Dogs Used by Drogheda Art Centre

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Drogheda Arts Centre is hosting an exhibition from 25th March 2009 which features two stray dogs that are on temporary loan to the artist from County Louth Public Dog Pound. For eight hours a day, each dog will be housed in a separate metal cage in the gallery space. The dogs will be moved out of the gallery every night and held in an unspecified location before being moved back to the gallery the following morning. After one month the the show will end and both dogs will be returned to the pound. No measures have been taken by the artist or gallery to guarantee their survival. The dogs psychological welfare is not a concern for the artist or gallery. They say that the dogs will receive food, water and shelter for the duration of the show and in their opinion this is adequate.

The EUs Treaty of Lisbon incorporates a regulation acknowledging the fact that animals are sentient beings and hence should not to be considered or treated as objects or products. As sentient creatures dogs are capable of feeling, fear, confusion and distress.

This abuse is going ahead in the name of art and Irish tax payers are funding it.

Please sign this petition if you think that the treatment of these dogs by Drogheda Arts Centre is unacceptable.

1083 Signatures

  • Rebecca Jameson
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    • What a disgrace! Shame on you Drogheda CC and the artist. Since when has animal abuse become art?
  • Anne Layde
  • Mark Stedman
    • Comments
    • a total disgrace
  • Kenneth Jackson
  • Sander Berghuis
  • Dervla Clarke
  • LIz Mc Donagh
  • val phillips
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    • i would like to see some humans locked up in a crate and see how they feel.... do they not think the dogs have had enough tumour in their life. ...terrible.....it should be stopped.
  • Maya Malone
    • Comments
    • abusing dogs is not art
  • john kaye
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    • they should stick the artist in the cage
  • Leona Brolan
  • Tom O'Sullivan
  • Joanne McGarry
  • John Redeyoff
  • nicky hooper
  • Jo Neylin
    • Comments
    • This is unacceptable practice. Please remedy before the opening.
  • simon keating
    • Comments
    • Dogs are for life, not for art!
  • Nathan Somers
  • Valerie Keogh
    • Comments
    • I think this should be checked with the ISPCA before going ahead
  • Estelle Morgan
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    • I am absolutely appalled. These dogs are victims as it is. Have a heart and conscience and if you don't have either, try and respect the wishes of those who do.
  • Lorna Evers
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    • Why has the pound agreed to this? This is similiar to a south american artist who used starving street dogs as 'art'. This is animal abuse & should not be allowed. Shame on you. This is NOT art!
  • Barbara Lee
  • Grania O'Hare
  • Janine Handy
    • Comments
    • Sickening
  • James Evers
    • Comments
    • Very cruel
  • Emer Sharkey
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    • Dogs are not 'objects without use'. So called 'art' like this is the 'waste product of man'. Stop using these poor creatures.
  • Carla Killeen
  • Brendan Bourke
    • Comments
    • Regardless of the need for artistic expression, this is wrong.
  • Dave O'Leary
  • Jose Cancela
  • carol
    • Comments
    • horrible :(
  • Beatriz
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  • Liz Nagle
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    • Perhaps the 'artist' and a friend could stand-in for the dogs!
  • Laura Broxson
    • Comments
    • Stop this exhibition now!
  • National Animal Rights Association
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    • Get those dogs out of there!
  • CAFT Ireland
    • Comments
    • Shame on everyone involved in this exhibition!
  • Mark Devlin
    • Comments
    • Shamelessly self indulgant, too far.
  • Dave Kennedy
  • klaudia drulis
  • fiona haughney
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  • Leo McKenna
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  • Donna M
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    • no living creature deserves such treatment
  • Aileen Galvin
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    • Is this what tax payers money is being used for, it's disgusting!
  • Oriana Corbett
    • Comments
    • I absolutely agree the dogs should be taken out of the show.
  • BARTOLOME gloria
  • frances morris
  • Helen Clinton Lall
  • Julia Feliz
    • Comments
    • This is quite disturbing. Instead of giving these dogs a chance to find homes, they are being used as objects and disregarded as living beings. They are NOT discarded objects/human waste as suggested on the Art Centre's description of this so called exhibit. This is NOT art and will never be art. You should be ashamed of yourselves for letting this so called artist to display these dogs like furniture. They are feeling breathing living beings!
  • Sarah Costa
  • Amy Scott