Sylvaen Tamaskans

01/01/2025

Lexie (Sylvaen Fairytale) on a walk before her flight to the Netherlands yesterday 🇳🇱

She really enjoyed hanging out in our pile of man-made snow ❄️🐺

01/01/2025

To all of our Fans, Friends, and Sylvaen Family all around the world: Happy New Year! 🥳

May every sunrise in 2025 bring you hope and every sunset bring you peace 💕

27/12/2024

Wishing a very happy holidays to all our friends and fans, with lots of kisses and cuddles to all Sylvaen Tamaskans around the world 🥰🎄💖🐺

22/12/2024

Happy 7th Birthday to our “Winter Solstice” litter (Nero X Nissa) 🥰🐺💖🥳🎁

21/12/2024

Lexie (Sylvaen Fairytale) basking in the golden Winter Solstice sunlight... in 10 days she will be going to live at her new home in the Netherlands

12/12/2024

Happy 5th birthday to our outcross stud dog, Snow ❄️
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Happy 2nd birthday to our outcross dogs, Dusk & Dawn 🌅 🐺

12/12/2024

12/12/2024

Good news! Bennie (Sylvaen Lore) has made it to Sweden… 🥳

Unfortunately, he was held up for 4 hours (!) at the airport in Denmark because the Danish authorities were under the impression that Bennie was a pure wolf (subject to CITES)…not a wolfdog or Czechoslovakian Vlcak or Saarloos Wolfshond, but a genuine bonafide 100% wolf (wild caught or captive bred?) 😅

Thankfully, after several hours of further discussions and inspections, they agreed that he wasn’t a wolf and cleared him to go home. Phew! It just goes to show how “wolf-like” the Tamaskan Dog can be perceived, despite their soft, gentle and family-friendly nature. 🙈

11/12/2024

Bennie (Sylvaen Lore) is 15 weeks old today 🥳

He’s all ready for his trans-EU flight to his new home in Sweden 🇸🇪🥰💖

10/12/2024

Today was a very interesting, exciting, and adventurous day for Bennie (Sylvaen Lore)… ☺️

Firstly, this morning he had a nice warm bath, which he really enjoyed, with plenty of puppy shampoo so he was fresh and clean for his Big Day Out. 🥳

Next, he dried off on our bed, which was great fun (lots of rampaging around)… and then we drove with him to do some shopping at Bauhaus (similar to Home Depot) where he met a lot of people and had a great time. He was the Goodest Boy and he really enjoyed the experience and being driven around in the shopping cart (videos incoming!) 💖

Finally, we went to the Government Veterinarian in Zaprešić for his health inspection and to prepare his TRACES documents that are required for EU Commercial Movement. 🇪🇺

Tomorrow Bennie will be 15 weeks old and he will be heading to the airport for the pre-flight check-in before flying to his new home in Sweden. 🇸🇪

It’ll be a big adventure for him, but I’m sure he will be very happy with his new family. 🥰

07/12/2024

Happy 2nd Birthday to our “Undergrowth” litter (Snow X Sable) 🥰🐺💖🥳

06/12/2024

Happy 1st Birthday to our “Evergreen” litter (Asgard X Layla) 🥰🐺💖

03/12/2024

🎉 Facebook recognised me as a consistent reels creator this week!

Meanwhile… during the same timeframe, Facebook’s new “automated technology” (AI) system has gone haywire. 😱

The new META AI system automatically flags content that it deems to have violated Facebook’s “Community Standards”.

In particular, Facebook does not allow content pertaining to Animal Sales. However, the bigger issue is that, if you actually read the smallprint rules of the Community Standards, under the section regarding Animal Sales: such content is not permitted EXCEPT if it is posted on behalf of a legitimate retail business, brick-and-mortar entity, legitimate website (etc) which includes registered, licensed breeders.

So, it seems the new Facebook AI “technology” was only “trained” to read/interpret the basic rules, and not the full smallprint / exceptions to the rules! Moreover, the AI system has the authority to pass judgment (and act upon it) by removing content that it deems to be “against the rules” and implementing account restrictions on pages that “break” the rules (even if no rules have actually been broken!)

Obviously, this is an absolute nightmare! 🤦‍♀️

Even better, there is an option to appeal the decision by “requesting a review” which is conducted by the same automated AI system that flagged the offending content in the first place! The “review” process entails selecting one of the multiple choice options, which are completely irrelevant to the issue at hand (such gems include “it was a mistake” or “I think it should be allowed” or “I posted it as a joke”… without any option to choose “I am a legitimate business” or “the content is permitted and the AI system made a mistake” etc).

As a result, the content stayed down and my page (and personal account) were then hit with multiple account restrictions, including: not allowed to participate in groups or calls for 24 hours, de-monetisation, reduced exposure, not allowed to invite new followers to like my page for 1 year! etc)… 🙈

Thousands of other legitimate (licensed/registered) breeders have faced the same problems thanks to Meta’s new AI technology system, and the best part is that there is no way to resolve it as there is no way to contact an actual human who can address these issues.

The only provided option was to “appeal to the Oversight Board” which I did, but it will take several weeks to determine IF the Oversight Board will even accept my case, let alone take steps to rectify it.

In the meantime, there was the option to appeal to an EU “out-of-court dispute settlement agency” which I also did, but so far I haven’t heard anything back from them.

It is incredibly frustrating and many legitimate, registered breeders have been unfairly and wrongly targeted by this stupid new “automated technology” AI system, which hasn’t even been trained to read the actual rules… and now we have been hit with erroneous account restrictions as a result and there is no proper oversight or judicial process that involves real human interaction to resolve it (just more roundabout AI nonsense, talking in circles with copy/paste automated responses).

It was recommended (by the AI system) to post future sales content without mentioning “sales” along with a “disclaimer” (citing business license information) but the damage has already been done since existing content has been removed and the account restrictions remain in place.

I can only hope that the Oversight Board will step in or that the “out-of-court dispute settlement agency” will provide some resolution but, even so, it will take time and nothing might come of it. The whole process is incredibly time-consuming and frustrating, because legitimate content is automatically flagged and repercussions are instantly implemented without any real review or appeal process.

I’ve also paid hundreds of euros in advertising costs to Facebook over the years, so it is really a slap in the face and the only thing the AI bot could suggest was that I should pay an additional monthly sum for a Meta Verified Business account, with a hefty monthly fee starting at 17 EUR per month per account, all the way up to 550 EUR per month per account, just for the privilege to be able to file a complaint with a human worker, rather than an AI bot. 🤦‍♀️

What a time to be alive… the future is now, and it’s s**t. Complaints about AI artwork were just the start, now AI is responsible for enforcing rules that it hasn’t even read or understood properly, and what will be next? AI Police? AI Justice System? AI hospitals? Skynet… Blade Runner… it’s a Brave New World alright and you’ll have to be really brave for what’s coming next. It’s almost like we should have been paying more attention to all those dystopian novels and films, rather than using them as a guideline… but here we are. So it goes.

If you got this far and this post was informative or helpful for you, please feel free to share it so we can hopefully spread some awareness about this issue. Thanks for reading, and have a nice day! ☺️

02/12/2024

Lexie (Sylvaen Fairytale) - RESERVED (Netherlands)

02/12/2024

Happy 3rd Birthday to our “Luck” litter (Snow X Nissa 2021) and Happy 2nd Birthday to our “Croatian Seasons” litter (Asgard X Zelda 2022) 🥰🐺💖🥳