Headlines from Buffalo to Brooklyn
It’s October 24, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, The Scoop New York discovered that Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic] is concealing extermination data from New Yorkers, making it impossible for the people who bankroll ACC to know how many homeless cats and dogs are arbitrarily killed in their names.
The data purge comes after The Scoop New York tracked and reported a sustained increase in ACC killings since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office in January. City Council Member Julie Menin, who took the helm as council speaker at the beginning of the year, has also willfully ignored the dirty business going down at the city kill pound.
After nearly 10 months in office, Mamdani has yet to publicly acknowledge his responsibility for his city’s homeless companion animals.
Watch the video for the lowdown on the city’s latest assault on its most vulnerable denizens and the New Yorkers who care for and about them.
P.S.: Apologies for the degraded picture quality. Substack was not in the mood today to produce an HD version.
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.
With the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter reportedly filled to capacity and plans for a new building still nowhere in sight, Mayor Sean Ryan — who campaigned on improving conditions for homeless companion animals — seemingly has no intention to protect those currently endangered by what Ryan himself described as his “kill facility.”
NYPD is looking for Chanel, a 10-year-old Yorkie snatched from her yard by two people in a Subaru near 130 Street and 14th Avenue in College Point, Queens.
As expected, the New York City Council voted to close the curtain on the city’s horse carriage trade. The vote was 40-7, with two absentions.
Related: The New York Post says Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin will “develop a transition team of advocates and experts to find new homes” for retired carriage industry horses. City Hall legitimately helping companion animals minus the usual underhanded fuckery? Stranger things have happened. Probably.
NYC Council Member Gale Brewer — fake Friend Of The Animals and IRL buddy to city kill-pound sadists — thought it would be cute to post a photo of a mouse caught in her office so she could announce that her staff took it to Wild Bird Fund “for their use as appropriate.” Birds of a feather etc.
Nice work, Mr. Mayor! Now do the cloistered, ossified, NYer-hating NYC ACC board of directors.
Related: Mamdani’s NYC ACC, which under direction from the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene routinely insists it has all the resources it needs, is nonetheless leaning on the generosity of private citizens for basics such as “toys, blankets, beds and treats” for dogs in the city’s alleged care.
Locals say Lollypop Farm, which is responsible for cruelty law enforcement in Rochester, took over a month to act on the reported abuse of a dog who was finally removed from the alleged abuser’s custody after a recording of the dog’s cries was posted on social media. No arrests were immediately made.
Another week, another county — Yates this time — adopting its own abuser registry in lieu of action by Governor Hochul and state legislators.
Columbia-Greene Humane Society is the latest victim of state lawmakers’ failure to provide shelters with funding to care for animals — in this instance up to 64 cats — seized during cruelty investigations.
Finally: A new facility in Colonie will train dogs to help veterans and first responders with PTSD because dogs are magic.
From NYC ACC KILLS
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.
