Category : K9 Information

Amaretto K-9 Hud

Happy Friday Everyone !! Hope everyone is having a good breeding day !

This week I decide to blog on the K-9 hud an how it works.

To get a K-9 HUD you can click on any of your Amaretto K-9s and that will bring up the main menu. On the menu you will see Help.

When you click help that you will get another menu that has a button on it labeled hud.

By clicking the hud button you will receive a K-9 hud sent directly to the objects folder in your inventory.

Go to objects folder and find the hud, right click it and go to wear. It will attach to the upper left hand side of your screen. You can adjust this if you wish.

What each button on the hud means :

Black bar along the top:
Name of K-9 connected to hud

Small Black “Hide” button; when clicked will hide your K-9 hud to the left of the screen

Large half circle: States what mode your K-9 is in Fetch.

Connect button: Looks like a plug with both ends together. This is to connect your K-9 to the hud.

Disconnect button: Looks like a plug with the ends not together. This is to disconnect your K-9 from the hud.

Green ball: This button, when clicked, will bring up a menu to get a ball, stick, newspaper or leash to play fetch and/or walk with your K-9

Fetch : This button is to play fetch with your K-9

Stay : This button is to make your K-9 stay put

Come : This button will call your K-9 to come to you

Follow : This button will make your K-9 follow you

GPS : This button can be used to set your K-9s settings
Animations (avatar petting a K-9):

This button, when clicked, will bring up a menu which has petting options as well as the walk animation.

To connect your K-9 to the hud, click the K-9 and then click the hud button on the menu then click the connect button on your HUD.

Make sure your K-9s movement is set to physical before connecting to the hud.

To disconnect your K-9 from the hud click the disconnect button
To play fetch, get a fetch item from the green ball button as described above (ball, stick or newspaper) and wear it from your inventory objects folder.

Click the fetch button on the hud and go into mouse look (bottom of your screen) and left click to throw the item.

Your K-9 will run to fetch and bring it back to you. To change the range on how far you throw the item, click the item in your hand and set the range from the menu given.

To make your K-9 stay put simply click the stay button and they will stay where they are and not follow you.

To make your K-9 come to you click the come button and they will come.

To make your K-9 follow you click the follow button and they will follow where you go.

The animations button will bring up a menu to pet your K-9 or to walk them.

To pet your K-9 choose one of the different “size” animations.

To walk your K-9, wear the leash (from the green ball button) and the K-9 will connect to the leash and you can walk them around on your sim.

So try using you K-9 hud an have some fun with your K-9.

Until next week Happy Breeding !!!

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Happy Thursday! Today I’m so very excited to shine my Spotlight directly where a spotlight was meant to shine….. on Elvis!!!

I asked the group to send me projects that they were working on and I got the surprise of my life when one of you messaged me and said you were working on an Elvis horse.  *Swoons* I was raised on the music of Elvis Presley and many of my best childhood memories include times with my family hearing Elvis music while listening to family members talk of their love for this Superstar.  Thankfully I have passed this love of Elvis and his music on to my own children and grandchildren.  Nothing has warmed my heart quite like listening to my little grandson try to warble his way through Hound Dog!

So when Angelwith Wingtips messaged me and said she was working on an Elvis horse I knew I had my next blog in the bag!  I’ve known Angel and her partner Brook since 2009 when they were both regulars at my daily auctions so I am pleased to share her special project with you all.

Her goal for the Elvis Horse is to put the following traits together:

Elvis Horse Stats

Coat: Black Piebald

Eye: Capricorn

Mane: Upright Long

Tail: Upright Long

Horn: Shadow

Wing: Blizzard or Gold

Saddle: White or black

Gold: Bridle

 

Of course I had to ask Angel what made her choose these particular traits for the Elvis horse and she had some pretty good reasons for each one.

Angel said she chose the Black Piebald because Elvis had black hair and this particular horses looks like it has sideburns.  His hair later in life was kind of tall so that’s why the Upright longs.  He was born on January 8th so his birth sign was Capricorn.  Then Angel chose the Gold to represent his jewelry and outfits and then the white and black looks good and stands for his outfits also.  This sounds like a beautiful project to me and I cannot wait to see all those wonderful traits compiled on one horse.  I may just have to give this project a try myself, how about you?

Remember, let me know what you’re working on and the Spotlight just might shine on you!!! Happy breeding everyone!!

 

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Amaretto K-9 Hud

Happy Halloween Everyone !! Hope everyone is having a good breeding day !

Today, since Dakota did her blog on horse hud thought I do one on K-9 hud an how it works.

To get a K-9 HUD you can click on any of your Amaretto K-9s and that will bring up the main menu. On the menu you will see Help, if you click that you will get another menu that has a button on it labeled  hud. By clicking the hud button you will receive a K-9 hud  sent directly to the objects folder in your inventory. Go to objects folder and find the hud, right click it and go to wear. It will attach to the upper left hand side of your screen. You can adjust this if you wish.

Black bar along the top: Name of K-9 connected to hud

Small Black “Hide” button; when clicked will hide your K-9 hud to the left of the screen

Large half circle: States what mode your K-9 is in Fetch.

Connect button: Looks like a plug with both ends together. This is to connect your K-9 to the hud.

Disconnect button: Looks like a plug with the ends not together. This is to disconnect your K-9 from the hud.

Green ball: This button, when clicked, will bring up a menu to get a ball, stick, newspaper or leash to play fetch and/or walk with your K-9

Fetch : This button is to play fetch with your K-9

Stay : This button is to make your K-9 stay put

Come : This button will call your K-9 to come to you

Follow : This button will make your K-9 follow you

GPS : This button can be used to set your K-9s settings
Animations (avatar petting a K-9): This button, when clicked, will bring up a menu which has petting options as well as the walk animation.

To connect your K-9 to the hud, click the K-9 and then click the hud button on the menu then click the connect button on your HUD. Make sure your K-9s movement is set to physical before connecting to the hud.

To disconnect your K-9 from the hud click the disconnect button

To play fetch, get a fetch item from the green ball button as described above (ball, stick or newspaper) and wear it from your inventory objects folder. Click the fetch button on the hud  and go into mouse look (bottom of your screen) and left click to throw the item. Your K-9 will run to fetch and bring it back to you. To change the range on how far you throw the item, click the item in your hand and set the range from the menu given.

To make your K-9 stay put simply click the stay button and they will stay where they are and not follow you.

To make your K-9 come to you click the come button and they will come.
To make your K-9 follow you click the follow button and they will follow where you go.

The animations button will bring up a menu to pet your K-9 or to walk them.
To pet your K-9 choose one of the different “size” animations.
To walk your K-9, wear the leash (from the green ball button) and the K-9 will connect to the leash and you can walk them around on your sim.

Until nest week Happy Breeding !!!

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Howdy breeders! Today I would like to cover the GPS. We have a GPS for each of our breedables. We have the Global Pony Settings barrel for horses, the Global Pup Settings hydrant for K9, and the Global Peck’n Sort silo for birds. These nifty devices were created to make life just a bit easier for breeders. The GPS turns possibly hundreds of clicks into a handful of clicks. The GPS is a FREE device that is given out at any Amaretto Horse, K-9, or Barnyard Bird Store.

Before we get into how these awesome devices work, it’s important to point out that the GPS will set all the horses, k9, or birds in a sim that are listed under the owner’s name. It’s important to remember this if you have special pens set up to manage special projects. Please also remember that there is a separate GPS for each of the three Amaretto Ranch Breedables.

When you get your Amaretto Global Pony Settings (GPS) from the Amaretto Store, you’ll open it to your inventory and find inside Instructions, Land Marks, TOS and the GPS itself. When you rezz your GPS and click on it, you will find the following Global Settings options

 

Set Range

This will allow you to set the range on your breedables. When you click this button you will put in local chat the range you wish your breedables to be set at.

Activate

Once you have made all the changes you would like to make to the settings of your breedables click Activate from the drop down menu and all your settings will be activated. If your text setting is left in the on position, you will probably notice the text on your K-9s will go off and then come back on.

Home Set

With this option you can keep the Home setting where it was or tell the GPS to reset the home on all rezzed breedables to their current location.

Text Off

This allows you to set the text to off.

Sounds On

This allows you to set the sounds to on.

Sounds Off

This allows you to set the sounds to off.

Anims On

This allows you to set the animations to on.

Anims Off

This allows you to set the animations to off.

Text On

This allows you to set the text to on.

Move Physic

This allows you to set the movement of your breedables to physical. When set to physical your breedable will not walk through other objects.

Move Phant

This allows you to set the movement of your breedables to phantom. When set to phantom your breedable will walk through other objects.

Move Off

This allows you to set the movement of your breedables to off.

HORSE GPS

Horse GPS

K9 GPS

K9 GPS

BIRD GPS

Bird GPS

Happy breeding!

Until next time…..

 

Lets Pair up!

Hello everyone its a lazy Sunday! Hope you all are having a great weekend and are ready to kick off an awesome week!

I thought I would take some time and talk about breeding and pairing!
Many use pairing when you want 2 special specific breedables to mate!

Let’s go over the basic requirements of pairing your Amaretto Breedable.

Both breedables have to be the same version!
Please make sure your breedables are of breeding age!

Here are the steps on how to pair your breedable:
Click on your breedable you want to pair.
Click on Breeding in the drop down Menu
Click on Form Pairing or Companion.
Then you will type the name of the horse/K-9/Barnyard Bird in local that you wish to pair with.

Then you get a drop down menu asking you to confirm or cancel the pairing you would choose confirm

(Example)
In local chat it will say

Mike is now paired with Katie
Now your breedables are paired and will breed with each other when the time is right.

Remember once they breed pairing is automatically broken so if you wish the same 2 to breed again be sure to re-pair them.

 

 

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This is Ava over and out! Happy Pairing everyone!!!

AMOC K9 Show!!

Did you know the Amaretto Market Owner’s Coalition has monthly K9 shows? They are a super fun way to show off your amazing K9. They are on the second Saturday of every month! A lot of the K9 breeders come down to this event so it is a fun and exciting way to get to know some of your fellow K9 breeders! There is a fun obstacle course you and your K9 go through with twists and turns and ramps…you know… all those fun things! You are timed while going through the obstacle course and those competitors with the top three times… win! I have included some pictures of the fun K9 show today. Be sure to keep your eyes open and check the calendar for the next AMOC K9 show!!

 

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So be sure to watch the monthly calendars for all of AMOC’s fun and exciting events! They are always a blast and a great way to get to know all of your fellow breeders!!

Happy breeding! Until next time….

 

Happy Thursday Everyone!  We’ve had a lot of excitement in the past few weeks with the new update, new starters, new Haven Horses and the new Fall Limited Editions.  Today I wanted to shine my spotlight on a couple of new things that I keep seeing people ask about in the main Amaretto group.  These things came directly from the creativity of the Amaretto Community!

Back in June we held the Amaretto Country Fair and at the Country Fair we had 12 different raffles that the community was able to enter for a chance to win a special prize while all the proceeds went directly to Relay for Life.  Well I keep seeing people wondering where a couple of really cool new traits came from and I am happy to tell you that they were won by lucky members of the community at these raffles.

On one of the raffle boards you had the chance to win this: **Create your own Horse Eye** This eye will be all the winners design and come on the horse of your choice. The winner of this was stefane Klaber and he created the beautiful Sun & Moon eye that you see in the picture below.  This is a gorgeous design and one of the “must have” eyes on my list of must haves! Congratulations again to stefane for supporting RFL and for creating such a marvelous eye to share with the community!  Way to go stefane the Sun and Moon eye is awesome!

On another of the raffle boards you had the chance to win this: **Create your own Horse Branding** This branding will be all the winners design and come on the horse of your choice. The winner of this raffle was JonSnow2012 Resident and he created the beautiful Rainbow Star Branding that you see in the picture below.  This beautiful branding is the first color branding and if you haven’t seen it yet check out the picture below as it is just a gorgeous as it sounds!  Congratulations again to JonSnow for supporting RFL and for creating such a beautiful branding to share with the community!  Way to go JonSnow the Rainbow Star Branding is awesome!

There were plenty of other winners at the Amaretto Country Fair and you can see the list of winners at this link:

http://amarettobreedables.com/connection/?p=7554

 

So the next time you think you want to be able to create your own trait for the Amaretto Horses, K-9s or Birds remember you never know some day you may get the chance to do just that!

 

Until next time, Happy Breeding!

 

 

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Hey guys its a terrific Tuesday! What does that mean? Well its my connection day and I wanted to share something with all of you guys the hard work ive been doing on the wiki!

Lets start with the new coats and where you can check them out at:

Belgian Draft
http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Belgian_Draft

Spotted Shetland
http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Spotted_Shetland

Piebald
http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Piebald

Abaco Barb
http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Abaco_Barb

All of these coats are pretty cool and remember everyone who got a new starter 5.0 has the chance to get one!! All of the above coat do have the ability to pass on!

Now lets talk confection eyes! Yes thats right there were several new ones added to the list for those of you trying to make your own confection horse!

Double Chocolate Cake
Cookies N Cream
Chocolate Eclair
Gummy Bear

You can check them all out here!!!!

http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Confection_Eyes

Now there were also 3 new brandings that came out in 5.0!

Crown Branding
Apple Branding
8 Ball Branding

I can’t wait to see what you guys do with those trend setters with these new beandings!

Be sure to take a closer look here:

8 Ball Branding http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Branding

I know that most everyone has seen the newness that came from the 5.0 update, but did you see the new Cobra albino eye?

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Amaretto Albinos have become somewhat famous in the Amaretto Community. To have such a prized horse born is very exciting. Plus they come with a very special eye that will be sought after by many.
Albinos come with very special Albino eyes that can be passed on to their offspring.
The Albinos come randomly from full siblings. Full siblings are siblings that come from the exact same mother and father. Siblings do not have to have the same traits they only need to be full sibling.
The Albino coat does NOT pass.
However, breeding an Albino with another Albino does slightly increase your chance for another Albino.

Well hope you guys like all the newness on the wiki this is Ava over and out! Happy breeding everyone!

Danbull’s in the Spotlight

 

Happy Thursday Everyone!  It’s that time of the week again, time for me to shine my spotlight!  This week I want to shine that spotlight brightly on the newest K-9 Twist coats that I am absolutely obsessed with, the Danbull!  These little K-9’s could not be any cuter if they tried!  However, I am going to try to make them as cute as possible by adding pretty matching collars and eyes and noses and paw polish …. The works!

You still have the ability to get one of these gorgeous Danbull’s by breeding any color of English Bull Terrier with any color of Great Dane until October 5, 2014.  There are 4 different color Danbull’s that you could be lucky enough to receive, Black, Brindle, Fawn or Harlequin and they come with the very pretty Here Comes Fall eye and collar.  I have included pictures of the Black and Harlequin Danbull’s below but if you wish to see them all you can click the link below to see pictures of all different colors.  To say I want to collect them all is an understatement … I have to have them all!

So be sure to watch for next month’s Twist to be announced and then get your K-9s ready to breed for the Twist each month because as you can see from the Danbull’s you just never know how darn cute the new Twist are going to be!!

Until next time Happy Breeding!!

 

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Black Danbull

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Kennel Cash!!!

First off kennel Cash is what you get when you send your K-9 or kennel to Puppy Paradise.

Here is how you send your K-9 or kennel to Puppy Paradise.

Just click on any K-9/Kennel that you own, click on settings, then on Puppy Paradise and then confirm sending your K-9/Kennel to Puppy Paradise. Before you do that though you will see the point value of that K-9/ Kennel and a little notice that once a K-9 has been sent to Puppy Paradise it cannot be reversed.
***** WARNING******
ONCE A K-9 IS SENT TO PUPPY PARADISE IT IS UNRECOVERABLE
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You have to accept to send a K-9/Kennel to Puppy Paradise, therefore it cannot be reversed. So make very sure this is something you really want to do. Even if it’s done by mistake it cannot be undone. So please be careful!

Below is a chart that shows the amount of Kennel cash you get for the ages of the K-9\

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

You also get kennel cash for the following traits on each K-9 or Kennel
non-starter coats 100
non-starter eyes 100
Sheen (high or low) 100
Sheen Null 100
Radiance (high or low) 100
Radiance Null 100
non-starter ear 100
non-starter size 100
non-starter collar 100
Tint (Sunrise or Sunset) 100
Sunrise Null or Sunset Null 100
non-starter tail 100
non-starter nose 100
Gloom 100
Paw Polish 100

All of the Amaretto K-9 Stores have a Puppy Paradise Vendor, except the main sore as it is located next to the haven sim.

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The haven sim is an awesome sim, it has the Haven Vendors for all Amaretto breedables you can go there using this SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amaretto%20Ranch%20Haven/118/53/23

There are lots of useful items that you can purchase with your Kennel Cash! Below is a list of the current items available

Paradise Puppy Dalmatian 250,000

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Fu K-9s 250,000

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Amaretto Brand K-9 Pet Kibble & Water/Four Pack (Box) 16,000
Amaretto Brand K-9 Mega Woof Vitamins Single (Box) 10,000
Amaretto Brand K-9 Puppy Love Pill Single (Box) 8,000
Amaretto Brand K-9 Vaccination Single (Box) 6,000
Amaretto Brand K-9 Zing (K-9 Cola) Single (Box) 4,000
Amaretto Brand K-9 Rawhide Lollipop Single (Box) 4,000
Amaretto Brand K-9 Treats Five (Box) 4,000

If you wish to purchase an item, all you do is click on the board or box and you will receive a drop down menu asking you to confirm your purchase and the point cost. Once you confirm this purchase your order will be sent to you in world!!

Again please remember:Before you send that K-9/Kennel to Puppy Paradise, make very sure this is something you really want to do. Even if it’s done by mistake it cannot be undone.

So until next time, have a great week and Happy Breeding!!