Dog Musical chairs

Arrange one less chair than you have players.
Set a boundary 3 feet outside the row of chairs. If your chairs are in a circle or a square, draw a second circle or square 3 feet outside the circle of chairs. If the chairs are in a straight row, alternating facing opposite directions, draw the line 3 feet in front of each side of the row.

When the music starts, everyone tells their dog to heel and begin by walking in a clockwise direction, with the dogs on the outside. When the music stops, the owners must get their dogs to lie down, then, try to find an available chair to sit in.

If a dog pops up, the owner has to give up his chair, go to the dog, and have him down again. No butts are allowed in chairs unless the dogs, which belong to them, have their elbows on the ground! This helps make a chair available for someone slower, but managed to get his or her dog to lie down and stay.

When everyone has a chair except one person, and no dogs are breaking the down-stay, do one of 3 things:
1: The person without a chair is "OUT", one chair is removed, and the music and begins again.
2: The person without a chair tries to GET a chair by distracting the other dogs. If any of them are not trained well enough to remain staying. If a dog falls for this, and breaks the stay, the person can jump into that dog's person's empty chair. This goes on for a few minutes, and the game leader starts the music again. The standing person is out and one chair is removed. Owners are not allowed to use specific command words, like "come" or "sit" or "Okay!" They are also not allowed to use the dog's name to distract, they cannot touch the dog, and they must not pull on the dog's collar to try to get him up.
3: The owner without a chair tries to get one by distracting other dogs .If a dog falls for the act, and breaks the stay, the person can jump in that dog's person's vacant chair. This goes on for a few minutes, when the game leader starts the music again, and the standing person is out and one chair is removed. In this version, owners ARE allowed to use specific command words, like "come" or "sit" or "Okay!" They are also allowed to use the dog's name to distract, and they can pull gently on the dog’s collar to trick him into getting up.

This goes on until there is only one chair left, and two sets of owners and dogs. The last ones out are usually pretty hard to get to break a stay, so it becomes more of a test of good reflexes and lightening fast downs, Tic-Tac-Toe: Draw out a large tic-tac-toe board shape on the floor. Use rope or spray paint if you are playing on the grass. Divide owners up into two teams. One team is X's and one is the O's. X's are first to go so they have an advantage.
They are the SITS. O's will be doing DOWNS. The first team's leader decides where to put the X, and sends one of his players out to that spot first. Then the O team leader decides where to put his team member, and they go out and place their pet in a down. Players then continue to fill the squares with X's and O's until finally one team gets three in a row, or it’s a draw. .