Would you get a dog related tattoo?

[BG and Gavin]

Just got this article sent through Dogster:  http://blogs.dogster.com/living-with-dogs/simone-reyes-talks-to-us-... and it reminded me of a discussion we had in yappy hour on Friday.  A number of us were on chat trying to convince Dori that she needed to get a Rua tattoo to mark the beginning of  the next chapter of her life.  (Hmmmm maybe the new KangaRua logo??)  Mind you it was easy for us liquor soaked cheerleaders to urge her on ;)  I recall someone on DK (can't remember who) has paw prints tattooed on her ankle or foot.  So what do you think DKers - to tattoo or not to tattoo - that is the question!

[BG and Gavin]

...said the voice of reason.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Sorry, but I do try to think before I act by this age. Now I begin the search for the keys I lost yesterday, having not made some duplicates I promised myself I would : )

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

I agree, F.  If the tattoo is the right thing for Dori (and maybe it really is), it will still be the right thing a year after she's moved to CA and settled into her new life here.    

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

Oh F! You are a party pooper!!

... she has been thinking about this since 1999, I would think that's enough time to mull things over. That being said, I do agree that it should be a spot that she can see it and enjoy it.

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Guess that makes me a party popper, too.  Ha Ha!!  If she's been THINKING about it for thirteen years and hasn't yet ACTED on it, perhaps there's a reason...  Perhaps there's a little voice somewhere deep inside saying "Don't do it".  Unless that voice was her soon-to-be-ex, then that's a completely different story!!!

[BG and Gavin]

I don't have a tattoo and spent more than my fair share of time talking the teen girls that I worked with OUT of getting one.  Once they were of age I used to say "decide on a location and decide on a design, wait one year and if you still want it, then go ahead."  Having said that, I doubt people with "regret" about tattoos is more of passing feeling of regret, not a get up every morning and have trouble facing the day due to regret over real life-changing decisions they have made.  If you get something tasteful in a place where you feel comfortable your "regret" may be just an amusing story about the time in your life when you got it.

[F, Calla & Luca]

True enough, not a life changing thing either way.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Maybe I am but I don't mean to be. I guess I think a tattoo should be carefully considered. I agree with Deanna, maybe there are good reasons and lots of ambivalence that have stopped Dori before. I have made decisions I regret and I work with people who have so it is a personal and professional caution I've given.

[Camilla and Darwin]

I wouldn't, but I can see how a small name or paw print might be okay.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Tatoos give me shivers.  It is personal, but I just cannot envision that I would ever, ever, ever get one, but you go for it, Dori.  A Rua tattoo would be a very cool choice.

[Jennifer and Jack]

I thought of getting one before, of a butterfly, then I thought of actually copying Jack's paw print and getting one,

The issue for me is when I was right out of high school, I worked in a nursing home and I saw the end results of a lot of tatoo's . One time I thought it was well I won't say but I kept scrubbing and scrubbing to try to get it off, until I realized it was a tatoo.

To each their own.... Dori, I think if you want one, Go for it!!!!  You and Rua have my support no matter what...

[Chloe, Finley & Mama Shelley]

I find this sooo ironic..I actually AM getting a paw print tattoo and am very excited about it. I have a tattoo already that I got several years ago of a sunflower and vine on my left inner ankle and i love it and have never regretted it for a minute. I have wanted another tattoo ever since but never sure what to get until the recent passing of my 14 yr old Golden, Jake.
Seriously how better to honor my love of my dogs than a paw print on my ankle to symbolize they are always at my side. I just turned 48 years young and don't consider myself old at all and besides nothing to really "sag"on your ankle. My husband and my 2grown sons fully support the idea and have already agreed to fund it. I should be getting it in the next week or so and will post pics for all you Wimps"..lol.
My plan is to have a tastefully done paw print with one of the pads having the name Jake in it. Then I will have 3 other spots left for my remaining 3 dogs I have now..
FYI.. it doesn't hurt as much as you all think..my sunflower was my first and I was pleasantly surprised! Its all colored in too, not just an outline.
Pics soon.... Night all. :-D