(23 May 2025)
ARGENTINA PETS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 13 April, 2025
1. Victoria Font and friends sing "Happy Birthday" to Venus, her dog, at Barto Cafe, a dog bakery and cafe
2. Font blows the candle for her dog and gives her some cake
3. Close of Venus
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Victoria Font, Venus’ owner:
"I feel that she’s very humanlike, she’s very humanized. I don’t know, I feel like she’s going to realize it’s her birthday and she’ll feel like the protagonist. She obviously loves getting attention."
5. Waiter serving customers and their pets
6. People and their dogs having tea
7. Dog eating a cake for dogs
8. Baked treats for dogs
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Victoria Font, Venus’ owner:
"Yes, older people, they don’t really get it much. They tell me, ‘No, it’s an animal, it shouldn’t sleep in the bed. It should be outside, it should guard.’ As for me, I don’t see it that way. To each their own, but for me, no. It’s as if she’s my daughter, it’s as if she’s my little human daughter. I treat her the same way."
10. People at the dog bakery
11. Dog with a tie
12. Photos of dog birthdays
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 5 May, 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcos Díaz Videla, a psychologist specialized in human-canine relationships:
"I believe that today we support bonding with animals. Traditionally, one might have questioned letting your animals on the bed, celebrating their birthdays, or what was called ‘humanizing’ them. Today, on the contrary, what’s questioned is having animals without forming family-like bonds with them."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 11 April, 2025
14. Carolina Morales holds her 4-month-old son Benjamin as her husband Alejandro Tirachini holds the family pet Thay
15. Dog Thay kissing baby Benjamin’s hand
16. Painting of a dog dressed to represent soccer star Lionel Messi holding the World Cup trophy
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carolina Morales, owner of Thay and mother to son Benjamin:
"For us, Thay is like another son, yes. In fact, during the pregnancy, we would tell him, ‘ Thay, you’re going to have a little brother, your little brother is coming,’ and we tell (our son), ‘Stay with your little brother.’ For us, it’s like that."
18. Thay and Benjamin on the sofa
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 11 April, 2025
19. Various of dogwalker León Sipes with dogs
20. Various of Sipes putting the dogs on the bus to take them to their homes
21. Various of Sipes driving a bus with dogs
22. Bus
23. Dog looking through the window
24. Dog owner receiving his dog and Sipes says UPSOUND (Spanish) "Thank you, have a good weekend."
STORYLINE:
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In Buenos Aires, pets are more than just companions — they’re practically family.
The Argentine capital now ranks among the global leaders in pet ownership per capita.
But as the love for dogs rises, the birth rate falls. New figures show a 6.5% drop in births across the country from 2022 to 2023, raising questions about changing priorities in a nation of growing four-legged families.
STORYLINE:
Party-goers clapped and sang as Venus, all dressed up for her birthday in a pink party hat, gazed at the candles flickering on her cake.
When the time came for her to make her three birthday wishes, as is traditional in Argentina, Venus’ owner, Victoria Font, intervened, blowing out the candles to a round of applause. Then her mixed-breed pooch enjoyed a slice of meat-flavored birthday cake.
AP video by Victor R. Caivano
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