I checked out the other thread after my last post and was somewhat relieved to hear that possibly the dog was only on "display" for a few hours and was fed and watered and allowed to roam freely during the other hours and that he "escaped" back to the streets the same night. I forwarded that website to my aol friends as well. Hopefully, he was trying to bring awareness to the plights of the starving dogs in Nicaragua and that would be a good thing but the whole exhibit makes me sick. I much rather read about the soldiers in Iraq who arrange to have the strays they care for shipped back to the states.