My childhood cat died yesterday, after 15 years of being a total badass.


This is my cat a few weeks before she died. She used to be really beautiful but tumors deformed her face and she lost a ton of weight.

So I wanted to do something to remember what a tough old bird she was, and my boyfriend said I should get a tattoo.

All my other tattoos are "old school", so I was thinking it would be awesome to represent her as a reinterpretation of the black panther that's a pretty common trope in tattoos:



But grey and with ragged fur.

I don't know where it would go though. My first thought is my left arm, and I could incorporate a tree and a dead bird at the bottom, because she killed mad birds.

But I don't know.

What do you suggest?

tl;dr my cat died and I'm thinking about getting at tattoo of her but don't know quite how to go about it.