One of Buenos Aires's most distinctive sights is the paseaperros: the dog-walkers.
The conurbation has a population of around 13 million - more than London - and they're just as keen on pets as Londoners.
And for all those who have dogs but live in flats and have busy city jobs, the paseaperros are there to exercise their companion animals.
Stroll around the parks'n'museums area of Recoleta and you'll see plenty of them, taking a friendly pack of hounds round in a fistful of leads.
The well-behaved dogs, mostly strapping biggish breeds such as labradors and alsatians, certainly seem to enjoy it - a social outing for them, no doubt - and in some of the parks you'll see them let off the leash and doing what dogs do.
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