Man tattoos his dog

Brooklyn tattoo artist inks own dog and posts photo on internet, sparking outrage
Mistah Metro revealed on Instagram that he gave his brown and white pooch a heart-shaped tat with an arrow through it and a ribbon around it reading ‘Alex’ and ‘Mel.’ The bodywork was needled onto the dog’s right shoulder while it was out cold in a veterinarian’s office.

BY ERIK BADIA AND BILL HUTCHINSON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014, 6:30 PM

A Brooklyn tattoo artist is sparking howls of criticism after proudly posting the latest ink work he did — on his dog.
The artist, known only by his nickname Mistah Metro, revealed he gave his brown and white pooch a heart-shaped tat with an arrow through it and a ribbon around it reading “Alex” and “Mel.”
The bodywork was inked on the dog’s right shoulder while it was out cold in a veterinarian’s office.
“One of the many reasons my dog is cooler than your[s]! She had her spleen removed today and the vet let me tattoo her while she was under,” Mistah Metro barked on Instagram.
The photo was republished on website Gothamist, triggering so much flack the tattoo artist took the photo down.
But just two hours after the photo vanished, it was posted again on Instagram by someone claiming to be mistahmetro7.
“Had to delete my account and make up another, some people just don’t appreciate anything! It’s an ANIMAL with a tattoo,” the poster bristled.

After attracting even more condemnation, the photo was taken down again Wednesday night.
Mistah Metro, who didn’t immediately respond to an email from the Daily News, works at Red Legged Devil, a tattoo shop in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Chris Torres, the owner of the shop, refused to give out the artist’s name, but tried to distance himself from the controversy.
“Nothing happened at the shop,” Torres told The News. “The dog didn’t get tattooed at this shop. It has nothing to do with this shop whatsoever.
“I’d appreciate it if everyone left me alone,” Torres said.
But Torres took to Twitter to try to silence critics.
“You guys are aware that the ASPCA tattoos dogs & cats once they’ve spayed or neutered them, right?” Torres tweeted.

Torres also shot back at those who slammed him for allowing Mistah Metro to keep working at his shop.
“People are still offered jobs after being pedophiles,” he said in an interview with Gothamist. “I don’t know why everyone is treating this kid like he raped a 12-year-old.”
But animal lovers bombarded Mistah Metro’s Instagram account with angry messages.
“Are you on crack? That’s f—ed up,” one commenter posted.
Another described the dog tattooing as “horrid.”
“Seriously, it didn’t ask for it!” the poster said of the dog. “What kind of human would do that.”
On his website, MistahMetro.com, the artist describes himself as a New York native “in every sense of the word.”
“In his early youth Metro received much of his influence from watching his grandfather paint,” his website says. “He continues the family tradition in his own forms of expression. There seems to be no boundaries on the different mediums Metro uses on this artistic journey.”

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I can’t understand the idea that he could – would just tattoo his dog for the hell of it. Involuntary tattooing is illegal in most reasonable countries and the tattooist would be prosecuted, and a dog is hardly likely to agree.
Or maybe it would.