Horrific - and I thought Damien Hirst was a bit of a wierdo! I wish I hadn't looked, I used to have a dog very similar to the one in the picture.
The thing is I just don't get it, even if you ignore the obvious cruelty how is it art? I know artists like to be controversial but this is taking things just too far. We know that there are a few sick individuals in the world but when that sick individual is applauded instead of castigated it makes you wonder about humanity in general. In a different country this monster would be locked up and given extensive phychiatric treatment - which is more compassion than he deserves.
I don't understand why no-one intervened - surely everyone who visited the gallery can't have thought this was acceptable? Or is everyone in that part of the world as sick as he is?
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