Tiger Finger Painting

Izzy is practicing his finger painting skills this week to prepare for his big masterpiece. Izzy has completed one painting before that we raffled off on Earth Day. He's is trying to be more creative and would like to have more practice for his next painting. To help Izzy practice we are training him to put a paw on a white piece of paper. Although Izzy is very smart, it can take some time for him to learn a new behavior. To start we rewarded him for looking at the paper on the ground. Then as he figured this out we are rewarding him for putting his paw on the paper. So every time he accidently steps or walks on the paper we reward him. He hasn't quite made the association that his paw is supposed to be on the paper but he is getting there. Izzy seems to know it has to do something with placement of his paws but not quite exactly where to put it. Once he has learn to put his paw on the white paper we will add some non-toxic finger paint for him to smear around. While Izzy was practicing with paints the other day he really liked the smell and feel of the wet paint and started to roll on it! Izzy's next masterpiece will be on raffle July 9th on our FREE Day! So come check it out for yourself!