Okay, okay, I get it...

... you don't want to see any more of my pictures of animals getting carved up. I understand. I'm not hurt at all.

So - for a change of pace I'll do some non-carved-up animal pics. (I swear to god I'll take pictures of something other than animals one of these days....)

So - typical B.A. dog. Well-cared for, lolling in a gorgeous square, seemingly all alone.


After a thoroughly mediocre lunch at a place called Sigi on Plaza Guemes (where the waiter was smarmy and kind of halfway felt me up), I headed over to the zoo where I saw:


The hottest polar bear I've ever seen (what must he do in the summer?);


Begging elephants (the zoo allows the kids to feed most of the animals this kibble stuff. I remember doing the same at the San Antonio zoo as a kid, but now it just seems to make the animals so sadly servile. Though it does make for some nice photos);

A gorgeous, but anxiously pacing tiger;


A very pissed-off looking monkey. Actually lots of pissed-off looking monkeys. And orangutans. And some sad-eyed chimps.

Honestly, these are more depressing that the cows getting cut up.