A recent news story proves that shopping at Buenos Aires’ largest bazaar, La Salada, can be challenging even for native speakers.
Enticed by a rock-bottom price for what the vendor claimed was a toy poodle, a man from Catamarca bought a pair of the fluffy critters, only to return home, get the advice of a veterinarian, and discover that his pets were actually overgrown ferrets that had been prepped with steroids and creative hairstyling to look like poodles. Sort of. Read the article here and take a look at the pic above. Would you have been fooled?