Many who walk keep track of their steps with pedometers. They are inexpensive and people love feedback of how many steps they did in a day. Get one for everyone in your family and see who walks most steps in a week. Whoever wins gets to decide on menu for a week, doesn’t have to do any clean up or chores. Or you could have prizes you give away.

Since I am into weight training and especially enjoy circuit training, you could try something like circuit training in your home. You could start with stretching; and then move to running up and down stairs; then some floor exercises, such as sit ups, side bends, push ups. If you have some type of equipment, like a treadmill, bicycle, Gazelle or something along these lines you could also add that into circuit. Do each activity for a couple of minutes or one repetition and then move to next activity or “station”. You could also place each activity in a different room and walk briskly or jog to each “station”.

Get those creative juices flowing and I am sure in no time you can come up with a whole bunch of other fun activities. Enjoy!

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Tracking systems for animals is nothing new, but majority of these systems require invasive devices implanted into animal, and a lot of pet owners opt not to have this procedure done because of risk involved, not to mention cost of such a procedure. Another type of tracking is pet tattooing, but if pet is lost, trying to find a tattoo that they do not know exist defeats purpose. The pet identification tag can be worn on collar of most domestic pets, and it is readily identified by majority of people who find lost pets, and it does not require any type of invasive procedures to be performed on pet.

Finding an affordable way to recover lost pets is wish of every pet owner if their pet should ever become lost, but an ounce of prevention as saying goes can save owner from traumatic experiences that are associated with losing family pet. With today’s fast pace movements and population explosion , we do not have a chance to get to know our neighbors way we used to, so having a means of identifying a lost pet that is affordable and recognizable can reduce stresses associated with owning a pet who is a member of family.