About

The Golden Retriever is one of the most popular breeds for a good reason! The golden dog is absolutely beautiful and has a terrific temperament. This intelligent and versatile dog performs equally well as a family pet, a service dog, a hunting companion, an agility champion, or many other roles.

The VKC Golden Retriever has its own special animations and, of course, all of the intelligence and companionship that can only be provided by a VKC Dog.

Instincts

• Basic Positions: stand, sit, down, bang, beg, bellyup, shake, rest
• Basic Activities: come, getbone, howl, itch, pounce, roll, rove, sniff, speak, wag, wander
• Other Activities: go, run, on, greet, get (These require you to name a destination or an object; for example, "Fido go Sandry" or "Fido run redball" or "Fido greet Bichon")
• Owner-only commands: heel, follow (Follow also requires you to name a destination)
• Special command: fetch (Requires a redball toy, free at VKC Dog Parks)

These instincts are not described in any detail because it will be much more fun for you and your dog to try them out together.

Special Commands

The name Turk is used here as an example. You should use your dog's actual name or the general name, dogs, to command your dog.

touch (this requires the name of an object you want the dog to touch)

Say: turk touch ball

It is important to mention that touch is designed to allow the dog to touch small objects and intended to be incorporated into your tricks, for example ringing the bell. It will not work very well if you tell your dog to touch an avatar or a large object like a house or tree.

Special Poses

When you pet this dog the avatar stands beside the dog facing in the same direction, then kneels down beside the dog. Then the avatar puts his arm the dog as the dog leans toward the avatar. Finally, the avatar pats the dog on his chest. It is such a sweet animation.

The following poses add liveliness and charm to tricks you teach your dog. They must be used with the command pose. For example, to get the dog to bow down in the play pose, you would say, "Turk pose play."

• beg2, beg3 (slight variations of the beg pose)
• bellyup2, bellyup3 (similar to bellyup but dog holds his head and tail in different positions)
• down2, down3, down4, down5, down6, down7, down8 (slight variations of the down position)
• drop (pose to drop a toy or other object from his mouth)
• lean (sits and leans to the left)
• play, play2 (slight variations of the play bow)
• rise, leap, land (this is a trio of poses that are part of the instinct pounce)
• sit2, sit3 (slight variations of the sit pose)
• stand2, stand3, stand4, stand5 (slight variations of the stand pose)
• tummy (legs stretched out while on the ground)

Color Options

The collar can be changed using the tint and color commands.

• tint-1 (restores the collar to its original white color)
• tint-2 (makes the collar invisible)

Prim Count

28 prims

Release Date

September 2011