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It’s August 22, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, NYC ACC KILLS published the memoriam for adoptable cats and dogs slaughtered by Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic] in May.
With data indicating that killings remained higher for the fifth consecutive month compared to 2025, the latest NAK memoriam is reality’s response to New York City Council members after they again touted their compassion and magnanimity fOR ThE aNIMaLs.
Meanwhile, it remains unclear if Zohran Mamdani is aware of ACC’s existence, much less if the people’s mayor knows or cares about atrocities committed on his watch and in his name as his constituents look on in horror, with many New Yorkers paying for the privilege.
Roughly six months since its founding, the council’s so-called “animal welfare caucus” has succeeded in securing less than 1 hundredth of 1 percent of the massive city budget for spay-neuter and pet food pantry pilots — with no guarantee of future funding for any of it — while empowering pseudo-advocate schmoozers who are totes on board with ‘round the clock ACC carnage, and, as usual, shamelessly ignoring voices of dissent who have more than earned their place in line.
And so August 13 brought the non-event that was the caucus’ fall schedule reveal, a program so meager it had to be padded with NYC ACC mobile adoption events, which sporadic as they are were already a thing.
But wait, there’s less! Also on the 13th, the council celebrated the passage of its dogshit dog-shit campaign, which will likely do little to influence New Yorkers who aren’t already picking up after their pets and will definitely do nothing to improve conditions for the once and would-be pets at the city kill pound, who in May alone, among other abuses, were denied medication; denied medical care; disappeared for weeks before subsequent elective extermination; exterminated without being offered for foster or adoption; exterminated after being subjected to alteration surgery; and exterminated after being saddled with contemptuous, spiteful “names” like “Casserole” and “Coffee Grounds.”
There is less still, discussed on this week’s Death Row Show, clipped above, involving Mamdani’s first Mayor’s Management Report, which makes no mention of ACC — again, does he even know? — but duly updates New Yorkers on the city health department’s rabies prevention efforts, in keeping with DOH ideology that humans and animals should only interact with the aid of PPE or knife and fork.
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OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR NYC ACC OVERSIGHT
NYS Ag Commissioner Richard Ball: 518-457-2771; Email
Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Contact form
City Council Speaker Julie Menin: 212-788-7210; Email
Council health chair Lynn Schulman: 212-788-6981; Email
Comptroller Mark Levine: 212-669-3916; Contact forms
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams: 212-669-7250; Email
City Council members: Lookup
Borough presidents: BX; BK; MN; SI; QS
NYC DOH Commissioner Alister Martin: 311; Contact form
NYC DOH ACC minder Corinne Schiff: 646-632-6496; Email
CHIEF NYC ACC VETERINARIAN
Robin Brennen, DVM: Email
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.
Saratoga County Animal Shelter — recently accused of abuse and neglect by former staff and volunteers — has shut to intakes due to capacity constraints.
State cruelty laws continue to be so weak they are barely enforceable, thanks to Governor Kathy Hochul and legislators who have for years declined to adopt legislation to strengthen them.
Related: New Yorkers are again calling on Albany to adopt a statewide abuser registry after a county-hopping former rescue owner convicted of cruelty allegedly violated the terms of her probation, which limit her contact with animals.
Related: If NYPD or Queens DA Melinda Katz investigated the crime(s) that preceded the discovery of puppies Poppy and Petunia in a Flushing garbage bin with their mouths wired shut (both dogs are said to be safe now), coverage of the case doesn’t mention it.
Related: A former NYPD officer was charged with felony cruelty after he allegedly shot and killed a 12-year-old dog who belonged to a local homeless man.
Related: “Arrests announced in 5 separate Monroe County animal cruelty cases”
Related: “Lollypop Farm looking for help identifying truck in kitten abuse investigation”
Related: Animal cruelty remains 100 percent legal in New York when it’s sanctioned by the government.
Negligence has again caused the horrific death of a police dog upstate.
Finally, here are two stories that probably won’t torment you the next time you’re tossing and turning at 3:00 in the morning.
Food recalls
FDA recently announced one pet food recall:
Fromm wet canned dog food [“potential metal contamination”]
Check here for more info on FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on prior FDA advisories and outbreaks.