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Vavoom! News November 2009 – Three Things!

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | Vavoom! News | No Comments

Vavoom! News 22nd November 2009

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Dear Everyone,

Three items of news this month:

1. Hunt Item
2. Updates to *Active* Toys
3. Lost Toy Remover

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1. Hunt Item

I’m taking part in the Snowflake Gridwide Hunt and I’ve made a special Limited Edition Vavoom! Winter Bear for the occasion. He’s adorable and wearable! He lounges comfortably on your arm and when you touch him he rezzes a miniature version of himself for your dog to play with. That’s right, the miniature bear that he rezzes is a Vavoom! *Magic* Toy.

Here’s the photo from the box,  isn’t he adorable?

He is available from now until mid-January in the hunt item that is hidden in my store. (He may go on sale for a very short period in late January but this particular bear will be strictly a Limited Edition.) To get him for free, you will need to come and search for him at the Vavoom! Main Store on Turing Isle.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Solcar Amat for the carrying animation and to give a quick plug for his own Snowflake Hunt item which is concealed in his store.

Watch out for more Vavoom! Bears in the coming months.
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2. Updates to *Active* Toys

I had a wonderful suggestion recently from a long standing Vavoom! Customer who asked if there was a way to control the range that dogs come to play with the *Active* Toys. (Thank you Yak.) So there is an update available for your *Active* toys that allows you bring up a menu to fine tune the range. Better still you can even tell the toy not to be active so that your dog only plays with it when you say. The dog will still do all the *Active* toy things, rolling around growling playfully and squeaking the toy, but when he drops it, he will leave it alone until you tell him to play with it again (or until you make it *Active* again).

To activate the menu, tell your dog to drop the toy, click on the toy and hold the mouse button down for five seconds. The menu will then open in the top right corner of your screen as usual.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

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3.  Lost Toy Remover

(This is the one that I’ve been waiting to announce for ages!)

Does your dog have a habit of wandering off with a toy and later wandering back  without it? Over the years I’ve heard various reports of toys stuck in walls, lost in undergrowth, sunken in the mud in the bottom of the fish pond or laying on the sea bed.  This is useful little accessory that will help you tidy up Vavoom! Dog Toys that your beloved pet has lost.

Wear it on your screen or just rez it. Click it once and it sends a message to all the Vavoom! Toys in the region that you’re in and they disappear.

Free up prims at your home or clear up quickly and easily after you’ve been to a friend’s place or to the Dog Park.

Please Note
The Vavoom! Lost Toy Remover works with Vavoom! Toys purchased (or updated) on or after 22nd November 2009. It won’t work with older versions or with other creators’ toys. So come to the Main Store, update your existing toys and collect a Lost Toy Remover at the same time.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

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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:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/122/5/26

Did I say that it’s free?

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Thanks as always for shopping at Vavoom!

Chiva

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turing%20Isle/109/56/27

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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Cleo, EmmaLee and Nola

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Readers' Dogs | 1 Comment

Nola Gumbo, Cleo, EmmaLee Streeter trying out the Poser for Dogs at the Vavoom! Store