Mamdani’s NYC DOH ACC Starts '26 With Medical Torture Killing
Meanwhile, a lawmaker who could stop cat and dog culling statewide, but won't, will waste space in Albany for another year.
The Scoop New York is a website and newsletter covering the movement for a true no-kill New York State, from BUF to BK. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.
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It’s January 10, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, New York Assembly Member Donna Lupardo announced she will not run for another term this year.
As regular TSNY readers know, Lupardo chairs the Assembly agriculture committee, which along with the Senate ag committee determines the fate of almost every companion animal-related bill in Albany. A Democrat based in Binghamton, Lupardo is known to New Yorkers as perhaps the single biggest obstacle to animal-friendly legislation in the state.
Biggest obstacle perhaps runner-up? Michelle Hinchey, Democrat from Kingston and Lupardo’s counterpart in the New York Senate.
Lupardo and Hinchey’s most consequential dereliction of duty in the companion animal space is joint opposition to the Shelter Animal Rescue Act, which would require New York kill pounds to offer death row cats and dogs to qualified rescues, rather than exterminating them.
SARA is revenue-neutral — it would cost taxpayers $0 — and should have been a slam dunk when it was introduced in 2021. It died because, rather than listen to New Yorkers who devote their wallets, purses and pocketbooks, along with most of their waking hours, to saving animals from kill pounds, Lupardo and Hinchey et al. obeyed the pounds and their enablers, all of whom have a personal interest in maintaining the status quo.
SARA opponents include the “shelter” personnel lobbyists/lawmaker patrons at New York State Animal Protection Federation and, naturally, the long-conners at ASPCA and Humane Society of the United States, which now calls itself “Humane World for Animals,” ‘cuz you gotta diversify these days and those high six- to seven-figure C-suite salaries and phat retirement plans and other gold-plated bennies ain’t gonna fund themselves now are they.
Lupardo will be shuffling papers in Albany for another year. Meantime, thanks to Lupardo & Hinchey’s refusal to support SARA, The Greatest Kill Pound in the World has the all-clear to abuse and torture and exterminate as many cats and dogs as necessary to satisfy the quota they set for themselves to avoid doing their actual jobs, insulated all the while by lies fed to New Yorkers via complicit media.
Ten days into his term, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has yet to name his health commissioner, a curious development that temp commish Dr. Michelle Morse — to the extent she thinks about ACC at all — must figure is unrelated to the ongoing scandal that is the abattoir she supervises, since her ACC goon squad spent the holidays as they abnormally do: inflicting suffering and death upon literal puppies and kittens in exchange for money, as terrorized New Yorkers look on.
So apparently confident is Morse that the political posturing part of her job will render irrelevant the perpetual bloody horror she permits at ACC (again, to the extent she thinks about it at all) that the first known “care center” extermination of 2026 was a spay-neuter-kill victim.
In addition to poor Tyrone — admitted, cut open by sawbones DVMs (if not aspiring-sawbones vet techs), overdosed with human-grade sedatives, poisoned until dead — over the past few weeks DOH/ACC put to death the following dogs they were entrusted to care for:
Christmas: Dumped by owner three times, at ACC 20 days before extermination
Arrow: Described by volunteer as “utterly adorable”; exterminated after 25 days
Pepper: Admitted with sibling Brownstone; exterminated after 18 days
Tiberius: Admitted to ACC with facial wound; exterminated after 25 days
August: Found with wounds and lacerations, tied up with Arden (also on the kill list until he got a foster); exterminated on day 13
Brownstone: Admitted with sibling Pepper; exterminated after three weeks
Jazzy J: Year-old “beautiful boy”; sickened with kennel cough and diarrhea; exterminated
Phoenix: Exterminated after 18 days
Peanut Butter: 6 years old; “friendly,” “loves his squeaky toys” so much ACC declared it a behavior issue; exterminated
Jovie: “Spirited,” “smart”; exterminated after nine days
Baklava: “gentle,” “affectionate,” “an angel”; exterminated
Sasha: 1 year-old puppy; exterminated after 19 days
Bunnyrabbit: “Emaciated [with] muscle loss”; exterminated after 4 weeks because ACC “didn’t like that he wouldn’t stop jumping up for treats”
Bennett: “Highly fearful,” “wants love and security,” “is ready to trust”; exterminated after three weeks
Bruce: “Had enlarged lymph node, diarrhea, CIRDC [kennel cough] that turned to pneumonia”; exterminated after 19 days
Barker T: Admitted when owner died; exterminated after 23 days
Murph: “Abandoned,” “entered [ACC] nervous but [with] wagging tail,” “social,” “leans in for pets,” “LOVES toys”; exterminated
Sargento: 1 year-old puppy; “volunteer favorite,” “everyone’s dream boy”; exterminated
Zo Juniore: Abandoned by family who left the country; “friendly, active and playful,” “loves bath time [and] chasing tennis balls”; exterminated after three weeks
Bingo: 1 year-old puppy; neutered despite CIRDC suspected in pre-op exam, “then put in ISO for CIRDC”; “Trazadone on intake despite owner saying no behavior issues”; exterminated
Mudpuppy: “Playful,” “high energy,” “exuberant”; exterminated after four weeks
As you can see, at DOH’s ACC “the banality of evil” is not just an expression. It’s a lifestyle.
Someday, as soon as the TSNY balance sheet allows, we’ll go deep on DOH/ACC’s cat victims, largely neglected on TSNY due to the laws of physics and constraints of space and time, and who by all accounts have it worse than the dogs.
Until then, if you’re a constituent, Mamdani says he would like to hear from you. You know what to do.
Here’s the latest New York companion animal news:
You can love companion animals or you can love watching their adoptive families terrorized and shot down in cold blood by the government, but not both.
State legislators are back in Albany as Governor Kathy Hochul and her declared election opponents prepare for a year of vomiting “affordability” propaganda while doing actually nothing for the well-being of companion animals or the New Yorkers who bankroll their care statewide.
“Mamdani on Friday announced a new office of ‘mass engagement’ that he said would seek input from New Yorkers and shape his administration’s policies.” Guess we’ll see won’t we.
New York Focus dropped a bombshell report on state regulators willfully ignoring FBI “evidence on horse racing’s largest doping ring,” and what do you know: New York lawmakers are in on it.
We can think of a few reasons why Town of Hempstead Supervisor John Ferretti would prohibit dogs at his corrupt TOHAS kill pound from leaving the premises — ever — and “protecting the public” or whatever flatulence Ferretti excreted from his face hole isn’t one of them.
Before moving on to his next grift Eric Adams issued an executive order requiring horse carriage operators to have horses examined by a veterinarian or else lose their license to work them to death.
Flatbush Cats produced a podcast about “urban crises and their relationship to cats on the street.”
DOH/ACC and the drooling dipshits who run every other NY kill pound are surely inoculating their charges against dog flu, since withholding veterinary care would be rank animal cruelty of the sort that never happens here.
Finally, Strong Island Animal Rescue badasses saved dozens of domesticated rats from a Rocky Point home and needs assistance from “experienced rat rescues” and goddamn if I don’t love me some New York.
Food recalls
FDA recently announced two pet food recalls:
Gold Star Distribution, Inc., “multiple brand names” [salmonella, “presence of rodent and avian contamination and insanitary conditions during the storage process”]
Country Vet Biscuits for Dogs [salmonella]
Check here for more info on FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on prior FDA advisories and outbreaks.