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 Check_Out_Faith!
 Faith has been recognized as the Worlds Most Amazing Dog! She was born without front legs, but that didnt stop her determined owners. As they trained her, Faith began to learn to hop on two legs. Soon, after rewarding her many times with peanut butter, she learned to walk, then run, all like a human! You have to see it to believe it!
  

User Interview!

Collar: Hello, and welcome to the interview. Today we have WoofMeowPal (LCS) who recalls her first reaction of Nintendogs. WMP, what inspired you to get the game in the first place?
 WMP:  Well, I've never had a dog, but I've always wanted one. I had heard about a new game boy or something with 2 screens, and you could touch one. When I heard about Nintendogs, I couldn't stop reading about it, and I decided I wanted a Nintendo DS with the game Nintendogs. So, my mom took me to Fry's at about 1:00 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving and I got the Teal Best Friends bundle.
 Collar: Nice answer! What was your reaction when you got your first dog?
 WMP: When I got my first dog, I was so excited to start playing the game. I liked it a lot, and I thought of my first dog as a real dog, and as my only dog. In fact, I still think of them that way.
 Collar: Lastly, what did you think about the game overall? Was it too real to be true, and does it replace a real puppy?
 WMP: Well, I think of it as sort of a real dog, even though they're just pixels, because they keep me company, make me happy, and they react to what you do as real dogs would. Like many people, I used to think this game was repetitive, but in a way, it's not, because the dogs react in lots of different ways depending on what you do. I give it a 9 out of 10.
 Collar: That was a very thought out response. Thanks for taking the time to do this interview!
 WMP: Thanks! And I enjoyed it, thank you for interviewing me!
 

Jayman321s Five Star Guides!
 Is your dog stubborn when it comes to agility? Wondering what youre doing wrong? Read this guide; maybe these questions will be answered!
 Welcome to another one of Jayman's Five Star Guides!

This one is all about Agility Training!

BEFORE THE GUIDE:

Agility Trails are all about your dog and being athletic. If your dog is just not made for Agility and can't do it no matter how hard you train it, then your dog should not enter in an Agility Trail. Agility can be really hard for your dog. I mean, from bar jumping to seesaws, to going in and out of polls. It can't be that easy. But it can. If you train your dog every day, your dog can be the 8 consecutive winner of the Championship Agility Trails! Your nintendog could be a star and be recognized by the other dog owners going on a walk. It can all happen, but only if you work hard, and do it right.

THE GUIDE:

To train your dog in Agility, walk your dog to the gym. The gym is always set up to how advanced and what current class you are in the contest. If you have never entered in an Agility Contest, it will be set up with two simple obstacles. Bars and tubes. To jump over the bar, tap the bar repetitively until your dog starts running towards it. It will then jump over it. If it doesn't, then try again. To crawl through the tube, tap the end of the tube where you want it to crawl in, and then guide it through the tube using the stylus.

THE OBJECT

To win an Agility Trail, you need to go through all the obstacles. If you look at the top screen, it will show a map of all of them, and it shows your dog. A number is marked by each of the obstacles. You need to go through them in the order of the numbers. The obstacle that you need to go through is always blinking on the map. That way, it is easier to find where you have to go. The orders of the obstacles that you need to go through are very close together, and not scattered all over the place, so you won't have to go on a wild goose chase finding them.
You need to go through ever obstacle in the shortest time possible, and trying not to mess up one. Messing them up can be very bad while in Championship.

THE OBSTICLES

As I just said, there are bars and tubes, but as you get further into more advanced classes in the contest, they get more obstacles. All together, there are the bars, tubes, double bars, teeter-totters, and stand up polls in which you run in and out of. To jump over the double bars, do the same thing as you did for the normal bars. You tap it repetitively with the stylus, until your dog jumps over it. To get across the teeter-totters, tap the beginning, and hold the stylus on it and drag it across the teeter-totter to make a pathway for your dog. When you get to the second half end, eventually the second end will fall down. Make sure that when it is falling down, you hold the stylus behind your dog on the first half, which will make him stop walking. If your dog flinches when the second half reaches the ground, it will jump off. You will just have to try again. To guide your dog trough the standing up polls, you guide your dog over to the first poll, and he will start to go really slow. Drag the stylus against your DS, and make a path way in and out of the bars. When your dog develops the natural feel of going in and out of the polls, he will do it automatically when you tap the first poll and then you keep tapping the polls further in front of you.

THE RIGHT DOGS

As you know, Agility all depends on how athletic your dog is. If it is a huge dog, its scores may not turn out as good as a small, quick on its feet dog. For Agility, I would definitely recommend Chihuahuas, Miniature Pinschers, Toy Poodles, Shiba Inus, and Huskies. Boxers and German Shepherds can be an Agility Master as well, but they are better off as high jumpers. Dogs like Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, may not do you very well.
But it all depends on how you train them and what their personality is. So if you are a fan of Labs, don't buy a different dog! If you want to train and work hard, you should go for it!

EXTRAS:

For more sources on Agility Trails, go to Nintendogs.com, buy the Nintendogs Trading Cards, or look at the Agility Trail Training book under Care on your Nintendogs game.
Oh and please, please, don't listen to any thing Archie says. He is one of the Agility hosts and he is pretty mean. Don't be alarmed if he calls your dog a duck, a old lady, or any thing like that, because then he is really a duck...he just doesn't know it.
Remember to keep practicing, even if your dog is a master! And if you go to long without playing the game, your dog may not be as good at the competition as before.

Let me know what you think of this guide!And if there is anything I should add in to it, PM me.
Guide by: Jayman321
 

 A Dog Story
By Rottylover
 The dog~
The sun was now right above him. Whiskers twitching with every sniff, he lifted his small nose to smell the air. There was nothing new; only the usual scents exhaust, food, and, of course, people were eminent. He involuntarily lingered on the second, and realized how hungry he really was. The city being no place for a young dog and his mother being taken many weeks before, the pup often went without food. Not many people cared whether or not he ate, and they often just pushed him out of their way, muttering about mangy mutts and flea-bitten nuisances. The last time he had eaten true food, not the bits of garbage on the city sidewalk, was last week, in the park, when a young girl fed him bits of a hotdog. The girl was also different for another reason. She had called him Toby. After shaking the already-fading memory out of his mind, the young pup continued walking down the sidewalk. Stopping after walking a block, he sniffed the air once again. Hotdogs, oh, how he craved hotdogs. He trotted quickly toward the hotdog stand.
 The girl~
She pulled on her socks and a pair of shoes. She checked the clock: quarter to noon. After standing on tiptoe to check the temperature, she also grabbed a jacket from the closet. Daddy, are you ready to go? she asked as she walked to the door with a small bag of peanuts, whistling to herself. As an eight-year-old growing up just a few blocks from the city park, she loved to feed the squirrels. Her father walked from the study, and they went out the door together. Do you think well see him again? She queried.
See who? Her father questioned.
The puppy.
Hes probably found a home by now, he replied, not adding the grim thought that if he hadnt, he probably wouldnt have survived this long. Besides, who knows what hes carrying? He could have fleas, or worms, or some nasty disease.
Oh, was all she said. She was quiet for the rest of the way as they walked together towards the park where she had first met Toby, as she like to call him.
 The hotdog stand~
Now the hotdog vendor, who got up early every morning to work the hotdog stand in front of the park, was an irritable man, with balding hair and a mouth that seemed to never break free of his seemingly permanent frown. He was angry, always angry. There were always teenagers to complain about, or the hot sun to make him grumble, or pigeons to chase away. Now as he stood there at the stand at about midday, he was in an especially short-tempered mood. A little girl was now at the front of the line.
Whatll you have? He asked gruffly.
Unshaken by his ill-tempered disposition, she replied sweetly, One hotdog please, or two, actually. Just in case.
Just like a child, cant even make up her mind, he muttered to himself. He took out two hotdogs, and looked pointedly at her, not bothering to ask verbally for the money.
She got the point. Heres the money, sir. Finally noticing quite the extent of his crankiness, she added quickly, Keep the change.
The small tip didnt make him much more cheerful, and as the pup jogged up to the stand, the vendor kicked him roughly to the side, where he tumbled into the young girl, who was just leaving the stand.
Toby! Daddy, look! Its Toby! The little girl cried. Cant we bring him home?
He probably has fleas. Hell spread them to the cat.
Oh, please, Daddy, please! She bent down to feed him one of the hotdogs. Look at him! He needs us!
After thinking about it for a few moments, he finally replied, He stays in the garage until we bring him to the vet to check for fleas.
Oh, thank you, Daddy, thank you! She ran to hug him. Come here, Toby! Youre mine now!
Hearing the familiar name that she had called him before, he scampered quickly into her arms.


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-- Edited by CollarGirl at 18:32, 2007-06-28

-- Edited by CollarGirl at 13:43, 2007-06-30

Triple post ZOMG:O

Sorry, but does anybody like it?:(

Good job! The only thing I don't like is that I wrote mine on Microsoft word, and when I copy+pasted it into the PM, every single apostrophe and quotation mark disappeared. D:

mlbest: thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Rottylover: yeah, I thought that might've been what happened...:)

Dogmaster: I know, she's so amazing! She gave me hope too, and I'm glad she gave some to you. That makes me feel good!:P