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[Seraphina]

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My daughter and her partner are traveling in South America, naturally, taking photos of dogs. Here is their blog, some may find it interesting.

http://jules.com.au/blog/

 

[Zephyr]

Fascinating - what an amazing trip she is having - what a lucky girl she is :thumbsup:

 

[kris]

i found this surprising tbh (the fact that people look after animals so well in south america)cos on a dog rescue site i go on someone posted this after seeing the story of a south american artist who starved a dog to death in the name of art. :angry: and noone seemed to be bothered about it. the replies to the post say that there are difficulties with prosecuting this as there is a hispanic custom of disregard to the welfare of animals.dont look at the pictures if youre easlily upset,they are quite distressing.but the dog was just one that the artist paid a group of children to go get out of the barrios. so can you tell us if the people of this country are animal lovers and this incident was just a one off or is it true that they do disregard animal welfare?looking at the pics and reading the blog now makes me wonder. :unsure:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?...hival=&posts=10

 

[Seraphina]

Here is the article;

 

the dog did not die because this man starved him, he was an old starved dog and he sadly died. As he would have died anyway, except if he died on the street nobody would have even noticed. The same people complaining would have walked right past this dog if he was on the street

A Costa Rican artist found himself in hot water with the animal

protection people in his home country after using a starving, sick

street dog as part of an exposition in Managua, Nicaragua, in August.

Guillermo “Habacuc” Vargas allegedly found the dog tied up on a street corner in a poor Nicaragua barrio and brought it to the showing.

He tied the dog, according to furious animal lovers, in a corner of the salon where it died after a day. Habacuc’s

exhibition included a legend spelled out in dog food reading “You are

what you read,” photos and an incense burner that burned an ounce of

marijauna and 175 “rock’ of crack cocaine. In the background, according

to reports, the Sandista national anthem played backwards.

Habacuc told the daily La Nacion,

“I won’t say the dog died. The importance to me is the hypocracy of the

people where an animal is the focus of attention where people come to

see art but not when it’s in the street starving to death.”

The artist apparently is unaware that at least three large, active

organizations are dedicated in Costa Rica to the protection of animals

and that several persons have been prosecuted for cruelty to animals.

They are hampered in their efforts by the old Hispanic customs of

disregard for animal welfare and by a lack of funding.

 

[kris]

yes i did read the article. :thumbsup: what im asking is are there laws in south america about animal cruelty and are they animal lovers as this article makes out that there arent and so i found it confusing?as your daughter is actually over there im wondering whats the facts?looking at her blog and at how homeless dogs are looked after by people who dont own the dogs it doesnt seem to ring true about the article about the dog thats been starved?if someone took a dog into an art gallery here that was dying of starvation and tied it up and used it as an 'exhibit' then thered be uproar.i see that it says there are 3 main animal welfare organisation there but are they going to bring charges i wonder and are there any laws that they could bring charges under anyway? :unsure: