Gracie, our mascot, semi frozen but fine
January 20, 2010 by LuAnn Apple
Thinking about a Florida parrot rescue like M.A.R.S., iguanas might not be what comes to mind. Exotic bird rescue consists of many facets such as adoptions, rehabilitation, boarding, and daily bird care by great volunteers, and always, praying for donations. These are the things you would expect.
Well, with the recent cold, we experienced another dilemma added to our list of ever evolving tasks. How to extract our mascot Gracie from way under a wood deck and how to thaw her out once we achieved this.
With this said, take a look at the photos, and know that it took three days for her to be back to her old self. How we did everything is another story, for another time.
Gracie when first pulled out
First look around
Gracie, seven hours later, color returned to normal
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Thank God Gracie is OK. We were reading about how our reptilian friends were suffering in the cold weather there. We’ll see you next month!
when we had an iguana in Hialeah ages ago, my father set up a fairly large diameter steel pipe with caps on both ends and long incandescent light bulbs in the pipe -not too high a wattage. That heated up the pipe and the beast just loved to hug that on top in cold weather.
Glenn Crooks