A pet owner could face criminal charges after she tattooed her cat to make it more “glamorous”.
Fitness model Elena Ivanickaya, from Chernihiv in Ukraine, decided to have an image of Winged Anubis, an Egyptian god, tattooed on her pet sphinx’s chest.
While Ivanickaya maintains the cat was anaesthetised during the inking and “did not feel any pain”, animal right’s activists and concerned animal lovers alike are claiming it’s a case of animal cruelty.
Certainly, the photos posted to the model’s Instagram page are difficult to look at. One shows the cat being pinned down, with a person’s hand around its neck and a needle in its arm as the tattoo artist completes the image.
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This is beyond cruel, as it was not done to help the cat, only to make the owner feel special.
I have a friend, who has a white cat, with a pink nose, that was in danger of getting skin cancer, even when kept inside. The Vet suggested tattooing the nose black to prevent this, and as such, the cat has been helped in preventing skin cancer. But this is just beyond ridiculous.
Disgusting behaviour - the owner is clearly more "feral" than the poor cat!