Outrage Over Tattooed Dogs

A North Carolina man is being hounded by animal activist after inking his two dogs on their stomachs!

Ernesto Rodriguez, a tattoo artist, was actually caught after posting pics of the tattoos on Facebook!

Of course they're gone now, the pictures not the pooches, but he wasn't able to remove them before people took screenshots and sent them all over the web!

One of Rodriguez's posts said,

"Animal control came looked at my beautiful dog and left.... wow... what a waste of tax payers money... so im still gonna tattoo my dogs whenever i feel like it... good try haters thanks for all the advertisement."

And when he spoke to reporters he told them,

"I didn't just plop [my four-month-old dog] on the bed and tattoo her. She was already [under] anesthetic. She was asleep, completely asleep. I even used topical anesthetic, too, on the skin. So she didn't feel anything. I love my dogs. There's people out there saying that I'm cruel, that I hurt my dogs, that I don't love my dogs, that I shouldn't be doing this, that I should be in jail. None of it is true. I paid a lot of money for my dogs. I take care of them."

According to USA Today, dog tattoos are becoming more and more popular despite PETA's objections.