Seville – podencos for hire for hunting!

I’m still stuck in the UK because of snow, and struggling to post. Here’s a story I received earlier this week, emailed on to associations I hope can help, and now post you the story. Apologies though, as I’m using a computer which won’t allow me to post pix.

‘On January 6, 2013 I drove with my husband and adopted dog (from a perrera near Malaga, ‘El Paraiso’) from Tarifa to Seville, and on to Cordoba.

We stopped at a rural restaurant for coffee where I became aware of a whole lot of dogs crying somewhere in the vicinity.

I followed the sound to a path behind the restaurant where I found around 20 Podencos in a concrete shed full of excrements, and on very short metal chains. I could not see any water or food bowls.

One part of the shed had a tiny subdivison in which a mother dog and her puppies lived, with not even enough room to properly turn around.

The stench was abysmal.

There were also two dogs running around on the roof of the restaurant building.

Now the restaurant rents out these dogs for hunting, for EUR 100 a day (see the flyers attached to the restaurant’s entrance, photos attached).

Since I am back in the US, would somebody be able to pay a visit to the restaurant and put in a report with the appropriate authorities, please?

Here are the details:

Nacional 375 Sevilla – Costa del Sol, km 67, entre Villamartin y Montellano.

Restaurante “Venta El Palancar”, tel 95 589 82 41