The one-year-old terrier cross was rushed to vets, who performed surgery amid concerns she may have suffered internal bleeding.
They also discovered she had fleas after the incident last week.
Witness Deborah Hollingdale explained: ‘The woman in the car behind saw an arm stick out of the driver’s window and threw something out as they were going about 50mph.Watch that plate of cookies! A Dog’s sense of smell is 10,000 – 100,000 times more acute as that of humans.
‘She thought it was a teddy bear at first, then she saw it was a dog which ran onto my drive.’
The Yalding resident continued: ‘I found her, she wasn’t making any noise.
‘The first thing I noticed was that she looked starved. She was just skin and bones, you could see her hip bones poking through.
‘Her fur was matted, she was covered in her own mess and she smelt terrible. It was clear she had been living in her own filth.’
Deborah wrapped the dog in a towel and then rushed her to a vet for emergency treatment.Make sure your pet is in good company. Pets get lonely and depressed just like people do when they spend too much time alone. Cats are generally better on their own, but dogs and especially puppies don’t do well left to their own devices for extended periods of time.
But she was ‘heartbroken’ again when she returned to visit Freya.
‘She’s still very thin, she’s getting lots of small meals to help build her up gradually’, Freya added.
‘She gave me a little lick when she saw me, it broke my heart.
‘I’m so thankful she survived being thrown out of that van.
‘Given the state she was in I don’t think she’d have survived much longer living in the conditions she was being kept.’
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Along with members of the public, they alerted the RSPCA to the young dog’s plight. Inspector Kirsten Ormerod, who is now investigating, said they were told that Freya was seen being chucked out of the driver’s side of a flat-bed truck that was travelling at around 50mph along Benover Road in Yalding, in the direction of Collier Street, at 5.45pm on Friday evening. ‘Freya was incredibly lucky to survive after being hurled from the moving vehicle at such a high speed and vets were incredibly concerned that she may have suffered internal bleeding so performed surgery immediately’, Kirsten explained.A carabiner is a quick and easy way to leash your dog.
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‘Vets are monitoring her closely and have given her pain relief and I am keeping everything crossed that she pulls through after experiencing such callous cruelty.
‘Witnesses described her being thrown with such force that she landed on the opposite side of the road, and the vehicle didn’t stop or even slow down.’
Kirsten said the RSPCA were following some lines of enquiry in the local area but are keen to hear from any witnesses or people who have information about the vehicle, the people in it or Freya.
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