Introduction
Objects of everyday use can be utilized to make interesting and useful games for your pets. Whether it is your hat, or an empty tin can or even a pebble or your worn out clothes, each one of them can be developed to make interesting and useful games for your pets.

Hat Trick Surprise

What you need to do to play this game with your pets is to have at least four to five hats. The ideal place to play this game would be inside the house, preferably in the balcony or on the terrace or anywhere in your house where you have a large room with lots of space to run and jump around.

The reason that this game would be better played indoors is because you need a smooth surface for your hats to move in to action. Take at least five hats. Attach a small rubber ball beneath each one of them. The hats that you use to play this game should be made of some very light material which at the same time is quite resilient and strong.

Take a thick strong coir rope or any other fiber that is comfortable for your hands and at the same time is strong. Make an aperture in each one of the hats. Pass the rope through it so that all the hats are now connected. There should be a small food packet hidden beneath one of the hats. The game would be best played with four or five dogs or cats.

To play this game, you need to stand in one corner of the room and then place the five hats in a row -which any way they will form since they are connected to one another by strings.

Now, you can keep the hats in a row running across the floor. When the string is pulled at either end, the hats will automatically start bouncing. The game ends when your pet has correctly been able to halt the moving hat containing food. That may be a rather tough job!

Tin clanker wheel!
To play this game you will need a lot of tins - at least 10 -12 tins. The tins could be linked one to another in a circular ring. You need to fill each of the tins with small pebbles - 10 12 in number.

It is best to play this game with your pets in the garden. Of course, you must make sure that your neighbours will not mind. There's going to be a lot of clinking and clanking sounds that can be cacophonically loud.

Somewhat like a merry go round - the tins cans should keep rotating at a slightly faster speed than the ones which your pets can keep track of. One of the tins should have a food snack hidden.

The game is all about your pet or pets being clever enough to identify the tin with the snack and also being able to stop the rotation of the tin wheel.

This game can be quite exciting for your pets, especially because of the circular movement and the clanking sounds.

Pebble Maze

To play this game, your pets will need to be really alert and attentive. It involves a certain degree of visual recognition in being able to select matching pieces. This game would be best played if your pet happens to be a large breed dog. Of course, you can try playing this game with your pet, irrespective of whether your pet is a dog, cat, parrot or pigeon. On the contrary, you may find your pet parrot or pigeon enjoying this game a little more than your dog or cat. Of course, if you are pet birds are going to play this game make sure that the pebbles are all brightly coloured.

What you need to do in order to play the game is to select a lot of pebbles. Then, you need to have two pairs of identical looking pebbles. What you need to make sure is that the pebbles that you choose are not too large or too small or too rough. The surface should be smooth. Pebbles as those found on the banks of the rivers are ideal to play this game.

Another factor that you must take care to bear in mind is that the size of the pebbles should suit your pet's ability to lift while at the same time not swallowing it. You need to be really careful about that. Alternatively, instead of pebbles, you can also use, differently coloured rubber balls of different sizes.

Once you have collected a set of at least twenty pebble pairs, you could then take each of the pebble pairs and give them a distinct identity.

For one pebble pair, may be you could dip in a solution of soup and let it dry. Another pair of pebbles, you could dip them with a little bit of gravy. Similarly, the third pair of pebbles, you could coat them in sugar syrup. The main focus would be to give each pair of pebbles a distinct identity and appearance so that your pet can immediately and correctly match one member of the pebble pair with another.

To play the game, you could probably draw about 12 large rectangular squares. Now, in each one of the squares you must place a pebble. The other set of pebbles should be with you.

To start playing the game, you need to throw each pebble in to the air and to a distance of at least 4 - 5 metres. The game would be played by your pet correctly being able to locate the pebble, bringing it back and placing it in the correct square, based on its appearance and flavour.

Coat Hanger disguise
To play this game, what would you would need is a lot of really worn out and frayed coats which you can discard. You will need to have at least 4 or 5 sets of old clothes. You can also get some mannequins or make one yourself using some cotton and old clothes.

The game is played by dressing your mannequin in one of your old clothes. You can then selectively place four or five of the mannequins in different corners of your house. This game is best played when you are away and your pet is alone in the house.