Realism colour tattoo of a Rottweiler's head with tan markings and open mouth on the upper arm.

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Rottweiler portrait on an upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A detailed portrait of a Rottweiler's head, shown from a front three-quarter angle with the mouth slightly open. The black fur is rendered with soft shading and fine strands, while the tan points on the muzzle, brow and cheeks are blended smoothly. The tattoo sits on an upper arm, filling most of the frame against plain skin.

Realism Upper arm Dog Portrait Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Duke came down the slipway the morning after the gale with a length of blue rope in his jaw, his brows working the way they did when he had decided something and did not intend to discuss it. Nobody in Saltcombe had taught him to fetch. He just picked things up off the quay and carried them to whoever looked most in need of them, and that morning it was me, sat on an upturned crate with my hands raw from a torn trawl net.

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He belonged to nobody in particular, though Tom Ferris claimed him most. Tom had the Mary Jane, a crabber with a green wheelhouse, and every evening he tossed Duke the heads from the day's catch while the gulls stood back in a huff. The dog would sit at the end of the pier and watch the boat go out past the breakwater, ears up, jowls loose, as though he were the harbour master and it was his job to count them back in.

The Mary Jane did not come back in on Tuesday. The lifeboat went out at first light and returned at noon with only a sodden oar and a fishing hat, and after that the town went quiet in the way small places do, all doors shut and kettles on. Duke would not leave the end of the pier. I took him a blanket and a bowl of water and sat with him, and he let me, which was more than most of the village managed.

On Thursday the tide turned at four and the dog got up, stiff and grey at the muzzle, and began to bark, a deep sound I had never heard from him. Out past the breakwater, low in the water and listing hard to port, the Mary Jane was crawling home with one man at the wheel and another lashed to the rail. Duke ran the length of the pier without once looking back at me. He had counted her in. That was all he had ever wanted to do.