no, it's not as bad as violence etc. against humans. but this is truly disgusting. a friend emailed this to me, so i'm posting it here directly from the email (i believe it's been translated from the original spanish):
"In 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.
(there's a video on youtube - i haven't watched it, but i couldn't reproduce the photos here:
)
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 VargasHabacuc 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 <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition-sign.html>
or
http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html <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."
cunt.