of birthdays and bleak days
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scottishlassEven though the sun is shining now for a short while, the whole morning it was bleak and grey. The light coming from the sun was yellowish .. almost like sulfur. It looked as if a thunderstorm was about to break.
Now the sun is shining from an almost pristine sky and yet there on the horizon the buioding grey towering clouds are already there.
Chica is sleeping - tomorrow will be her 10th birthday and I'm quite happy she made it this far though her lack of appetite and also her loosing weight worries me very much. Atm she has her ideal weight, but if she looses more than a kilo from now on, she'll need to eat more regularly. I'm really scared. I wish she could make it longer but I guess the end - as they say - is near. Our vet had mentioned that if she starts to eat less, we need to take masures. I have tried a lot of stuff and low and behold she ate bacon, cooked bacon and she ate some of her evening food. I just hope this is temporarily.
Anyone who has lost a pet knows how I feel. I am really torn between keeping her by my side a little bit longer and ending it all right now so she won't suffer.
And now for something completely different and so tasteless that when I heard of it for the first time I thought it was an urban legend. Unfortunately, that was not so. Read at your own risk as this post contains pictures of a poor badly abused creature
Last year in August the Costa Rican artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas created an installation in a museum with a living dog. The dog had been captured on the streets and Vargas had paid for it. He then chained the dog to one wall of the museum and on the other side of the wall he put dog food. Of course the chain was not long enough that the dog could reach said food. The dog starved to death ... and all for some questionable Art.
Not enough that this asshole got away with it once (not one of the museum's visitors really thought it was a living dog but animatronics) but now Vargas was chosen as one of the representatives of his country to take part in the Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 exhibition and he had the audacity to announce that for this year's exhibition he wants to re-create the same installation with another poor dog.
PLEASE HELP US STOP HIM!!! Sign the petition - don't let another dog die in the name of art.
I don't know what is going on in ppl's minds. Not only that we kill each other without so much as regret because of believes, land etc, but to use a creature that cannot stand up for itself to become an known name in the art world ... and ppl not doing ANYTHING about it!!! This is so sick.
Now the sun is shining from an almost pristine sky and yet there on the horizon the buioding grey towering clouds are already there.
Chica is sleeping - tomorrow will be her 10th birthday and I'm quite happy she made it this far though her lack of appetite and also her loosing weight worries me very much. Atm she has her ideal weight, but if she looses more than a kilo from now on, she'll need to eat more regularly. I'm really scared. I wish she could make it longer but I guess the end - as they say - is near. Our vet had mentioned that if she starts to eat less, we need to take masures. I have tried a lot of stuff and low and behold she ate bacon, cooked bacon and she ate some of her evening food. I just hope this is temporarily.
Anyone who has lost a pet knows how I feel. I am really torn between keeping her by my side a little bit longer and ending it all right now so she won't suffer.
And now for something completely different and so tasteless that when I heard of it for the first time I thought it was an urban legend. Unfortunately, that was not so. Read at your own risk as this post contains pictures of a poor badly abused creature
Last year in August the Costa Rican artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas created an installation in a museum with a living dog. The dog had been captured on the streets and Vargas had paid for it. He then chained the dog to one wall of the museum and on the other side of the wall he put dog food. Of course the chain was not long enough that the dog could reach said food. The dog starved to death ... and all for some questionable Art.
Not enough that this asshole got away with it once (not one of the museum's visitors really thought it was a living dog but animatronics) but now Vargas was chosen as one of the representatives of his country to take part in the Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 exhibition and he had the audacity to announce that for this year's exhibition he wants to re-create the same installation with another poor dog.
PLEASE HELP US STOP HIM!!! Sign the petition - don't let another dog die in the name of art.
I don't know what is going on in ppl's minds. Not only that we kill each other without so much as regret because of believes, land etc, but to use a creature that cannot stand up for itself to become an known name in the art world ... and ppl not doing ANYTHING about it!!! This is so sick.
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Date: 2008-03-04 06:56 pm (UTC)As for Chica - Una - I can so understand you. It is so difficult to see if they suffer silently or are still fine. I hope she can stay with you a bit longer - she looks quite fine on the photos. And at least you can be sure, that her last years with you were good years and she is loved.
All the best
A.
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Date: 2008-03-04 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-04 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-04 08:05 pm (UTC)Well I fed Chica with gekochten Schinken and she ate it. So she had that for dinner. Now I will be buying more tomorrow, perhaps she likes that better for now.
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Date: 2008-03-05 07:53 am (UTC)My thoughts are with you and Chica. I'm sure you'll do the right thing. *hugs*