!

So with the owners permissions of course I wanted to share the pics with everyone!

Remember enchanted k9s are random and can be born from any K9 its kinda like winning the lottery! Congrats to those of you on the grid that have a enchanted K9! And tyvm for letting me use your pics !

Well until next time!
Happy breeding!

K-9 Hud

Hello everyone today I want to cover how to play fetch with your K-9. First you have to attach the HUD (if you do not have a HUD you can click on the K-9 and then help and Get HUD the K-9 will give you a HUD) just wear it and you’re ready to start.

To start first you have to connect the K-9 and select the HUD button ( the movement must be set to physical before this or it won’t work ) then you click on the connect button on your HUD and the K-9 is now connected and ready to play.

Next click on Get Ball and a ball thrower will be given to you from the hud. Wear it and you will notice that the ball is in your hand then press Fetch on the hud.

Next go into mouse look (the letter M or zoom all the way in until you are looking through your avatars eyes).

Now throw your ball away from you by aiming and left clicking (just click on a mac) and the K-9 will attempt to retrieve it 🙂

Once the K-9 returns with the ball you can throw it again 🙂

If for some reason the HUD doesn’t work detach it and reattach it. If this still doesn’t work get a fresh HUD from any of your K-9’s

I hope this helps people have fun with their K-9’s 🙂