Breaking: NYC Pols Declare Selves Concerned About Dogs
Electeds indifferent to NYC's perpetual dog (and cat) killings are performatively outraged after a dogs-on-dog attack.
The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to companion animals and the New Yorkers who care for them, from Buffalo to Brooklyn. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were nonetheless exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.
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It’s May 9, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, a chihuahua mix named Penny is recovering after she was attacked by two large dogs on the Upper West Side last weekend.
Reports say 10-year-old service dog Penny was walking with her person, Lauren Claus, Saturday evening when the attack occurred at 86th Street and Columbus Avenue. Rather than help Claus and bystanders as they struggled to free Penny, the man walking the larger dogs, described as “pit bulls,” reportedly “smashed the phone of an eyewitness who was filming the brutal at…
