It Happened on Edwards Square

Walking home from my noon-time stroll with the pup, we happened upon this.  It appears to be the claw of some sort of chicken reptile, no doubt.  The scaly fingers, the pointy claws, the waxen yellow look of the skin.

Chicken Reptile Claw overview

When we first came upon it, I thought it was someone’s discarded root vegetable.  You know, when you go to pull your keys out of your pocket, your root vegetables sometimes fall out on to the pavement.  Then you end up at your bedside table later that night, pockets pulled inside out, wondering, “Where did I put my root vegetables?”  But I digress.

Chicken Reptile claw in foreground

On closer inspection, we determined that the translucent noodly parts were not a root system but some sort of chicken reptile ligaments.

Chicken reptile claw, palm up. I think.

And here’s what pushed it up over the vegetable category clearly into the animal, both the dog and the cat kept going back for another sniff.  They don’t do that for root vegetables.

I know downtown isn’t necessarily zoned for chickens, but what about chicken reptiles?