Forest Hill woman Renai Kneebone rescues a cat after it was tossed from the window of a moving car

"I was driving down Inglewood Road along the 100km section and I saw about two cars ahead of me, someone toss a kitten out the window," Ms Kneebone said.

"I gasped and hit the brakes. My daughter asked me what was wrong. I got out and went to find him."

After some searching, Ms Kneebone found the six-week-old ginger kitten dazed and injured in the grass a few metres from the road's edge.

"He had a broken leg and a gash on his face that was bleeding, he was obviously in shock too," Ms Kneebone said.

She took the cat home and kept it warm overnight to see whether it would survive the fright of what it had endured. When it did, Ms Kneebone took it to the vet the following day for x-rays.

"He had a displaced femur [so] the vet gave me five days pain relief and told me it would be $1600 for surgery," she said.

"I don't have that money lying around especially for a cat I can't keep so my original plan was to give it five good days and then have it euthanised."

But in conversation with her sister, Ms Kneebone decided to start a GoFundMe to crowdfund for the kitten's surgery.

"That raised what was needed very quickly, we had about $1500 in 48 hours," Ms Kneebone said.

The strength of the community's outpouring returned Ms Kneebone's faith in humanity.

"I was so angry with the world after what I saw, I was so angry that someone could be so cruel and that I would be left in this horrible situation trying to decide what to do with this cat," she said.

"But then the GoFundMe blew up and it reminded me that actually horrible people are the minority."

Having now exceeded its target the crowdfunder has remained open and active to raise more money for the cat's eventual vaccinations.

"If there's anything left over after that, the money will go to Best Friends Pet Rescue," Ms Kneebone said.

Given all the kitten has been through now, Ms Kneebone chose to name it 'Viserion' in reference to the dragon in Game of Thrones.

"I thought he could use a bit of dragon power," she explained.

Now on the waiting list for his surgery, once a pediatric vet becomes available in Wagga, the plan is to find Viserion a permanent home as soon as possible.

"We're hoping the surgery will be before the new year, then he'll have two weeks recovering with me and then we'll look for a new home," Ms Kneebone said.

"His fourth leg will never be 100 per cent, but he's learnt to walk on the other three and he seems to be doing well even before the surgery."