Starving a dog for "art" - Sign the petition!

[cassiesmom]

(sick to my stomach) This is not art. This is sanctioned cruelty to an animal. I'd like to tie up and slowly starve this person. I can't even refer to him as an artist because there are a few people on Pet Talk, photographers, whose pictures are spectacular. That is art.

[gini]

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/n/navitidad.htm

I have been upset about this since someone told me about the thread. I just could not believe anyone would allow this to happen.

I cannot bring myself to look at the pictures - the mental image is enough for me!

I have gone searching the internet to see if the story is true. Above is the link to Truth or Fiction about this story.

There are many conflicting stories about whether it is true or not. I do find it hard to believe that they would let the dog run loose in the gallery and that it "escaped."

We are all outraged if this is true.

[inlovewithanimals]

this man needs to be shown as "art" and suffer with food about 20 feet away from him see if he likes slowly starving i signed the petition and am number 2019296 i can not wait to hear the outcome of this one i cant believe people can be so cruel!!! ugh it just makes me so mad when people show no care for animals them themselves are animals for this!!!!
and as far as signatures right now as of 1:45 pacific time there are 2019321

[Kirsten]

this man needs to be shown as "art" and suffer with food about 20 feet away from him see if he likes slowly starving

I totally agree!!

Kirsten

[pepper636]

2021030 Signatures Total

[lizbud]

Thank you for removing the pictures.


Gini, in the link you provided, it almost seemed like this was all a staged
event calculated to provoke strong emotions and the dog was not really
starved to death.

[Catty1]

http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/s...ad.php?t=85737

Starved to death dog art was a hoax!
I expect alot of you saw the story of the dog in Costa Rica that was reportedly tied up and starved to death by an artist. Well, new sources now say that this was a stunt aimed at showing what "hypocritical sheep" people are. The dog was apparently fed and watered while in the gallery and was let back onto the streets at the end of the photo shoot. Story here:

http://thepetextraordinarium.blogspot.com/

Now I know that this was not a good way to get his message across and did not make very good art but it does go to show some things about people. How many have signed a petition against the Costa Rican government for letting this dog and others like it starve on their streets? When you bring that same dog into a gallery then nearly 1 million sign against it.

Vargas, 32, said he wanted to test the public's reaction, and
insisted none of the exhibition visitors intervened to stop
the animal's suffering. He refused to say whether the animal
had survived the show, but said he had received dozens of
death threats.

Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Códice Gallery, insisted
Natividad escaped after just one day. She said: 'It was untied
all the time except for the three hours the exhibition lasted
and it was fed regularly with dog food Habacuc himself brought
in.'

And this with some more links:

http://marielouiseplum.blogspot.com/...y-confirm.html

[Medusa]

Real or staged, just knowing that someone could think of something so cruel in the name of art or anything else is sickening. I don't know how much of this kind of stuff I can take.