Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
My brother has shown remarkable growth in the maturity department since our parents got married and we were thrown together as siblings. I no longer worry about him pulling impulsive, ill-considered stunts that backfire on him (like, say, oh...stowing away on the space shuttle). Then he decided to get a tattoo.
I haven’t heard the whole story yet; I’ve just gotten pieces of it. (From Fiona, of course.) It seems that Rudy, without consulting her, decided to get a tattoo of Fiona’s face on his chest. That last detail was kind of redundant, since the chest/tummy region is the only area a canine has that isn’t covered in fur.
He was taken aback when five-year-old rabbit Wendell Luckyfoot entered the tattoo parlor. Little Wendell has grand designs on being the Easter Bunny someday, to the point of using whatever means are necessary to achieve it. Rudy was able to handle him back in April, when he and Fiona returned him to his grateful mom.
Wendell intended to get the “Easter Bunny’s” signature shades tattooed on his face; a rather extreme demonstration of his ambitions. Of course he’s way underage, and the store owner never would’ve done anything without a responsible party’s consent. Rudy, who knew Wendell’s full name from the Easter incident, looked up his phone number online and called his mom. That’s as much of the story as I have at the moment.
Tattoos are probably more common in the human world than they are here. Only a few mammals lack fur (elephants, rhinos, hippos, pigs, naked mole rats) and birds are covered in feathers. Fish have scales, and reptiles and amphibians show little interest in the procedure. (Some shelled species have pictures and designs carved into their shells, which is a related mode of expression.)
Can you confirm this about humans? Do you have any tattoos?
