There is a new poll on this subject that shows there’s a huge split in public opinion. Some people think the artist had a point, some people would just like to see him dead! The results and article are here: http://www.thepetextraordinarium.co.uk/page.asp?id=52

There is a new poll on this subject that shows there’s a huge split in public opinion. Some people think the artist had a point, some people would just like to see him dead! The results and article are here:

I am of the mind the “artist” should be jailed and prohibited from any contact with dogs in the future. I am not assuaged with this too late in coming report.

Original statement in his own words claim ‘that the dog would have died anyway’ which to me sounds like he admits that the dog did die. He also stated at the time of the exhibit that his ‘art’ was “a tribute to Natividad Canda, a Nicaraguan burglar killed in Costa Rica by two rottweilers guarding property he had entered at night.”

This statement was published in The Nacion, shortly after this became more publicized;

“The dog died after a day in the exposition, according to it was confirmed to The Nation Marta Leonor González, publisher of the cultural supplement of The Press in Nicaragua.”

This from ABC.es

“the known artist with the nickname of “Habauc” trapped a dog in a slum of Managua and he tied him to one of the walls of his demented assembly. Al following day the animal had deceased.”

Months after the incident, after numerous published accounts, all of the sudden the gallery comes forward with the story that the dog ‘escaped’ and that it had been fed regularly.

I guess almost 2.5 million signatures on a petition is making people think twice and do some serious CYA now but I’m not buying it.

I know this ‘hoax’ story coming out will salve the consciences of a lot of people who are just now hearing this story as it seems to have recently been hitting major media sources the past month or so but I’ve been following it for more than six months. I read many original accounts and reports about it. The more widely know this story had gotten, the more they, the gallery and ‘artist’, have tried to play it down.