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Dana Madalon has seen a number of abused and neglected animals, but few have been in as bad shape as Jerry.

Jerry is a white toy poodle, about 8-10 years old who weighs 9 pounds.

He came to the Sauk County Humane Society, of which Madalon is executive director, after someone threw him out of a truck last week, and left him along Highway 12 near the unincorporated settlement of Bluffview and the old Badger Ammunition Plant, between Sauk City and Baraboo.

According to Madalon, anonymous witnesses told Humane Society officials they saw someone open the passenger-side door of a pickup truck and throw the dog out on the side of the road.

The dog had been on the roadside — apparently waiting for its owner to return — for at least 24 hours before a passerby on June 11 found him and called the Humane Society.

“Somebody saw it,” Madalon said, “but nobody did anything — until a Good Samaritan drove down the highway and saw the dog.”

Madalon said the Good Samaritan did the exact right thing — stayed with the wounded animal until someone from the society could get to the site and pick him up.