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Virtual Kennel Club 4th Anniversary

Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | VKC News | No Comments

Have you all seen this already?

The Virtual Kennel Club is celebrating its Fourth Anniversary this weekend with parties and prize draws in the parks.

http://www.virtualkennelclub.com/latest-news/vkcanniversarycelebration

Congratulations Rico!

Bathing your VKC Dog

Friday, July 30th, 2010 | Readers' Dogs, VKC News | No Comments

If you haven’t seen seen or tried this yet, then it’s high time that you did! It’s not a Vavoom! product, this is the amazing LogSpark Dog Bath for VKC Dogs made by Blu,  Sandry and Solcar, my old friends from Turing Isle. The bath has separate bathing animations for each of the dog breeds and scripted “themes” so that you can change the look of it with the touch of a button. The sponge produces bubbles as you bathe the dogs and there is an amazing control that allows you to move your avatar around to get the best position to suit your size and shape. There is nothing that could even be described as similar to this product.  How many VKC trainers can you spot in this video?

For the best quality, click on the video and watch it on the youtube web site in HD.

Jack Russell Terriers

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 | VKC News | No Comments

Rico released the long awaited VKC™ Jack Russell Terriers today, aren’t they gorgeous?

They has a second bellyup pose, bellyup2 so you can teach an itch or scratch trick and he also has down2 and lick1 and lick2 poses that you can build into your tricks.  You can access the new poses with the pose command, for example:

jack pose down2

This the first dog that Enrico has brought us as the result of a VKC™ Favorite Breed Poll and voting in the poll has its rewards, two dozen voters received their Jack Russells for free. So make sure you vote next time. It doesn’t matter whether or not you vote for the winner, just vote!

Come and see them today at your favourite VKC™ Dog Park. Watch the Vavoom! News for new accessories next week.

Polar Bears!

Saturday, December 12th, 2009 | VKC News | No Comments

Rico has made a Limited Edition Virtual Kennel Club Polar Bear

They’re available now for purchase in the Dog Parks.

Portuguese Water Dog Videos

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | Readers' Dogs, VKC News | No Comments

I just noticed that Blu and Sandry from the Virtual Kennel Club Dog Park at Turing Isle have published two new videos of the Portuguese Water Dog.

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VKC Mutt Contest

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | VKC News | 1 Comment

This is the Notice that Enrico just sent to the VKC:

VKC Mutt Contest

(For a more complete story, please visit http://bit.ly/1wsNd6)

Do you have a favorite mixed-breed dog?  Would you like to see him in Second Life?

With some 13 pure-bred dogs already in the VKC Kennel, I decided to do something different for my next dog.  This time I will make a mixed-breed dog, a “mutt”, and I want your help picking him out.

I’m accepting nominations for the your favorite mutt until November 8th.  Then I will select the best nominations and set up signs with pictures of the candidate mutts in several VKC Dog Parks.  Anyone in SL can come and vote on their favorite mutt until Saturday, November 21st when I will announce the winning dog who got the most votes!

After I make the mutt, he will sell for a special low price (not being a pure-bred after all), and 25% of the price will go to dog-related charities of your choosing.

If you’d like a chance to see your favorite mutt in SL, send me pictures!  I need at least 5, minimum size of 1024×768.  Take them at the same time so the lighting conditions are the same, preferably outdoors.  Take these pictures:

1. close-up of your dog’s face looking directly at the camera.
2. the front of your dog from head to toe.
3. profile, from the side with your dog looking straight ahead, full body.
4. from above.
5. from behind.

I’d love to include your dog’s sounds too, so if you can, record your dog barking, sniffing, growling or whatever other sounds you want.  Send them along with the images.

You can send them to me in two ways:

By email:

• attach all the files to your email message
• put the name of your dog as the subject
• send the email to mutt.contest @[remove this]virtualkennelclub.com.

if necessary, you can send on image per email, just use the same subject.

In world:

• upload the images (and sounds if you have them)
• build a box and put them in the box
• make sure the box and each item have full permissions (copy, mod, trans)
• name the box the name of your dog
• transfer the box to the VKC bot-avatar, VKCService Runner.

(By sending images and sounds to me, you give me permission to use them and copy them for the purposes of promotion and making virtual dogs.)

So if you’d like to see your favorite mixed-breed dog walking with you in Second Life, send me those pictures!

~Enrico

Old English Sheepdog!

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | VKC News | 1 Comment

This is the latest release from the fabulous and talented Enrico Genosse  – The Virtual Kennel Club Old English Sheepdog!

Isn’t he beautiful?

He has some cute new poses too. The one in the photo above is called “lookright” you get him to do it by saying: henry pose lookright

Lookleft is, as you will already have guessed, the complimentary pose to lookright.

henry pose lookleft

He also has a play pose, like the German Shepherd does. henry pose play

There is a very special pose for when you are petting him, it’s called “hug”, you can get him to do it by saying

henry pose hug or he will do it automatically when you pet him. Solcar Amat made the wonderful petting animation again and look at how Henry leans over to me a little bit as I hug him.

He stands as I kneel down beside him,

But as I lean over to hug him, he turns and leans onto me too.