South Florida dog goes viral for painting skills

MIAMI – Monkey is a friendly dog with an artistic talent.

“Let’s give him all the credit because he’s the only dog in the world that is doing this,” said animal trainer Omar Von Muller.

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Six-year-old Monkey has been learning how to do all kinds of tricks for years, but his trainer and owner explained Monkey has been learning to paint for the last six months.

“We started working end of last year,” he said.

Von Muller said it’s not the quickest process.

With hundreds of millions of views on Instagram, Monkey has quite the social media presence.

His paintings range in price from $1500 to $2000 dollars apiece. For more info on Monkey’s art, click here.


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