An "animal-mad" woman who shares her home with more than 50 rescued animals and reptiles has the ashes of two beloved pets inked permanently into her skin so she can "carry them with me forever". Alexandra Ashe, 35, who has at least 30 images of her rescued creatures emblazoned across her body, decided to have the ashes of her late tabby cat, Lamb, embedded in her right arm, and the remains of a three-legged baby fox called Matilda tattooed next to her heart.
Crediting the cat she had owned since she was 18 for having pulled her through recovery after she fell into heroin addiction in her late teens and 20s, Alexandra has now been drug free for five years and dedicates her life to caring for rescue animals in a sanctuary in her home. Alexandra – whose mother’s maiden name was Dolittle – also lives with her husband, security guard, Michael Evans, 41, and said: “Whatever I go through, I always come back to the animals – they are my safe place, my serenity, my foundation. Having Lamb and Matilda’s ashes tattooed into my skin means I get to carry them with me forever.”
Getting her first tattoo of one of her lizards at 18, Alexandra’s body is now a love letter to all her pets and rescue animals, both past and present.
