![]() He preferred a raspberry spray, which may explain why he tried to eat the canvas. “They go crazy for the perfume.”īam Bam, a grizzly bear at Turpentine Creek, was different, said Farrell. “Calvin Klein Obsession seems to be a big favorite,” said Farrell. Perfume is sprayed on the canvas to get the animal’s attention. The paint is nontoxic and edible, said Farrell. In addition, one auction was for a custom painting by an animal chosen by the auction’s winner.The custom painting auction went for $180. Of the 11 paintings sold Monday, six were done by tigers and one each by a lion, a cougar, a black bear and a grizzly bear. Monday’s auction was the first time the actual paintings were for sale, said Farrell. Prints and magnet miniatures of some paw paintings are for sale in Turpentine Creek’s gift shop, he said. Kyle Jorgensen, staff zoologist and spokesman for Turpentine Creek, said therefuge began experimenting with paw paintings in February. ![]() Farrell said it was the refuge’s first online auction. She and Alexa Godfrey, an intern from San Mateo, Calif., handled the auction for Turpentine Creek. The online auction, which also included many donated items, brought in a total of about $5,000, said Farrell. The auction was promoted through Turpentine Creek’s Facebook page. That money will be used to help rescue big cats from Riverglen Tiger Shelter near Mountainburg, where owner Betty Young, 72, has been downsizing from 34 to about 10 animals. But it’s definitely the cats who do the painting.”Įleven paintings made by animals at Turpentine Creek sold through an online auction Monday for a total of $1,706. “We have some tigers who use their paws,” said Kelly Farrell, 24, of Stafford, Va., an intern at the big-cat refuge near Eureka Springs. Constrained by the aesthetic limitations of paw painting, the animals at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge are putting other body parts into their art.
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