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She Inks Cats All Day and Goes Home to a 35-Pound Maine Coon
Nine out of ten of Katya Krasnova's tattoos are cats, and it's no accident. For the Kyiv-born, LA-based artist, felines aren't a niche, they're the whole way she sees, and her enormous Maine Coon, Tor, is proof of concept.
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