A Michael Broad Blog
In cats, solar dermatitis is a recurrent skin disease caused by exposure to sunlight leading to sunburn. It is most often seen in white cats or cats with white noses and white ears. It is a recurrent inflammation which may ultimately predispose the cat to squamous cell carcinoma in those areas. My reference work …
This is a nice picture of the inside of a black cat’s ear flap showing a tattoo of what appears to be this symbol: φ . It is an alternative way of telling people that the cat has been spayed or neutered. The usual way is to ‘ear tip’ – cut off the tip …
Tattooing your cat or dog is okay provided it is for identification purposes. Apparently, too, veterinarians sometimes tattoo a small line on female cats who have been spayed. The purpose, it is said, is to provide a clear sign that the cat has been spayed if the wound has healed so well that it …
This is a cat story from central Russian, specifically the village of Pervomaisky near Yekaterinburg. A man who goes by the name of ‘Kara Fight’ (real name Rustam Shafiev) is obsessed with tattoos. He’s tattooed all over his body. He acquired a hairless cat and decided to tattoo him. His cat, Demon, has tattoos …
This is sad and pathetic as far as I am concerned. As a cat owner you don’t impose your attitudes about your preferred appearance on your cat especially when it relates to tattooing. This bloke is obsessed with dark, gothic tattoos. That’s fine. He can do what he likes to his skin provided it …
This Ukrainian cat owner, a wannabe glamour celebrity type who seeks attention whenever and wherever possible, has had her hairless cat tattooed on the chest and defends her actions by claiming that she has not neutered him as that would be torture but tattooing her cat isn’t torture (he was sedated). I think she …
I suppose it had to happen again. It has happened in the past: tattooing cats, and inevitably it causes uproar amongst decent minded people. In this instance a tattoo artist whose nickname is ‘Qiangzi’ decided to tattoo the right foreleg of his kitten. He runs a tattoo parlour in Jining, China. His exploits were …
Tutankhamun tattoo on a Sphynx cat. It is impossible to tattoo a cat unless the cat is hairless (or shaved) and the Sphynx is one such cat. Actually, it is not completely hairless, there is a fine down hair covering the skin, which feels like a warm and muscular peach! But to tattoo …
