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The Dogfather: Giving Us Paws for Thought (Article for PURE Magazine)

The DogFather: Giving Us Paws for Thought

By Traci Nubalo

One of the great joys of my years in Second Life has been the owning and training of my artificial intelligence dog, a gorgeous black lab named Bella. When we first got her I had no idea what an wonderful and fun…

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Added by Patritzia Rossini on March 16, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments

3 Personality Types in a Virtual World

After a few years in a virtual world, and meeting thousands of residents, I grew to realize that more than half of virtual world residents are homebound in one way or another.

Disabilities come in many forms. I am physically disabled, and leave home rarely. Many share my situation.

There…

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Added by Vitolo Rossini on September 24, 2010 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

VKC White German Shepherd Training at Dogland

At 6:12 P.M. on Wednesday, Feb 3rd, VKC surprised the public with a release of the White German Shepherd.

By 7:30 PM , training at Dogland started as members showed up for their free VKC White German Shepherd T-Shirts. 300 Shirts were distributed, and are still available at Dogland Park .

After talk, and gifts were done, we had a great mass training for 30 of these fine looking dogs at one time, where all 30 dogs were trained to do 27… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on February 4, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Dogland Dogs©

Confidential sources indicated to us that there will be a scripting regulation soon enforced for makers of virtual dogs that have continuously running scripts. In October 2009, Dogland Enterprises began experimenting with scripts that were well within the soon to be imposed limits. We ar very excited to say, that we will soon be releasing a virtual dog with Artificial Intelligence, that will be able to learn, and interact with his environment, without… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on January 23, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Pawaii sold- Dogland Welcomes D&D Dogs

Keeping up 3 dog parks in SL has been a chore. We have decided to sell the region of Pawaii, to

simplify the day to day responsibility of being available to dog lovers.

Dogland now will add to it's growing collection of dogs available, the entire line of D&D dogs.

These are the original SL dog, and will be available, along side of our selection of relocated, fully trained VKC dogs, and other dogs and pets from different… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on January 8, 2010 at 5:39pm — No Comments

VKC Mutt Release

On December 19th the VKC Mutt was released. Within minutes of the release, Dogland Park in Rhoda had dozens of Mutts running all around. Members of the various VKC Dog Owner's groups rushed over to collect free supplies and t-shirts, as all Mutts received training, with a full array of tricks designed for them.

This release coincided with a grand "Mutt Hunt", where statues of a Mutt were hidden all around the park, to be counted. The winning… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on December 20, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

virtualdogtalk another Dogland/Virtual Dog Owner Link

Dog owners & fans of Dogland can chat live here, as well as view Utube vids, Dogland Photos, and lot's more! http://www.virtualdogtalk.org

Added by Vitolo Rossini on November 26, 2009 at 9:33am — No Comments

New Dogland Website

Check out the Dogland Website. It is about our dog park!
http://virtualdogtalk.yolasite.com/

Added by Vitolo Rossini on November 24, 2009 at 9:01pm — No Comments

The New Improved Dogland Park

Even with no clinic, Dogland Park improves. Without the restrictions and limits placed on Dogland by Enrico Genosse, the park has become more of what the VKC Dog Owners Open Chat Group wanted. There are always fully trained VKC and D&D dogs available for relocation at great low costs. We also now no longer must cater to the wishes of others, concerning telling truth about certain vendors products that are bad for our SL dogs. Dogland support team can now be perfectly honest with all about… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on November 21, 2009 at 10:31am — No Comments

Fear Abatement Through Systematic Desensitization Using 2nd Life

In SL I own Dogland Dog Park, and I work with owners of Virtual Dogs. I just finished a project with a psychologist I have become associated with. The project was designed to systematically desensitize 13 subjects to their RL fear of dogs. All 13 became virtual dog owners, in SL. The project lasted 6 months, and had great success. out of the 13, 11 reported losing their fear of Canines. 7 out of the 13 became dog owners in real life. The project was so successful, I am being sent visitors with… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on September 7, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

SUCCESS BEGETS SUCCESS

After a prolonged coma, and years of rehabilitation, I came to Second Life, to look into a possible "window to the world". I was disabled, and had a poor self image, after a lifetime career in Martial Arts and Dog Training. I learned something in Second Life, that I will share. I now can boast a successful and confident real life.

I help People in SL to learn a lesson about what success is, with Virtual Dogs. I own the most popular dog park in the virtual world. At Dogland Park in Rhoda I… Continue

Added by Vitolo Rossini on May 31, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment