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Tattooing His Cat

Tattoosue — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:35:14 +0000

You may have heard of this type of craziness before. Yes, cat owners have tattooed their cats, painted their cats, dyed their dogs, and some people have tattooed pigs. I don’t agree with any of it. Hurting or traumatizing an animal for what amounts to “shits and giggles” is wrong. Tattooing your pet while you have them knocked out – wrong.

Russian tattoo artist Timur didn’t think so. He anesthetized his cat, a hairless Sphynx, for an hour while he tattooed the cat’s chest. Then he posted pictures of the tattoo session and a video of himself doing the tattooing. (I only watched until he was just about to make the first stab with the machine.)

The look on the cat’s face says it all.

Animal rights activists aren’t very happy with Timur and began accusing Timur of animal cruelty. According to the activists every time a cat is put under she loses about a year of her life (has anyone else heard of this?), and because the healing process for the tattoo is very painful. There’s also the fact that putting an animal under is always a risky process.

Why take any chances if you love the cat? And then you take a year of life away, too? Way to go.

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Cattoo Design

Tattoosue — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:18:52 +0000

I wanted to tell you about a new tattoo blog with a specific topic – cat tattoos. They call the cat tattoos they are featuring Team Cattoo. They are combining tattoos and helping animals by bringing needed attention to animal rescue groups. They are featuring people that help out animals and volunteer to work with organizations that desperately need help. Any of these volunteers that have any cat tattoos will be pictured on this blog.

The latest blog post is about the San Francisco SPCA which is supported by the community.

Hopefully this blog will remind people that these groups could use any support you can offer. With the economy being in rough shape, people are turning in their animals in record numbers. They can’t afford to feed and keep them anymore. All of the foreclosure in the last couple of years caused many families to give up their pets when they were forced to move. To compound the problem, funding is being cut to animal shelter across the country. If you can spare some cash, donate to your local animal groups. If you can’t afford a donation, see if you can give your time. Most shelters are always looking for volunteers to help out.

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Stoned Cat

Susan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:10:00 +0000

I’ve recently thought about trying out this medium. Painting on rocks. I’m sure that this is much more difficult than it looks – painting animals, capturing the texture of the fur, is not easy. Patty Donathan retired at the young age of 50 and dedicated her focus to improving her craft and getting serious about selling her craft. Visit her site to check out more of her art.

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Tattoo Artist

Susan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:42:00 +0000

Love the name which he claims is his real name- this guy is an artist currently working in Missouri and has some very nice examples on his site. The sample of work he displays in his site emphasis the gray and black work. Not a lot of colorful, bright work displayed. Reading about him didn’t shine any light on his preferences, it’s just what I surmised from his portfolio.

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Cats and Skulls

Susan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:19:00 +0000

I grabbed this photo from a blog of a digital artist who’s focus is animals and also digital scrapbooking. I was nicely surprised to find she also included one of my favorite subjects – skulls. I love this particular picture the butterfly, skull combination. She is very creative and I recently have tried to teach myself to us Elements to come up with some interesting digital creations and it’s not as easy as it looks. I hope I can come up with something this appealing someday.

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Etcha a Sketch Evil Cat

Susan — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:42:00 +0000

In the past few months, I’ve written about an etch-a-sketch artist that can do magic with this antique toy. Fortunately, Ron contacted me and one thing led to another and he tackled a picture of a cat that I have on my various sites. It’s a pierced, tough, cool cat and he captured it in great detail – as you can tell for yourself – Click here to see the rest of his work. I’ll soon be posting my etch-a-sketch cat on my sites -

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Cat Clothing

Susan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:09:00 +0000

No, not for your cat but for you. For hard core cat lovers. It’s a store based in London and has an e-store. Cute stuff but not for everyone – “selling kitten caboodle for punk pussycats, manga kittens, sexy Catwomen and bad-kitty goth girls everywhere! http://www.vixitrix.co.uk/

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Pumpkin Cat

Susan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:41:00 +0000

there is a very talented pumpkin carver – I strongly recommend his site if you want to be amazed at what you can do with a pumpkin – true art http://www.pumpkingutter.com

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