My daughter has just sent me an email. This is what it was. Please sign the petition. I'm not sure how to put a link, but I'm sure someone will. Feel free to edit as you see fit.

What a sick evil b*stard!!




THIS WILL TAKE A MINUTE OF YOUR TIME AND WILL SAVE A CREATURE – AND HOPEFULLY REMOVE THIS SO-CALLED 'ARTIST'!!!

Hi all,
this is a very serious matter...

In the 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, he tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony,
until eventually he died.
















Does it look like art to you?

But this is not all ... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo
Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.


Let's STOP HIM!!!!!

Click on the following link :

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition-sign.html

or

http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html or just copy it in your browser to sign a petion to stop him to do it again, then digit the name Guillermo Vargas Habacuc to find the petition to sign.

Please do it.

It's free of charge and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.

Please also send this e-mail to as many contact as you can... Let's stop him!!!

If you want to double check all the above informations you can google the name of the 'artist' to see all I have just said corresponds to truth.

Thank you

Signed.

Also signed and forwarded on to everybody I know.

That petitions been on the go a while and apparently the place where he is to do this again say that the petition won't make any difference But i've already signed it and i know ALOT of other people have-just a shame that they aren't going to take any notice of it

Find out more here http://www.germanshepherdsuk.co.uk/forum/v...php?f=99&t=7651 there are links on this page too-like i say it's been going on a while and i just can't believe he's being allowed to do this again

Signed, there must be someone in Honduras who can do something about this surely.

Sick, sick, sick

That little dogs face in the last pictures has made me cry. Why the hell are people allowed to be so cruel to these lovely animals. Would this guy be happy for me to tie his mother up in the corner of an art gallery in this way
I hope Karma catches up with this pig.

Just added this to another site that I used and someone pointed this out:

"artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas
intended the work to be a stunt to show how a starving dog suddenly
becomes the centre of attention when it is in a gallery, but not when
it is on the street. The work was intended to expose people for what
they really are - "hyprocritical sheep". He said that in order for
the work to be valid, he and the gallery had to give the impression
that the dog was genuinely starving to death and that it died.


Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Codex Gallery, stated that she
would not have allowed the dog to be mistreated, that it ate and
drank regularly, and that it was allowed to escape back to the
streets from where it was taken at the end of the exhibit. "It is
conceptual art and a work that leaves a social message", she said.


The stunt provoked massive outrage on a global scale, and over a
million people have signed an online petition to try and prevent
another dog being starved to death in a repeat of the exhibit.
Unconfirmed reports say that the artist even received death threats"

I have read some of the comments the 'artist' apparently has made. It seems he keeps changing his mind about what it was meant to represent.

Sorry to disagree with the director of the gallery, but does the dog look like it was fed and watered regularly???

Even if the dog did not die, it was not something that any animal should have to suffer, and the petition is to try to stop him from repeating it. Surely to sign is better than doing nothing?

I'm not disagreeing with you at all - I still stand by my original comments which is why I did not delete them (oh - and I did sign the petition too)

I saw this a while back and it made me feel physically sick.

Me too. It also makes me feel helpless and angry Why, oh why do some people have so little humanity?

I hope something carches up with him.....preferably a bullet!

I've signed this petition too, but in reading up more about the original exhibition, I found this:

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/dog-left-...-considered-art

This claims the dog was only on show for 3 hours.

It's very sad that any dogs in any country are mis-treated or ignored in this way, and allegedly this stunt was to show that it would make a difference to how people reacted to what is an every day sight in that country if it was moved to an art gallery. Some people apparently did ask for the dog to be freed, so it did have an effect. But it is a sad fact that not all countries, especially those less well-developed, show such loving care to their animals as we do in this country.

I'm not in anyway condoning this exhibit, and I hope the version in the link I have posted is accurate, and that there has been a lot of sensationalisation (such a word?) by the media, exaggerating the truth. But if it has created the interest and outrage across the world that it seems to have, and that leads to people taking a better interest in the plight of these animals then bringing that plight to the world's attention could possibly be seen as a good thing? Not art, certainly, but are these photos worse than if the same photos were taken in the street?

Please don't crucify me for saying that - I'm as upset as anyone at the sight of the dog, but I'm just as upset at the thought of all the others, ignored and left to die on the streets. Perhaps we should be working to stop that happening as well as another exhibit.

I wouldn't crucify anyone, except perhaps the artist. And I totally agree that we should be working for the plight of the other animals too. If only there was a way to educate some people

I have spent many years training as an Art Historian, and I am continually amazed by what passes as ART these days. Hi art is NOT art but an embodiment of psychology. I cannot believe anyone in their right mind could chain up a dog and call it art. It's just cruelty, and makes me feel well and truly sick.

I agree, but I also understand that dogs are not treated as loving pets in all countries. I remember a while back watching a cooking programme in horror. It was all about dogs being cooked for the table... It was horrific. Moll was sat on my feet as usual, snoring.

I don't think I could go to a gallery showing this sort of thing. I had enough trouble at the RA when they had some taxidermy on show at the summer exhibition. I believe firmly that animals have rights. Moll & Oz (the brainless cat) have rights in my world, (more than many of my relatives).

I agree on both counts, and have signed the petition (little good it may do) too.