A Cat Named Do

I met Shawn in Penn Station near the Amtrak terminal earlier this month. He was doing what most people are doing when I stop them in Penn Station: waiting for a train.<br /><br />He was with who I will presume to be his wife and toddler son. I noticed he had tattoos on his arms so I approached him and told him about Tattoosday.<br /><br />With his wife's encouragement, he pulled up his shirt to reveal this astonishingly unique tattoo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_tV-ePxRIorLWwioQhs_Jyd7AmyHhkxfPCznhWFeV5xVZJ2UsmCN08JW9L5mcAwfb585oTI3G_mZUOlvGD4FnXPFofecw5vrXbU1wYUtyj-L85s07_CcQdJ0k4RQS4JDkvYWr7tFL/s1600/Do+the+Cat+original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_tV-ePxRIorLWwioQhs_Jyd7AmyHhkxfPCznhWFeV5xVZJ2UsmCN08JW9L5mcAwfb585oTI3G_mZUOlvGD4FnXPFofecw5vrXbU1wYUtyj-L85s07_CcQdJ0k4RQS4JDkvYWr7tFL/s640/Do+the+Cat+original.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Shawn drew this design himself. As a person who liked cats, this feline is based on a cat that he once had named "Do" (as in "How do you do?").<br /><br />"What happened to Do?" I asked.<br /><br />Shawn looked over at his son and said, sadly, "Do was not a family cat."<br /><br />Some feline house pets do not like new babies and do not hide that fact. Since we are taught as a society that babies are more precious than pets, they gave Do up to another home. The cat to the left of Do in the tattoo is "Do's shadow".<br /><br />Not just any cat tattoo, Shawn's design is artistic, with clocks for eyes and machinery rumbling away in Do's insides.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqFT0zPqR-JdFysfjB9OU9B7XxpqHKp-eyYuT0qlHwtVeJ9h4gLk3BAmAiltLHViv-LRTu-956FLAVIBuqUMN-jEFFs3FKa8qr3Z3HU0Otrumb18y3JGjJAXvyoDoIs_i3g2iT-rX/s1600/Do+the+Cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcqFT0zPqR-JdFysfjB9OU9B7XxpqHKp-eyYuT0qlHwtVeJ9h4gLk3BAmAiltLHViv-LRTu-956FLAVIBuqUMN-jEFFs3FKa8qr3Z3HU0Otrumb18y3JGjJAXvyoDoIs_i3g2iT-rX/s640/Do+the+Cat.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><br />Shawn also has ink on his back, one leg, and arms (including a sleeve).<br /><br />This piece was tattooed in 12-14 hours by Davie mac at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/daviemactats">Davie Mac's Tattoos</a> in Niagara Falls, New York.<br /><br />Thanks to Shawn for sharing Do with us here on Tattoosday!

A Cat Named Do

I met Shawn in Penn Station near the Amtrak terminal earlier this month. He was doing what most people are doing when I stop them in Penn St...

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