El perro - a seemingly essential accessory for the Porteño. The photos above depict a typical Buenos Aires eccentricity - El Paseoperro (the Dogwalker). It is not unusual to see young men and women walking the streets with large bunches and not so large bunches of dogs. Dog walking is a very serious profession. The serious paseoperro also grooms the dogs and looks after their health as well as taking them for their daily walk. The paseoperro is usually a veterinary student and it seems that seniority is shown by the amount of dogs in your group. I have seen some walkers with more than 20 dogs in tow. You cant help but wonder why they dont get all tangled up with each other, but its amazing - they dont - they just all walk along calmly like brothers down the street.
Porteño s love their dogs and in winter time a lot of their four legged friends stroll down the streets wrapped in their dog coats or other funny pieces of winterwear.
I went for a lengthy walk through Palermo and Barrio Norte today - cats and dogs seem to be the theme of my pictures. I walked through one park that had the most incredible amount of stray cats. They were all reasonably fat so I dont know who feeds them, but there were at least 50-60 in the small part of the park I walked through. I took a particularly nice photo of one of them drinking from the fountain.
Check out more photos of dogs and cats down the side of the blog.
2 comments:
So many cats and dogs - hell on earth in my opinion! Those dog walkers must be insane! Need to cull those stray cats ha ha. Who picks up all the do-do's I wonder?
Hey chicky, you resally want to know who picks up the do-do....lets just say this, you dont look straight ahead when you are walking around BA - you look down to check that therfe is nothing to put your foot in.
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