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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

Vavoom! News October 2009 – Celebration!

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Dear Everyone,

I am celebrating and I want to share it with you all. This is a note that I received recently from Enrico Genosse, the Creator of the VKC Dogs and the Founder of the Virtual Kennel Club:

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“Are you looking for something new for your VKC Dogs? Without hesitation I recommend Vavoom! Chiva Vavoom has a line of the most fun and satisfying VKC Dog Accessories you’ll find in SL.

Chiva writes very sophisticated scripts that interact automatically and intelligently with my dogs in ways I never imagined, and the quality of her products is unsurpassed. My two favorites are the Active Toys (you can watch the dogs play together) and her Multi-Dog Beds where the dogs snuggle up together.

What sets Vavoom! products apart are how natural and realistic the dogs act with them. Vavoom! products and services provide a complete and professional compliment to my Virtual Kennel Club Dogs. You won’t see anything like them!

~Enrico Genosse

Creator of the VKC Dogs”

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Wow! Isn’t that great? What a vote of confidence.

So, how does this affect you? Well, there are a couple of things you could do:

1. Come on down to my Main Store and pick up the new toy from the “Loyalty Vendor”. As an existing Vavoom! Customer, all you have to do is touch the vendor and it will give you the toy free of charge. It’s a little thank you from me to all the customers like yourselves that have remained loyal to me through thick and thin!
   There is also a new Guess & Win game that I just installed on the deck next to the lucky chair, come and try your hand at this too.
2. Next time someone says something silly to you like: “Those Vavoom! Toys are bad for the dogs” tell them not to be so silly and show them this note.

Lost Products

Don’t forget that anything you buy at the Vavoom! Store can be reclaimed for free if you lose it. If you need to reclaim something, you do it at the Update Stations.

Did I say that it’s free?

Want to Unsubscribe from the in-world notification service?

I am working on a system that will allow you to unsubscribe from these notices, but it is going to be a while before it is ready. In the meantime, if you no longer want to receive these notices, please send me a Notecard with your name and the word unsubscribe. (You can just put this as the name of the Notecard, if you like. No need to write anything inside.)

If you request to unsubscribe from this service, please be SURE that this is what you want to do. It means that you will not hear when there are updates to the Vavoom! Accessories even if those updates are vital when the dogs are changed such that the accessories MUST be changed to continue to work with the dogs. (This is of course a rare occurrence, but it is not entirely unheard of.)

Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva