5-year-old Pine girl teams with pet fish to take gold at Betta Winter Olympics

5-year-old Pine girl teams with pet fish to take gold at Betta Winter Olympics

Source: triblive

2/17/2023

Credit: Tony Larussa

With a little knowledge and persistence, even a young child can teach a dog to do a trick.

But getting a tiny betta fish to do acrobatics takes an ocean of patience that begins with getting the cold-blooded creature to warm up to its human trainer.

Five-year-old Lily LaBrozzi of Pine did just that with Max, her deep-blue betta that she entered into the 2023 Betta Winter Olympics, an international event hosted by Aquascape Art, which is based in the United Kingdom.

Lily and her brother, Mason, 4, are the children of Justin and Katie LaBrozzi.