Amaretto Breedables Customer Connection

Happy Thursday! Hope everyone is having an amazing week!  This week we will continue our journey through the Amaretto alphabet by talking about one of the coolest things available in the Barnyard Birds.

E ……….. is for Exotic Birds!

Exotic Birds are Special/Rare Birds that will give a gradual boost to the Vivacity of birds within 10 meters over a period of time

Exotic Birds are very special birds that can be born at random from ANY bird breeding combination.

As an added twist the Exotic birds have the possibility of being found in the Starter packs!! Yes that means you could buy any of the starter packs at the stores and possibly have an Exotic bird in it!! That’s pretty cool!

When you breed an Exotic bird (whether it is with another Exotic Bird or any other bird) you do have an increased chance at receiving another random Exotic Bird!  The non-Exotic offspring of the Exotic Birds do NOT have an increased chance of producing Exotic Birds.

Have a look at these amazing birds below and until next week Happy breeding!!

The Egghead’s are NOT able to pass their breed or eyes.

The Rubber Chicken’s are NOT able to pass their breed.

The Robotic Birds are NOT able to pass their breed or eyes.

Hey everyone what a Wonderful Wednesday! I wanted to take a few moments to introduce this months crazed horses and K9s!!

From February 5, 2016 until March 5, 2016 you could breed any color Mystique horses together for the chance of getting one of the Crazed Mystique. No other qualifications necessary, just has to be 2 Mystique.
The Crazed Coat Mystique DOES have the ability to pass.

Look at this eye! The Rainbow Arcane! Lets add another option for all those rainbow projects!!!!

The Rainbow Arcane Rune Eye DOES have the ability to pass.
You can read all about the Crazes Mystiques here:
http://wiki.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Crazed_Coat_Spotted_Mystique
Where my K9 lovers at? Well I am loving this months crazed and I hope you are too! Take a look at these Crazed Mystique K-9S!!!!

From February 5, 2016 until March 5, 2016 you could breed any color Mystique K-9s together for the chance of getting one of the Crazed Coat Mystique. No other qualifications necessary, just has to be 2 Mystique.
The Crazed Coat Mystique DOES have the ability to pass.

This color and eye is adorable to boot!!!

The Rainbow Arcane Rune Eye DOES have the ability to pass.
The Rainbow Runes Collar DOES have the ability to pass.

You can read all about them here:
http://wiki2.amarettobreedables.com/index.php?title=Crazed_Coat_Mystique

Remember everyone you have an entire month to get these Crazed Coat Mystique
Horses and K-9s!!! Sorry Bird breeders you have to wait a few more days to see what yours will look like! Happy breeding everyone this is Ava over and out!!!

Happy Monday Amaretto Community!! It’s that time again to use my Customer Connection day to introduce you to each of the Amaretto Satellite Store locations! So today I am going to put my weekly focus on AMARETTO K-9 village ELITE! AMARETTO K-9 village ELITE is a quaint breedable market with a downtown feel. AMARETTO K-9 village ELITE has a Amaretto K-9 satellite location and is exclusive to Amaretto K-9 renters only for all you Amaretto K-9 needs!

Elaine Lectar is the owner of this amazing K-9 market!

AMARETTO K-9 village ELITE offers the following for your Amaretto K-9:
• EXCLUSIVE Direct Sale ShopBox in Elite Gallery.
• GENERAL Shop in exterior zone.
• PODIUM for your k-9 design project in exterior zone.
• Exclusive to AMARETTO K-9 renters Only.

get on down and check out this wonderful K-9 market!

So use this link http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Costa%20Iberia/224/34/21 and come on down to AMARETTO K-9 village ELITE to see all they have to offer!!

Happy Breeding!!

Hey guys hope you are all enjoying a lazy Saturday! Love is in the air and the time is almost upon us! That is why Amaretto wanted to celebrate Valentines day with some Wild Love Edition Animals!!

Introducing to you the 2016 Wild Loved Edition Animals!!!

Available for purchase today Feb 6, 2016 until Feb 20, 2016! You can purchase these at any Amaretto location. Here is a list of locations on our website!!!

http://amarettobreedables.com/pages/locations

Take a look at these horses!!!

2016 Wild Love Edition Leopard – Heart Eye: Snuggle Bunny
2016 Wild Love Edition Giraffe – Cherry Eye: Smoochiekins
2016 Wild Love Edition Leopard – Rose Eye: Love Muffin
2016 Wild Love Edition Giraffe – Lilac Eye: Sugar Plum

These come in two packs:

2016 Wild Love Edition – Sweetheart Pack
1 of each coat, Random Gender 2750L
2016 Wild Love Edition – Single Pack
Random Coat and Gender 750L

To get hidden  New Surprises you will have to breed Wild Love Edition Horses TOGETHER!!!

Woof Woof! We didn’t forget our K-9s!

2016 Wild Love Edition Leopard – Heart Eye: Snuggle Bunny Collar: Wild Love Heart
2016 Wild Love Edition Giraffe – Cherry Eye: Smoochiekins Collar: Wild Love Cherry
2016 Wild Love Edition Leopard – Rose Eye: Love Muffin Collar: Wild Love Rose
2016 Wild Love Edition Giraffe – Lilac Eye: Sugar Plum Collar: Wild Love Lilac
These come in two packs:
2016 Wild Love Edition – Sweetheart Pack
1 of each coat, Random Gender 1975L
2016 Wild Love Edition – Single Pack
Random Coat and Gender 550L

To get hidden Valentines Surprises you will have to breed Wild Love Edition K-9s TOGETHER!!!

Last but not least! The Barnyard Birds!

2016 Wild Love Edition Leopard – Heart Eye: Snuggle Bunny
2016 Wild Love Edition Giraffe – Cherry Eye: Smoochiekins
2016 Wild Love Edition Leopard – Rose Eye: Love Muffin
2016 Wild Love Edition Giraffe – Lilac Eye: Sugar Plum

These come in 3 different pack sizes:
2016 Wild Love Edition – Sweetheart Pack 1975L
2 Rooster 2 Hen
2016 Wild Love Edition – Romance Pack 1975L
2 Rooster 2 Hen
2016 Wild Love Edition – Single Pack 550L
Random Breed and Gender

To get hidden Special Surprises you will have to breed Wild Love Edition Barnyard Birdss TOGETHER!!!

We hope that you will love these Wild Love Edition Animals the way Amaretto loves their customers!!! Have a Wild Valentines day!!!

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

This week i had the pleasure of interviewing Leandra Kohnke, she is in the group so when you see her give her a big hello !!

Please tell the community a little about yourself. Where you are from and what brought you to Second Life?

I am a retired scientist of human genetics from Winnipeg Manitoba in Canada. I got into Second Life as my retirement neared and I decided I want to play more and to make connections with other scientists who are also playing in SL.

I am a Star Trek fan and one of my favorite Star Trek quotes is one Mr. Spock said:

“The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play”

How much simpler can it get to enjoy the simplicity of play than in Second Life?

Which Amaretto Breedables do you own?

Horses, chickens now.

How did you get started in breedables?

I started with the bunnies.

Do you own other breedables besides Amaretto?

I do PlantPets which are fun and undemanding.

What special projects are you working on right now with your Amaretto Horses?

Oh my! What and I not doing might be easier.

I came up with the first original special horse after the Vamp. The Woodland Elf is mine. I have had several special project horses over the years. My current and longest lasting special project is my Sun Horse with all orange and sun themed extras. This is as close I have to perfect thus far.

Coat: Red Walker
Eye: Sun and Moon
Mane: Long
Tail: Long
Coat Gleam Low
Hair Gleam Low
Coat Luster Low
Hair Luster Low
Coat Hue Orange
Hair Hue Orange
Coat Opal
Hair Opal
Sun Branding
Ear Size Scanty
Wild Hair: Amaretto 2nd Anniversary Horse
Wing: Pumpkin
Bridle Orange
Wing Opal
Horn Sunset
Saddle Orange

Every time I get close to being finished Amaretto comes out with a new trait or a better one. I don’t think I’ll ever finish it.

I am also trying to get the last 2/24 possible Zodiac coat/eye combinations. I need Cancer Pearl and Libra Sapphire so I am breeding Zodiac eye horses. A lot of them are Mystique siblings as well. I am also working on getting the rest of the Confection horses. I have two. I guess I will collect Dazzles after that.

I am also breeding Percheron sibs to try for an Albino Percheron. I have at least one of all the albino types except Percheron and Exmoor. Once I get a Percheron albino then I’ll try for an Exmoor albino. I have a pair of albino clydes, one double warmth and one double chill and they are also full sibs. Long story behind that pair but it was great fun.

I also like to collect bundles with traits of all possible coat and eye. I have every at least one bundle of every coat except for Brown and Grey, and Silver Dapple Saddlebred
Cream & Silver Icelino Glacier, and Spotted Exmoor Buff, Chestnut, Copper, Fawn. I have all eyes except Pumpkin Spice Latte, Mulled Cider, and Hot Buttered Rum. Well a few of the newer ones I don’t have yet. I still hunt for those old missing ones when I am going through bundles.

I also collect LEs and special horses. So I have at least one pet of all types of the charmed, LEs, Galaxy, Showhorses, Elementals, Haven horses, donkeys and mules. It is so much fun collecting them! I keep them near my race track at 1700m in Nerice. I can train horses and admire my lovelies at the same time. I just started doing it a few years back and I keep adding them as new ones come out. It’s grown into a lot of pets now but I love it. I guess I feed my inner hoarder in SL. My absolute favorites are the Galaxy set. Another special favorite is one time I accidentally bred sibs in my Sun Horse project and I got the loveliest orange albino I kept as a pet.

What special projects are you working on right now with your Amaretto K-9s?

None. I tried them but I kept accidentally letting them starve because they didn’t hold my interest. Its weird because of how much I love the horses. Silly me.

What special projects are you working on right now with your Amaretto Barnyard Birds?

I think the barnyard birds are the absolute best animated chicken in SL. I am breeding a selection of colors which I will turn into pets to run around in the sim I manage as part of the “decor” at the old fashioned windmill.

What is your favorite Amaretto Breedable ?

Horses, no question.

What are some other things that you enjoy doing in Second Life when you’re not taking care of your breedables?

I am co-owner of Breedable Bartering along with Kini Barbosa. Keeping on top of that can be time consuming. People take their horses and their barters very seriously!

I help out with Virtual Ability. They help bring people with a wide range of disabilities into Second Life, and provide them with a supporting environment once here.

I also was assisting a university course associated with Wayne State University that as held in SL at the graduate level. I did that for six years but we are taking a year off.

I also manage an estate on a whole sim in the Mainland called Nerice. I made a parkland with trails for riding horses around a lake with a year round Christmas Land on one corner and a lake in the centre. It’s open to the public so everyone is invited to visit me in Nerice.

I also do some amateur scripting and building.

Sometimes I just go riding in SL. I Love taking my Memorable Haven Horse I named Michelangelo riding int he night sky in SL.

I have included some pictures of Leandra special Amaretto Breedables . Thank you Leandra for letting me interview you for this weeks connection.

Until next week Happy Breeding !!!

Happy Thursday!  We are going to move back to the Amaretto Alphabet in my Spotlight this week.  This week we discover that “D” is one of the most sought after things in the Amaretto Alphabet!

D is for …. Dazzle!

One of my favorite sets of eyes from the start has been the Dazzle eyes.  These are beautiful all by themselves but of course Amaretto also added a special touch to these eyes with the Dazzle HeartShine and Dazzle StarShine eyes. You can see all these pretty eyes at these links:

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

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

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

Then of course Amaretto decided to add a whole new twist to these eyes on September 1, 2015 with the addition of the Dazzle horses!

Dazzle Horses can only come by breeding a male and a female with Dazzle eyes. (Dazzle, Dazzle HeartShine or Dazzle StarShine) They do not have to be the same Dazzle eyes.

The Dazzle Horses are not Limited Edition Horses.  They are best compared to the Albinos, you just need to breed 2 Dazzle eyes together for the Dazzle Horses and you need to breed 2 Full Siblings together for the Albinos.  So if you want to multi-task your breeding you could breed 2 Full Siblings with Dazzle eyes together and have a chance at getting either an Albino or a Dazzle Horse!

The Saddles that come with each awesome Dazzle Coat are specific to their coat and they do have the ability to pass.  The Dazzle coat you receive will be chosen at random and does NOT have the ability to pass.

However the Dazzle eye and the Dazzle Saddle DOES have the ability to pass!

Until next time, I wish you all a Dazzling Day and Happy Breeding!!

We have released the K-9 Fix Updater v2.2 at every K-9 store today Feb 1, 2016. Please remember to read the notecards enclosed before updating. This is a fix update ONLY, there are no new things coming from this update, it is just to fix issues with the previous update but it is still mandatory. I will post the info from the notecards below.

***IMPORTANT NOTE***MANDATORY UPDATE******IMPORTANT NOTE***MANDATORY UPDATE******
AFTER MONDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2016 WE WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR AMARETTO K-9S THAT ARE NOT V2.2***K-9S MUST BE UPDATED TO V2.2 TO FUNCTION PROPERLY! (See notecard **AMARETTO MANDATORY 2.2 UPDATE INFORMATION**K-9S included in updater box for more information)

Update v2.2 Fixes/Changes:

Fixes:

1. Fixed Heat issues.

Changes:

1. New mesh Updater prims!

Somethings you need to know about the updater:

**IF THE BULK UPDATER DOESN’T UPDATE ALL YOUR K-9S, RE-REZ THE K-9 AND TRY IT AGAIN, YOU MAY ALSO USE THE SINGLE UPDATER FOR K-9S THE BULK UPDATER DOES NOT UPDATE**

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. 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. 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***

Update v2.2 is MANDATORY. K-9S will no longer function properly if they are not updated to v2.2 by February 15, 2016. Below are some F.A.Q. regarding this MANDATORY update.

Q: What do you mean by “not function properly”?
A: ALL versions that are not v2.2 will no longer produce viable offspring. Meaning any kennel produced by all versions that are not v2.2 will have the text BAD_DATA_NO_PARENTS and will not birth.

Q: If I do not update my K-9s before the deadline and I get a kennel that says BAD_DATA_NO_PARENTS can I get that kennel fixed?
A: No. That kennel can not be fixed, that is why you must update your K-9s before the deadline of February 15, 2016.

Q: If I do not want to update my K-9s and I have to file a support ticket due to duplicate, lost or broken K-9s, will they come back to me at their original version?
A: No. All K-9s/kennels that go through our support system will return to you at the most current version and will not breed with older versions.
If you have any further questions you can contact one of our customer services representatives http://amarettobreedables.com/blogs/5/111/who-s-who-at-amaretto-revisited, or file a support ticket here http://support.amarettobreedables.com.

Hope everyone has an awesome week, and Happy Breeding!!