The dog, who has been named Florence, had a closed eye when she was discovered and a cut to her face. She was left in a filthy wet crate wrapped in plastic, which had no bedding and was filled with faeces.
Florence was discovered on Sunday night in an alleyway near Florence Road. Vets at the RSPCA’s Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital found a dead puppy inside her ruptured uterus.
Emergency surgery was needed to save Florence’s life. If Florence was left any longer she would soon have died a ‘horrible death’, the RSPCA said. ‘Poor Florence has been through a heartbreaking ordeal, but despite it all she has still been friendly, even though she is so poorly,’ a hospital spokesperson said.
‘When I first picked her up she was covered from head to toe in faeces and smelled so awful. ‘You couldn’t actually tell what colour she was meant to be.