Distressing video shows the moment when an RSPCA officer found the body of a starved dog - with chewed up toothbrushes in her stomach - wrapped in an old duvet.
A four-month-old kitten is believed to have been thrown out with household rubbish with his legs ‘deliberately broken’.
The RSPCA is urging the government to keep its promise to ban imports into the UK of dogs with cropped ears
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