Most people grow emotionally attached to their pets, but this lady has taken her love for her cats to the next level.
Fran Bailey, from Newtown, Wales, has the faces of five of her deceased cats tattooed on her back.
She found the cats at a rescue centre, where she asked for the “most ill and unloved cats they had so that they would have somewhere to go.”
She ended up taking in five cats with feline AIDS, Tinky, Woody, Mr Brush, Mr Spock and Bella. All of them ended up dying from the fatal condition.
“I love my cats and I love my tattoo,” Bailey told the Mirror. “A lot of people who have lost pets can relate to it.”
The animal lover explained that the design incorporates “elements of each one’s personalities.” In the tattoo, one cat is seen sporting a monocle, while another wears a dunce cap.
Fran has decorated her body with her love of pets and the wild and wacky.
She said that she now has five more cats, but does not plan to add to the tattoo when they pass on to animal heaven.
Fran works as a tattoo artist and featured in a two-part programme of the documentary show My Tattoo Addiction last autumn.
Her other tattoos include a sushi platter, a pixelated banana and a cherry as a reference to video games, a drunk Japanese cat, an anime cat, a breakdancing scene, an “Oriental face”, a “zombified heart garter” and a sleeve featuring ribbons, butterflies and ink splatters.
