Activity suggestions needed for annual pet day/church

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:44:23 -0700 Robin <robin4joy RemoveThis @yahoo.com> whittled these words:
> We have an annual event where one day a year, congregants who want to
> participate bring their pets to the park, whether it be a rabbit, cat,
> dog, rat, etc. All appropriate pets are caged. There's a little
> service which blesses the animals. I'm new to this church and have only
> been to one event in the past. I've been asked to help plan some
> activities which might be interesting, but other than going around and
> meeting everyone's pet, I'm drawing a blank. I've thought about
> everyone introducing their pet to the group, to tell a short story how
> they came to own their pet, any special care needs to pet has, a funny
> story related to the pet.

"Owners who look like their pet" contest.
Put an action on slips of paper - see if they can get their pet to do it.
e.g Back up exactly three steps
Spin to the right
Spin to the left
Turn right for two steps, then left for two steps
Nothing very complicated or requiring specific training - the trick is
that anything "extra" is Bsssst you're out. (You need to set a time in
which the "exactly" is finished and the pet can do something else - one
second, two second, five second ... whatever) Funny thing is some trained
dogs fail this because they are used to sitting/downing etc in certain
positions or upon stopping etc. And it can be done even by a hampster in
a cage.

Drawing contest - match the drawing to the pet - whichever drawing gets
the most correct guesses wins (which might be kind of obvious if there is
one unique pet - but hey it's all in fun)

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