An otter was left for dead after being hit by a car on a road near Kinross.
Ballo was struck by the vehicle just before Christmas, with motorists heartbreakingly driving over and past the poor animal before he was discovered by a member of the public injured on the roadside.
Noticing his head was moving and he was in fact alive, Ballo was taken to Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre where wildlife assistants were forced to sedate him as he was visibly distressed by the incident.
