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Dachshund line drawing on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A single continuous black outline shows a dachshund in profile, with a long body, short legs, a pointed snout and a rounded ear. The linework is thin and even, with no shading or fill. The tattoo sits on pale skin, photographed close up on the foot with a plain, softly lit background.

Fine line Ankle Dog Animal Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Pryce had been counting the hens since breakfast, and the count kept coming out one short. By the time the frost lifted off the yard gate, Tilly the dachshund had gone under it, belly low, long back flat as a ruler, nose down in the drifts along the hedge. Nobody had ever taught her to be quiet in snow. She simply went where the scent went, and that morning the scent went under the hay barn.

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Owen Lacey found her there in the dark, halfway into a gap between two bales, with only her back legs and stubby tail showing. He caught the tail and she wriggled out with a dusty, offended sneeze and a hen's yellow feather stuck to one ear. Under the straw sat a clutch of eggs, still warm, nested in an old tractor seat. Somebody had been laying in the wrong place for weeks.

"Brave, aren't you," he said, and she looked at him as if he had stated the obvious.

They walked back across the field together, the dog choosing the path because the snow was deeper than her chest and she had decided that was the only sensible route. Behind them the barn door knocked in the wind. Owen carried the eggs inside his jacket. Tilly carried nothing, which she considered only fair.