SIX dogs, one of them dead, have been found in a Worcester house after apparently being left uncared for for two weeks.

All but one of the dogs had apparently been kept in cages in separate rooms at the address in Dines Green.

The five dogs, two chihuahuas, a chihuahua-cross, a Yorkshire terrier-cross, and a bullmastiff, and the body of the dead dog, a Staffordshire bull terrier, were removed from the property by the RSPCA and the police last Wednesday. The RSPCA seized the animals under the Animal Welfare Act. A spokesman has since confirmed that investigations are ongoing.

A neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “The dogs were pure skin and bone. Watching them being brought out was the most upsetting thing I’ve ever seen. You could hear all the little dogs barking when you came outside.”

The RSPCA was called after someone went round the back of the address and saw the body of the dead dog lying in the kitchen.

The neighbour said the owner had rarely been seen at the address.

She said: “The last time she was there was when someone rang to say the police were there.

“She didn’t know the dog was dead, someone had to tell her.”

When the woman and her husband first got one of the Chihuahuas, who was just six months old, the neighbour said they would stand outside holding it waiting for people to comment.

But then she said they never saw the dog again.

“You never saw the dogs being walked or anything,” she said.

“I never saw them until I saw them being brought out.”

A spokesman for West Mercia Police confirmed they received a call at 12.47pm on Wednesday, May 4.

She said that birds, reptiles and fish had also been found at the address.