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| Playa de Muro Travel Guide: Horse and Carriage Drivers
| | Written by Stephen Mayers on 01 May 2008 about a trip in May 2008.
| Playa de Muro nightlife | | | Give the English bars a wide birth, and call in at the Nuevo Rancho Restaurant Bar and say hello to Antonio and all the staff there. And don't use the horse and carriages, by doing so you are advocating animal cruelty. |
Playa de Muro day trips | | Just one last point about the horse carriages, that is VERY IMPORTANT, I'd also like to let you know of the nightmare we had with one the horse and carriage drivers outside our hotel in Playa de Muro, Alcudia. One of the drivers had 2 dogs with him every day, and they were clearly his, and he cuddled them and played with them. One of them got run over on the busy road, I saw it from our 3rd floor balconey and as he made no move to help it, I ran down and by that time someone else had moved the dog. I found it, it had a broken leg and was bleeding heavily, the owner said he had called the vet, and it would be here in an hour, I argued with him, watched by a group of disgusted tourists, and I even asked for him to give me the dog and I would take it to the vets at no cost to him, but he refused. He poured a bucket of cold water over the dog, which screamed, so I got my hotel manager to tell him if he did not take it to the vets I would call the police.After stating in Spanish, that it was "uneconmical to take it to the vets", he put it back in the carraige and set off, I asked my husband to get in the car and follow him, my husband caught the heartless cretin about to throw the dog in the canal to save himself 20€ in vet fees, my husband stopped him, and then told him to go to the vets, 2 min drive away, he went past 2 vets, and then tied the dog up outside a hardware store in Peurto Alcudia. My husband went to the store and a woman came out and claimed she was a vet!!! and that there was no problem, She sold nails and screws for gods sake. My husband told her he had worked for the RSPCA, and that the dog needed a vet as it had a broken leg and possibly internal injuries, the carriage man and 3 of his mates returned and were threatened my husband. I was still in Playa de Muro, and when the police came the other carriage drivers ganged up on me and a girl who worked at the hotel, and told the police the dog was a stray and was not even injured, if this was the case why did he refuse to give me the dog to take to the vets? I asked the police to take me the 2 min drive to where my husband was being threatened, they refused and told me to tell him to call the police in the Port!!! What use they were is anybody's guess, and they said "Its only a dog". Yes but it was in pain and the tourists were disgusted by the blokes behaviour, but only after I waded in did some of them come to my aid when the other carriage drivers were shouting at me and threatening the hotel staff. If the bloke had just picked up the dog and gone when it had first happened, we would have been none the wiser, but he waited 3/4 hour, and only went after I threatened to call the police. We still do not know what happened to the dog, as the woman ran off and my husband couldn't follow, or call the police in time.
The carriage drivers are mostly Gypsy's, whilst I'm not racist against them, I do question their practises, the horses are outside the Lago Park hotel for 14+ hours a day, in all weather, with no food in that time, only a little water, they have no shade apart from a couple of trees, all for the sake of tourists having a carriage ride for 30 mins, its inhumane, and if they treat their dogs this way, how do they treat their horses when they are injured? They even have their horses shod by the farrier outside the hotel, not wanting to miss any tourists who may want to have a ride in their carriage. The carriage driver in question had no licence plate on his carriage until a few days later, the number being PM 199. The bloke is easily recognied, he's 25 - 30 years old, always has a little black dog with him, (until that gets knocked down, as it's never on a lead), he also has a small Mallorcan flag on the side of his carraige. We would urge ALL tourist not to use the horse and carriages, not only for the fact that the drivers/operators have little or no regard for their horses or dogs, or any other livestock for that matter, but because it's all in the name of the mighty Euro, let's not forget the fact that its highly likely that if you were invovled in an accident whist being carried in one of these contraptions, your insurance company are not likely to pay out and you would be left with an almighty medical bill. |
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