Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a woman in Wales with her dead cats tattooed on her back. The cats’ names are Tinky, Woody, Mr Brush, Mr Spock and Bella. While we don’t know with 100 percent certainty that Bella the cat is named after Bella the abstinent vampire lover from Twilight, I’m going to go out on a limb and file this one under “ladies who name their cats after Twilight characters do the darnedest things.” It’s a nice follow-up to the one who had to fight off Renesmee the cat with her husband’s c-pap machine.
Trust me: You’re going to want to see this tattoo.
Fran Bailey, 23, had the puss pictures permanently inked on her skin so can always remember them. Fran said: “I love my cats and I love my tattoo. A lot of people who have lost pets can relate to it.”
Fran took in the cats from animal shelters and cared for her poorly cats at her home in Newtown, in Powys, Mid Wales.
She said: “When I went to the rescue centre I asked for the most ill and unloved cats they had so that they would have somewhere to go.
“That meant the ones I had were ones with feline AIDS so they all died. On average I lost one every two months.”
Well yeah, if you’re adopting AIDS cats, you’re going to need at least six to last you the whole year, everyone knows that. Okay, enough foreplay, let’s see this tattoo with the incredible backstory:
She decided to get a tattoo tribute to the tragic felines – starting off with a set of small paw prints. But the design grew, incorporating “elements of each one’s personalities,” until it finally covered her whole back.
For instance, Tinky is considered is the chef of the group (much like Raekwon in Wu Tang), hence the chef’s hat, whereas Bella could be kind of ditzy, which is why she has a dunce cap over one ear. I’m just interpreting here. All I know is, a woman has a tattoo of her dead AIDS cats on her back, and one is wearing a monocle and another has spaghetti on its head inside a giant tiara made of seahorses. Crying. I’m crying tears of joy right now. Life is just so beautiful sometimes.
[Mirror, Chesterfirst via HuffPo]
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Look, I’m not saying that this isn’t completely crazy, but I’ll always love a cat in a monacle and a bow tie. It’s just science.
And on the opposite end of the awesome spectrum are dogs with party hats.
They would look extremely cute… up close with a wide angle lens.
Glorious. Also, I’m sure those “spots/ruins” above the black cats head are the typical back weirdness someone who actively adopts AIDS cats would have, but they almost look like the beginnings of kitten paws being branded onto her person.
Fun fact: my avatar on here is from an article about glowing AIDS cats [www.bbc.co.uk]
How long have been waiting for an article about cat AIDS? I’m sort of excided for you!
I made this my twitter avatar because I thought it looked amazingly creepy, I knew it would pay off one day!
That tattoo is really flat. Looks like each cat was done by a different artist.
I don’t know what’s hotter… her back tat or her Roger Ebert jaw.
Cat AIDS exists? I did not know that.
I CAN HAZ FIVZ?
Yup, I had a cat die of kitty AIDS. Now that I’m older, I realize that Rocket Parkridge is totally a porn name and we had it coming.
My mind has been fucking blown. And to learn about its legitimacy from THIS article of all things…
That picture has to be her OkCupid.com profile picture, somebody let Matt Louv know.
Pussy rot
Boyfriend: “Hey babe, want to do it doggie style?”
This Woman: “Certainly not!”
haha, I’m joking, no way she has a boyfriend.
“Fran Bailey, 23, had the puss pictures permanently inked on her skin so can always remember them.” She can’t see them, of course, unless she sets up a complicated system of mirrors, but she can always remember them.
Chef’s hat is called a toque, if it ever comes up in conversation again and you are feeling fancy later.
I have to say it doesn’t look much like a chef’s hat anyway. More like a sleeping cap, or possibly one of those floppy caps like the guys in the French Revolution wore.
Rawhead – She has a boyfriend… which is both kind of surprising but not.
What’s the over-under on how many tattoos and/or piercings he has? OR, possibly:
Her: “Let’s get naked and do it!”
Him: “Um, why don’t you keep your shirt on this time?”
haha yeah that would be a bit awkward
They’d be doing it and then he’d start to cry.
Her: “What’s wrong?”
Him: “Mr. Spock. I miss him so damn much!”
Her: “…I’ll put my shirt back on.”
“Say it. Out loud, say it.”
*coughs up hairball*
“Meow.”
The Bella tattoo has more emotional range than Kristen Stewart.
+infinity points for “poorly cats.”
Bella tattoo got AIDS from fucking the tattoo of its director.
Did the cat on the top right die of worms? How sweet.
“Puss pictures permanently” is the most unlikely/delightful alliteration of today.
More like Renesmeeow.
Honestly, I’m just happy that filmdrunk can use “feline aids” in its tags.
There has to be a children’s story or Saturday morning cartoon series out of this. At night, when Fran is unconscious, the cats come to life – like the tattoos on that killer in Electra – and fight crime or shoot pool or drugs or whatever it was that gave them AIDS.. Yeah, needs a little work. Got a title though: BackTatCats.
Elektra – the Jennifer Garner misfire. I don’t think the 1962 Greek movie based on the tragedy by Euripides has a killer with tattoos that come to life.
“Crazy Cat Ladies” needs to be a new tag.
This is a huge cover-up. Those aren’t tattoos. Those cats were sleeping with her, and she rolled over them and squashed them one night, permanently imprinting their kitty images into her doughy flesh.
I’d hate to see the cat that had sex with a monkey with AIDS
I hereby name this cattoo FIV Fast FIV Furious
Hallo! You guys are funny! Really I should be hating this… X
Don’t worry, most of the users on this site are just jealous because they can’t afford a tattoo of that caliber.
if she turns out to be legit, Uproxx needs to come up with a Feline AIDS badge just for her. It’s the least it can do.
A badge would be lovely, thankyou! With the words “AIDS Crusader” emblazoned across it! X
And her name is Bella because she looks Italian! I know that doesn’t help my case for proving my sanity, but it’s funny how the mind works and I suppose it’s better to own up to the truth.
I used to think Humanity needed a chance to survive. I don’t think that anymore.
Too bad the Mayans were wrong eh? X
I told my motherfuckin cat to use clean needles, but the fuckhead wouldn’t listen!
Really sweet, and a little crazy, but she’s cute as hell.
my buddy’s mom makes $80 every hour on the laptop. She has been without a job for 8 months but last month her pay check was $21541 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this site …… BIT40.ℂOℳ
she’s married, right?
damn, another one got away….
Think before you ink, certainly applies here.
While I applaud the love and assistance that is going into caring for these otherwise neglected animals I do have to say: I find it very strange that someone would (largely and permanently) ink their flesh to commemorate creatures they knew for a small handful of weeks.
To the casual observer it seems to be a bit obsessive.
I had them tattooed for a number of reasons. The first is because I was going through a very hard time with severe depression, and having the cats to look after kept me grounded and made me look at the bigger picture – I had creatures that were depending on me, so I couldn’t go and do something stupid. Without them, I don’t know where I’d be now. The main reason however, is to spread awareness of the AIDS virus in cats; the plight of the thousands of neglected or abused animals in shelters (these all came from shelters, and had been there a long time because they weren’t cute healthy kittens); and the fact that animals all have personalities and are all individual (hence the funny hats etc), and aren’t just there for people to use and abuse, ignore and neglect, or get bored with over time, or treat like mere objects. They are living creatures.
Uh, anywho, sorry, felt like I should have been on a balcony speaking to the masses then… “Doooon’t cry for meeee, la la la laaa!” =3 X
Yeah forgot to mention, the spreading awareness bit comes from the fact that it’s a great visual conversation starter – people see it, ask about it, ask why I had it done, and BADDABING BADDABOOM, they know about FIV, Yaaaay! I’m a genius, really.