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Help Files
The K9s
- Introduction & Tour
- Name, age, breed & bloodlines
- Fertility & Breeding*
- Condition, Mood, Energy & Grooming
- Earnings, Competition Level & W/P/S
- Stats
- Skills
- Training
- Marketing your dog
- About your dog & Abilities learned
- Death of a dog
- Other tools
- About the Breeds
Click on the area you wish to read about:
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Naming the dog: When your dog has no name, its name will be "unnamed", and give you a form field option to
name the dog on the dog's page. Names must be unique, meaning there cant be other dogs named the same.
Parents: Underneath your dogs name displays its parents. By clicking on their name you can view their parents.
If the name says "unknown" then it is a 'foundation' dog, and one of the first of its kind. Foundation dogs
are awarded to sponsor players.
Breed & Gender Under the parents name, displays what breed the dog is, and its gender. It can be Male, Female
or neutered. To view more about its breed, click the breed icon on your dog and you will se a pop-up summerizing the breed.
Read more on breeds...
Age Here you get an easy to read display on the dog's age. A dog ages one week per turn. Sometimes
you may just see a dog listed in how many weeks old it is (like in events), this is because of the length an
age description can get.
Bloodlines This link will bring you to the dog's family tree.
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Adding an image to your dog:
This option is available for you to customize your dog a bit more. You can add in your own image link here.
Type the full URL of the link to the picture in the form box. Please note that VHR does not provide image hosting.
You must find a place elsewhere to host your image, then add the link there. Try a google on:Free image hosting
(just be sure to read the fine print on the website you choose!).
For me to add in this picture of my dog Aysha, On internet explorer I right-click the image, then select properties.
I would copy/paste the link from the browser pop-up's Address (URL) which is http://www.virtualpups.com/help/dogimage.jpg
in to the form field to add in this image.
PS. This is a picture of my(Nefertete) special little dog in real life :)
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Overall Condition
This is the physical health of your dog. The greener the better. Things like neglect and exhausting can lower it.
If your dog suffers an injury, its health will improve week by week through the turns.
Energy
This is the energy of your dog. It uses energy for training menu activities, and regains it over turn(s).
Becareful about getting the energy too low, you can exhaust it, causing it health problems and a slower energy
regain. The amount of energy it uses is determined by your dog's natural endurence. The more stars it has, the better
it will recoup and least it uses.
Mood
All dogs need play. You will notice that your dogs mood changes when taking a turn or training. To
increase its mood more in to the green, play with your dog! If the dog's mood gets too low, it will
become too depressed to train.
Grooming
Most dogs need a brushing or bathing here and there. Some breeds require a lot more grooming than others.
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Total Earnings
This is the amount your dog has won totally in events.
Competition Level
Your dog gains competition level by competing in events. It is awarded score when it competes...
The amount of score it is awarded is based on how well it did vs. how many dogs. So placing first place in
a full event of 30, would give you a lot more score (and fame points) for your dog, than placing 5th out of 7 dogs.
Here is the list of levels:
Junior: Under 300
Novice: 299 - 1000
Regional: 999-5000
National: 4999-15000
International: 14999 and up
# of events W/P/S
This is how many events your dog has entered. The "W" stands for win, the "P" stands for Place, or second place,
and the "S" stands for show, or third place. It is only displayed for informational purposes and to see top dogs.
Number of Owners
This is how many owners your dog has had in its lifetime. Each time it changes owners, its loyalty is lost, the amount
depends on its adaptation.
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The skills are important for you if your interested in competing or having good puppys. Your dog can achieve
only so many skills (around 280 total) in its lifetime, so choose where you want to specialize your dog carefully.
Discipline Skill
Discipline skills are important for all events, especially if you want to show your dog, in anything. When your dog gets
trained in more disciplines, then more training options become available. For information on what training
options come up, see the training section.
Show Skill
If you want your dog to excell in events such as Conformation or Showmanship, this is an important skill.
Sport Skill
If you want your dog to excell in events such as Canine Disc, Flyball, Racing, Agility or Hunting this is an important skill.
Working Skill
If you want your dog to excell in events such as Weight Pulling, Tracking, Mushing, Schutzhund, herding or Hunting this is an important skill.
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All stats are determined by 3 things. Most of the influence is based on its breed and parents natural
stats, secondly and slightly, its determined by its parents trained amount, (the number). The number
represents what you have achieved in your dog through training excercizes. This is what events are judged on
so all breeds have 'a shot' at winning, some may be tougher than others. Dogs are born slightly
less than their natural potential. The stars represent an experts rating of the dog's potential. The more stars,
the more potential it has in that area. Certain stats, like hyperness and agression, can be good or bad, depending on what you
want your dog to do. The amount it gains and the starting level of the number, is depending on these stars. All dogs
are different or unique, one four star dog may be better than another in a particular area. 100ish is the max amount
a dog can achieve in an area.
Stats themselves determine many many things... so this is important...read on!
Height
This is the height of your dog, or expected height when it fully matures in centemeters
Color
There are hundreds of possible colors... They are fun but do not effect the way your dog performs.
When a litter of puppys is born, there is an 80% chance it will achieve one of its parents colors.
There is a 20% chance that one or more of the puppys will get a color specific to its breed. This allows
some fun for the serious breeders to try and capture the colors they want! To look up possible colors for a specific
breed, check The Breeds Section .
Build
This is the weight of your dog in kilograms, or expected weight when it fully matures. A heavy build dog would obviously be stronger...
Group
This is the competition group of your dog, its classification. We based our grouping of breeds on AKC standards and
other resources.
Friendly
This is how friendly your dog is, a dog that is not too friendly might just bite a judge...
Agression
This is how aggressive your dog is. The higher the number and more stars, the more aggressive.
Sometimes, when very competitive, agression can be a good thing... for certain events. However, its important
that they dont bite the sheep in a herding trial if you know what I mean :)
Adaptability
Adaptability is important when your dog finds a new home, or enters in an event. A dog that has a low number,
or not too adaptive, may freak out at new surroundings and new owners.
Loyalty
Loyalty is important, the higher the number, the more loyal. A dog that is too loyal and aggressive however,
may become too defensive.
Courage
This is basically your dog's confidence. A Big great dane that hides from the chihuahua is not going to compete well.
It is important for most event types, if not all.
Hyper
The higher the number the more hyper it is, the more stars the more likely it becomes real hyper. A good thing
in many events such as agility, a bad thing in an obedience class.
Strength
This is how strong your dog is, it will determine how high it can jump or pull a sled...
Intellegence
This is how smart your dog is, it will learn more if it is more smart. Also important in events as it is for training.
Endurance
Endurance, or stamina, decides how long your dog can run for, or train for. It will recover energy faster if
it has a lot of endurance.
Speed
Last but probably not least... Speed. Speed is also the dogs agility. It is important for, lets say, racing :)
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Your dog starts out with some initial training options... but dont worry, as it learns more
you will get more. Things it has mastered will go in to the Learned activities drop down menu.
So if you dont find your activity in the list, check there. Below is a full list of training types
and when they come in to effect, and what they are usefull for.
| Command/Activity | Qualification | Energy Cost | Fun Cost | Groom Cost |
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