PROTESTERS were yesterday demanding answers over what happened at an animal rescue centre near Abingdon after 78 pets were seized.
About 20 people gathered with placards outside Crunchy’s Animal Rescue Centre in Longworth.
Officers from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) seized 78 animals last month and the bodies of a horse and a domestic rabbit were found at the site at Wheybread Cottage, Faringdon Road.
The animal charity received reports from concerned members of the public before the swoop and animals removed included dogs, horses, goats, cats, chickens and ducks.
But protester Kathy Clements, from Border Collie Spot Rescue, wants to know why the centre was not raided before.
She said: “It shouldn’t happen and I can’t believe it happened so close to a public footpath.
“How nobody had seen the conditions there and not reported it I cannot believe.”
The RSPCA said it is unable to reveal whether anyone had been arrested or interviewed under caution. It also said the results of an investigation into the state of the centre, also known as Crunchies Rescue, could take months.
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