First 100 Days: How Many Pets Will Mamdani's DOH NYC ACC Destroy?
Hint: It's a trick question.
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It’s March 13, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, following the New York City Council’s “animal welfare caucus” pronouncement, it was nevertheless business as usual at the city kill pound, operated for decades with the council’s blessing by the most vile and prolific companion animal abuser/killers in the state, if not the nation: the management and staff of the non-profit contractor currently known as Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic].
If you thought/hoped/prayed that caucus founder Harvey Epstein and Council Speaker Julie Menin had any intention of exercising their regulatory powers — that is, doing their jobs as City Hall overseers — to put a stop to the everyday torturing and killing happening now and always in their own backyards, well:
So much for Epstein and Menin and their council carcass caucus.
Mayor Affordability, meanwhile, continues to have nothing to say about New Yorkers doing NYC DOH ACC’s job for no pay. To the contrary, halfway through his third month in office, unless TSNY and our advocate A-listers somehow missed it (not likely), Zohran Mamdani has yet to publicly acknowledge his kill pound, or his responsibility to his city’s homeless companion animals, at all.
This leaves the unfortunate cats and dogs (and rabbits and guinea pigs) in DOH/ACC custody in the same position as ever: abandoned by duplicitous self-serving politicians and at the mercy of DOH/ACC defectives — New Yorker-hating ACC board members very much included — who get off on visiting pain and death upon those who can’t fight back.
You don’t have to guess how many frightened, hopeful, trusting, neglected, abused, battered, kicked, struck, cut, starved and sick homeless cats and dogs Mamdani’s DOH/ACC will choose to exterminate rather than rehome in the mayor’s first 100 days. Just multiply the number of intakes by .15 for cats and .25 for dogs, add the two products and you won’t be far off.
Month after month, year after year, the city “shelter” exterminates between one and two cats admitted, and two to three dogs, regardless of intake fluctuations. The kill quota — based on the amount of lollygagging DOH has determined ACC personnel should get by with — demands it.
The numbers are there for all to see:
If somehow DOH’s ACC took in but 10 cats and 10 dogs in a given month, bet your ass they would apply the needle to at least one of the cats and two of the dogs. Probably alter a couple or three and exterminate them during recovery, just for lulz.
When I say taxpayer-supported DOH/ACC staff get off on inflicting immeasurable pain upon animals and humans alike, I mean they get off on it.
This is tacitly or explicitly endorsed by Mayor Mamdani, whose interest in companion animals — same as every other elected official in New York State — begins and ends with his ability to use them for personal gain.
Sadly, self-aggrandizing rhetoric notwithstanding, Mamdani has thus far shown himself to be no more compassionate or moral than those who came before him, or those who will someday take his place.
The dead don’t lie.
Here’s the latest New York companion animal news:
You can love companion animals or you can love watching their adoptive families terrorized by the government, but not both.
Achtung Westchester County: “Rabid coyote attacks 3 people, 6 dogs in Eastchester and Bronxville area.”
Achtung everybody: “More ticks are carrying multiple diseases, including Lyme, study shows.”
Looks like you can add the horse carriage industry and literal animal sacrifices to the list of monstrous abuses Harvey Epstein and the NYC Council animal welfare caucus won’t be dealing with.
The reconstituted board at CNY SPCA in Syracuse is said to be getting stuff done a month after former leadership resigned en masse.
A new program to provide safe housing for victims of domestic violence in Rochester includes “animal care.”
Rochesterians are calling out Lollypop Farm for inadequate enforcement of cruelty laws following a recent incident when several dogs were discovered confined outdoors in “subarctic conditions.”
If you witnessed a couple publicly abusing a dog in East Williamsburg, near Morgan Avenue and Ingraham Street, on or about February 28, contact NYPD or ASPCA, which are reportedly investigating.
NYC ACC is providing stipends for post-adoption vet care, which is hopefully not the same “care” provided by the city’s “care centers.”
Finally: Turns out it doesn’t take a $1B contract to rehome animals who don’t fly off the shelf, just staff who aren’t malevolent dead-eyed freaks.
Food recalls
FDA announced no pet food recalls this week.
Check here for more info on FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on prior FDA advisories and outbreaks.