

Codi Wilson, CP24.com





A kitten is recovering in the care of the Toronto Humane Society after it was thrown from a moving car on Highway 427 last week.

Mandi Howard said she was driving on the highway last Wednesday when she saw someone in a car ahead of her throw what she assumed was garbage out of their window.

As she got closer to the object, she said she saw fur blowing in the wind and she decided to pull over to the shoulder of the road to check it out.

“I started walking toward this tiny little thing … traffic was whipping by me,” Howard, a local emergency room nurse, told CP24.com Sunday night.

“I had to be safe if I was going to rescue him… I had to make sure that other cars were safe as well.”

When she saw a lull in traffic, she said she scooped up the kitten, wrapped him in a blanket and rushed him to the Toronto Humane Society.

When the eight-week-old kitten arrived at the shelter, Makyla Deleo, a spokesperson for the humane society, said he had suffered abrasions on his body, was bleeding and had broken toes on both feet. He also needed to undergo surgery to repair a serious laceration on his lip.

“I’ve been at the Toronto Humane Society for six years now. We see some pretty unfortunate things at the shelter but this one was above and beyond anything I had seen or heard of,” Deleo told CP24.com.

“It boggles your mind. You can’t actually believe that somebody would be able to do something like this.”

The kitten, which employees at the shelter have named Pedro, will stay at the humane society until he has fully recovered, which is expected to take at least a couple of months. Howard said the vet who performed the surgery volunteered to foster the kitten while he heals. When the kitten recovers, Howard said she plans to adopt him.

An Indiegogo campaign has also been launched to raise money for the kitten’s medical treatment and so far, more than $4,000 has been raised.

Any additional funds will be donated to the humane society, Howard said.

Both the kitten and Howard are expected to make an appearance on CP24’s Animal House Calls on Tuesday night.