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It’s July 10, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s kill pound is threatening to execute the hostages.

Disclaimer: The info in today’s column, like much DOH/ACC coverage on The Scoop New York, is largely based on information from advocates on the front lines. This is because the advos and rescue networkers know the operation better than anyone. And because unless you as a journalist are satisfied by whatever pre-packaged happy talk statements New York City officials fling in your direction, those officials are not engaging you if they can help it, mealy-mouthed pants-soiling cowards that they are.

What we’re discussing today is a developing situation, which makes it even less likely those paid to answer to the public will actually do so. This is SOP for state officials as well, of course, as we will see.

Here is what we know.

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On May 20, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) made what was apparently its first inspection of Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic] since new state animal shelter standards took effect last December.

As previously reported in this space, the new regs were approved by Albany in 2022 as the Companion Animal Care Standards Act. Shelters and rescues large and small were given three years to come into compliance. Yet the largest, wealthiest of them all — under begrudging semi-supervision by the city health department — still managed to get caught flat-footed.

The 19 of 50 areas in which inspectors found ACC “deficient” included the failure to produce protocols for more than a dozen categories, namely:

According to NYSDAM, though, by the time department inspectors returned on May 29, ACC had achieved complete compliance.

When, among other questions, The Scoop New York asked NYSDAM exactly how ACC had accomplished in nine days what it couldn’t pull off in three years — if not the preceding three decades — there was no reply.

Another deficiency noted on the May 20 report and ostensibly corrected in time for the follow-up was inadequate housing. “More animals than housing units,” the initial report said.

Under the new rules, portable crates do not count as housing. Yet earlier this week, advocates alerted on social media that ACC was holding dozens of dogs — 70 was the number we were told — in pop-ups. Caught flat-footed yet again, ACC is currently scrambling, reducing adoption fees and offering $1,000 stipends to rescues that take dogs off the city’s hands.

Ominously, according to networkers, ACC announced a July 15 deadline for dogs in crates to clear the system. Given 31 years of perpetual adoptable cat and dog killings, it is more than reasonable to interpret a deadline as a threat to slaughter those left behind.

DOH and ACC flacks may as well have acknowledged as much when they declined to answer The Scoop New York’s request to confirm or deny. If history offers any indication — and in ACC’s case, it hasn’t failed yet — Dr. Brennen’s death squad is licking its collective chops.

“Networkers think that once the 15th arrives, they will simply shuffle the dogs around to decide which ones get killed,” one source told TSNY.

Why July 15? Might the deadline originate from NYSDAM? We know NYSDAM is aware of the pop-ups, because I told them. A second email query to NYSDAM was ignored, same as the first one. As of publication time a phone message left with the ag department press office this afternoon was not returned. See what I mean?

Below is a list of dogs believed at this writing to be illegally housed in crates at Zohran Mamdani’s high-kill kill pound. Check NYC ACC KILLS social media feeds for images and intel, or NYC ACC to foster or adopt — though good luck with the latter.