Photo by Kendra Srebro
We're getting inundated with sad animals news today. First, the above photo was sent to us by Kendra Srebro, who tells us this iguana was "spotted on Vandervoort Place between Flushing and Thames. Its eyes were closed and it wasn't moving. I was running to get the train to work so I didn't have time to inspect further... I'm worried it is still alive and its consequential low body temperature has just lulled it into sedation."
Then there is this parrot in Chelsea, who has been hanging outside this Craigslist poster's window, who writes, "He is small with bright orange head feathers, yellow feathers on his back and blue/green feathers at the end of his tail and wings. BEAUTIFUL bird, who is clearly used to people. He also has a metal ring on his left leg, not sure if that is important or means something? Animal Control will not pick him up and he is shivering."
And, to further break our spirits as we await what is surely End of Days, an otter carcass has been discovered on Staten Island. The SI Advance writes, "how a 25-pound North American River Otter made his way into Bloomfield waterways before being hit by a car is as much of a mystery as whether there are more otters playing and swimming in borough streams and estuaries." There hadn't been an otter sighting on record in New York City prior to this one.
[Insert a thousand sad face emoticons here.]
