Black and white photo of two matching fine line cat tattoos, one on each ankle, with the feet pressed together.

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Matching cat tattoos on ankles

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

Two small cats are drawn in black outline on the inner ankles of two feet pressed together, each facing the other. The linework is thin and even, with simple solid shapes for the eyes and striped detailing on the right-hand cat's body and tail. The photograph is black and white, with bookshelves blurred in the background and a partly visible tattoo on the lower leg at the bottom right.

Fine line Ankle Cat Pair Matching Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody on Quarry Street could agree which of the two cats had got to the bookshop cellar first, so they settled it by never going down at the same time. Mrs Okonedo at the bindery said it was Bramble, who had the stripes and the temper. Her nephew swore it was Pell, the black one with the torn ear, who sat in the shop window like a paperweight and watched the buses.

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Every morning they met at the same kerb outside the shop, nose to nose, and tried to outwait each other. Pell would stare. Bramble would wash one paw very slowly, as if the whole street had asked him to. Once a delivery van honked and both of them leapt straight up in unison, and afterwards neither would admit it had been the same jump.

The winter the drains froze, the shop's old radiator gave out and the cellar filled with a smell of wet paper. Pell went down after a mouse and didn't come up. Bramble sat on the bottom step for three days, yowling at the grate until the bookseller's daughter came with a torch and a tin of pilchards. Pell came up blinking, dust on his whiskers, and walked straight past the tin to sit beside Bramble on the step.

That was the year they stopped pretending to be rivals. Now there is a card taped in the shop window that reads Mind the Pair, and nobody asks which of them is which.