This is sick.

In 2007, Costa Rican "artist" Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery in Honduras, and starved 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. And now 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.

If you'd like more information and to sign a petition to stop this from happening again:

[Go here and here]

The photos are pretty sickening, even to those of us in the unwanted animal biz who have to see sick, starving and dying animals every day. How anyone could have passed by and not given that poor dog a bowl of water and some food is beyond sick.

Thank you.

I can’t help but echo Jonah Goldberg’s opinion that we should try this with Guillermo Vargas Habacuc instead of some poor animal. But this sort of cruelty makes me wonder if perhaps we’ve found a new line of defense for Austria’s Josef Fritzl. I can hear it in court: “It wasn’t rape, false imprisonment, and unspeakable evil, your honor – it was ART!”

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