Animal lovers throughout the world are sickened and 
outraged at how Costa Rican artist, Guillermo Habacuc Vargas took a dog from the street and used it as an art exhibit, causing it to suffer and starve to death in the name of art.
I’m not going to post any of the offensive pictures, but have included a snapshot of Eurodogtraining, who alerted me to this. And here is an online petition you can sign to try and stop this sick-minded man representing his country at an art exhibition in Honduras.
Here is Eurodogtraining’s protest letter which she and other angry animal lovers are sending to the organisers of the art exhibition:
To allow Guillermo Habacuc Vargas to represent Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 will in no way benefit Costa Rica. The world is watching, and the actions of this so-called artist have brought many negative assumptions as to the humanity of the people of Costa Rica. The fact that many witnesses of this animal’s suffering did nothing, and that the organizers of this event allowed this to happen, rather than taking action to see that Guillermo Vargas be criminally charged with animal abuse, is sending the world a message that Costa Rica is a cruel, uncivilized society that has no regard for life, but enjoys viewing and contributing to the loss of life.
Each and every person who knew of and witnessed the suffering of this innocent dog is guilty of causing its unnecessary death. To let this crime go unpunished, and instead to reward Guillermo Vargas by choosing him to represent Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 is unacceptable and shameful, not only to Costa Rica but to all participants in this event.
Please pass the word on to other animal lovers.
Thanks for highlighting this Ellee. How shocking - I agree with every word you say.
Ellee, so far I’ve recorded almost 1,000,000 hits to this article (unfortunately due to the timing the server went down after it hit). Of those, more than 20,000 have at least clicked the petition.
Thanks for doing your part to help spread the word. Hopefully with the proliferation of this article, we’ll get more to put name to paper to help voice objection to what was done.
Have a great day!
Ginnie
That is appalling. Thanks to you and eurodog for alerting us.
Ginnie, I can’t believe the number of hits you have had, that is staggering. I have a lot of catching up to do. Seriously, let’s hope that all these posts will help shame the artist who obviously has no conscience.
This is so horrible I cannot believe it. I have signed the petition of course.
I posted this story originally on October 16, probably one of the first blogs in the US to pick it up - Dead Dog as Art. My site is relatively small and I’ve had 10s of thousands of hits to it and hundreds of comments.
When I posted, the petition had less than 1,500 signatures, now it has almost 220K.
It amazes me how this has gotten around, the publicity it has generated. I am quite sure the ‘artist’ had no clue what he was starting when he paid those children to capture that sick and starving dog to display as a tribute to a criminal.
He’s gotten his notoriety alright but I most sincerely doubt this was quite the type of notoriety he was aiming for!
He has brought together the dog lovers and animals lovers and all those who abhor cruelty in a fight against his kind of ‘art’.
I cannot applaud more the efforts of everyone who has worked to get this story out and around. People need to know that this kind of atrocity will not be tolerated!
I agree.. its not art. its rubbish.
Thankyou to the many people throughout the world who have posted and protested this horrific animal cruelty and abuse, in a vain attempt to “cover the crime of abuse” as art, by this artist from Costa Rica and his followers.
Let the truth of the crimes committed by this artist as this ‘madman’ who cruelly killed this dog by starvation of food and water, in the name of art, be truthfully disclosed and never forgotten.
Please sign the petition and write letters of protest world-wide.
We the People in the United States of America are very concerned about this dog nightmare.
http://animalsclubfreedom.us/
We are a sick people…
I seem to be slipping into animal ethics lately. It is a new twist for the blog but old hat for me. I’ve long felt deeply the words of the prophet, “L’enfer, c’est les autres”. Small furry critter, though, that is another story.
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Ellee: Is the picture of the artist? Or of the owner of Eurodogtraining who have the picture where a profile pic would normally go? Of course Damien Hirst made an exhibition out of dying butterflies. And I’ve heard of arguably more shocking things than this from artists in China and elsewhere including USA (Mexican artist).
I have also seen with my own eyes human beings considered beyond help left to die. Not by an artist or a gallery. But by an institution that had regular visitors so there is a parallel. No time to think enough to blog anything worthwhile about these things at the moment.
I still have a small hope that there is some artistic conceit for shock going on here and that Natividad is in fact alive and well in the barrio or on the artist’s luxury dog pampering farm. The way an artist could do this would be to rescue a dying dog, treat its ailments and feed it up to restored health. But show the documentation in reverse order.
It depends, how can they call this a sport?
este hombre es un impresentable y a el es el que habria que ponerle atado a una cuerda en una de sus exposiciones hasta que se muera de hambre, es tal mi indignacion que me da igual que se muera este hombre insensible y mala persona.
Now if only there was a petition for THIS kind of thing
http://www.theginblog.com/2008/03/the-war-we-all-lose-what-happens-when-the-internet-brings-us-the-unpatriotic-parts-of-the-war/
Be careful though, some of these videos are just extremely disgusting. Complete disregard for the dogs, people, and other animals in these videos
Maldito desgraciado… puto mal parido.. todo da vueltas muy pronto pagaras por lo que has hechos
desgraciado.. me das asco..
This man dares call himself an artist. He is nothing but a fraud. Everyone worth his or her salt should boycott him and spread the bad word about an extremely cruel person. A man like him is capable of the worst.
El tipo que presentan en la foto no es el “artista ” del que estan hablando
el muy cabron se llama guillermo vargas jimenez
a.k.a Habacuc y si te pones como pendejo a buscarlo en google te encuentras a cierto tipejo te convence la foto y la pones , el cabronazo tiene 33 años.
hijo de una puta madre
This is terrible, what is he going to do next?, leave a child starve to death so that we all can see with our own eyes the horror of the world we are living in?
This man is sick, Icannot beleaf it.
TO KILL A DOG IS NOT CONCEMPUAL ART
MATAR UN PERRO NO ES ARTE CONCEPTUAL
El supuesto artista ha dado mas de 3 explicaciones distintas sobre su performance. No es arte conceptual. Debes saber que quieres expresar con una acción antes de realizarla. No se puede dar excusas distintas según la crítica.
Tampoco es una acción transgresora, es un hecho frívolo y estúpido.
Si una obra de arte es ignorada, muere.
Esto no es arte, arte es construir algo bello, algo con que recrear la vista, el oido y todos los sentidos, usando nuestras manos,inteligencia, sensivilidad y poniendo en ello nuestra alma, esto es una abominacion tanto por el monstruo que lo hizo, como por los impasibles visitantes de la galeria que lo vieron sin inmutarse. hay que tener un alma muy negra y sucia para hacer esto
Menuda mierda de artista!!
fracasado que busca cualquier medio de llamar la atencion porque su “arte” es patetico
muerete ya payaso! y asi habra una alimaña menos en este mundo
cruel painful suffering is not art.
this is disgusting if any one thinks this ABUSE is art then they have a sick and twisted mind!!!!
I need to know +100% POSITIVE IF that picture - the man in hat with some sort of pass around his neck - IS Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. IF it is I plan to PLASTER IT EVERWHERE.
I am asking that everyone else does the same so that SOB will not know a moment’s peace for a long time to come.
It is time he ANSWERED for his WICKEDNESS.
Time TO STARVE the STARVING DOG ARTIST!!!