Today in Spain: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday

Video of dog chasing after owner after being abandoned goes viral

A video of a dog chasing after his owner’s car on a highway, moments after he’d reportedly abandoned it, has gone viral in Spain.

The incident, filmed by drivers behind the animal on the vehicle on a motorway in Mojacar in Almería, shows how the small dog races behind the car until the vehicle eventually stops.

The witnesses, heard in the background calling the man a “son of a bitch” in Spanish, have reported him.

Local daily La Voz de Almería has found the man in question, who claims that he had not abandoned the pooch at all, and had in fact adopted him just a month ago, but that the dog had escaped the farm where they live just 200 metres from where the video was shot.

Spain has the highest rates of animal abandonment in Europe with at least 300,000 cases a year.

Finding out who caused Spain’s blackout to take ‘several months’, govt warns

Spain’s Socialist-led government has warned that it will take "several months" to complete the report on who was responsible for last week’s massive blackout.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will appear in Congress this Wednesday to report on the blackout, but he does not plan to offer any conclusions about the causes.

According to La Moncloa, the investigations to determine the cause could take three to six months and he has already announced that until then they will not rule out any hypothesis.

Spain wants to end automatic renewal of online subscriptions

Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs wants to end the automatic monthly debiting of products such as Spotify, Amazon, Netflix as well as video games, other streaming subscriptions and all kinds of apps.

Their goal is to require companies to give consumers 15 days' notice so they can communicate their intention to not renew and be aware of when the monthly subscription is due to end.

The law also seeks to ban companies from using only automated customer service and require them to ensure that 95 percent of calls are answered within three minutes.

BBVA’s Sabadell takeover bid open to public consultation

Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo has launched a 7-day public consultation to allow citizens and all types of entities to comment on BBVA's intended takeover bid of Sabadell Bank.

This will give everyone the time to give their opinions on the extent to which the operation may affect the public interest and them personally.

Although its outcome will not be binding, its objective is to gather all the necessary information to make a complete assessment of whether or not to refer the transaction to the Spanish Council of Ministers.