Pet Tattoos Are Helping Owners Memorialize Their Furry Best Friends
glamour.com—on my last count I have 17 tattoos on my arms, leg, back, and ribs, plus three cover-ups—but I had mixed feelings about pet tattoos in general.
Wouldn’t I feel bad about not commemorating each and every one of my past pets if I did so with Wilson? But as I looked around at my friends and fellow tattoo fans, I realized how increasingly common pet tattoos have become over the last few years.By keeping my cat on my body forever, perhaps the grief weighing down my chest could evolve into something equally meaningful and beautiful.“There’s always a bump in specific requests when I share new pet portrait work,” says , a tattoo artist at in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood who specializes in fine-line black and gray work. “Clients tend to gravitate towards delicate, fine-line representations of their pet portraits.
I love to tattoo them.”As luck would have it, I had also recently spotted Esquire and Men’s Health grooming editor ’s trio of dog tattoos and was floored by how stunningly realistic they looked (he visited Wayne for two of the designs). “In the case of my first dog tattoo, I waited until after she died,” Munce says via email. “That was more of a memorial to her.
In the case of the two newer ones, I just am so completely obsessed with my pugs Elvira and Morticia that I didn’t want to wait until they died.
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