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It’s September 6, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week at Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic] was not much different from any other.
That’s a problem. Or, at least, it should be, if New York electeds and the bureaucrats they oversee did their jobs.
Throughout its decades-long history, ACC has been insulated from the consequences of its own ham-fisted malfeasance by complicit city officials who ignore “shelter” carnage while cynically exploiting homeless companion animals to advance their political careers.
With no adult supervision to speak of, ACC personnel are free to rain terror upon the once and would-be family pets in their custody, who — despite new rules for shelters and rescues statewide — are still being crammed into pop-up crates; choked into unconsciousness while on walks; dosed and overdosed with human-grade sedatives; butchered during unnecessary and often dangerous medical procedures; and exterminated at the rate of one victim every three hours. Except when the pace of killings accelerates, that is, as it has since Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin assumed their current positions.
CACSA specifies permissible shelter building materials but does not address the wholesale slaughter of healthy and adoptable cats and dogs.
Article 26-C, also known as the Companion Animal Care Standards Act, was signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul in 2022 but didn’t take effect until last December, to give facilities time to comply with requirements related to everything from cleanliness and ambient temperature to enrichment and housing. However, as reported exclusively by The Scoop New York, a three-year grace period and tens of millions of dollars wasn’t enough for ACC and its health department chaperones to bring the city pound into compliance in time for its initial state inspection, which occurred in May.
When inspectors from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets made a follow-up visit nine days after recording 19 ACC deficiencies out of 50 applicable requirements, they said the “shelter” had raised that D- to a perfect score.
Assuming that’s true — that, as far as the state is concerned, ACC is doing everything by the book — then the book itself is worth about as much as Andrew Cuomo’s COVID autohagiography.
If you’d like specifics on what ACC has been up to recently — the subterfuge, the obfuscating, the chokings, the druggings, the medical neglect, the kitten obliterating, the expedited dog exterminations, and whatever sick shit they did to “Proximity” — we’ve got you:
ICYMI, this week’s NYC DOH ACC Puppy/Kitten Death Row Show covers the most recent Weekly Carnage (via NYC ACC KILLS).
As you watch and read up on some of the latest ACC assaults on fundamental decency — I say “some of” because the assaults are committed faster than we can keep up, and because they never stop — remember that every instance of abuse and cruelty is endorsed by city and state officials.
Some of those same officials rejected the Shelter Animal Rescue Act — which would require kill pounds to hand over to rescues animals they would otherwise destroy — in favor of CACSA, which specifies permissible shelter building materials but ignores the wholesale slaughter of healthy and adoptable cats and dogs.
Also:
The ACC dosings and overdosings, the silent killings and spay-neuter killings, the solitary confinements and near-strangulations — remain A-OK under Article 26-C.
Thanks to a convenient loophole, ACC and other facilities may continue to use pop-up crates freely.
Since CACSA was championed by the New York State Animal Protection Federation — a kill-pound lobby group that has the ear of state electeds, including the governor — Article 26-C does not require kill pounds to disclose their body counts to the public.
The Scoop New York asked ACC, DOH, Mamdani’s office, the Department of Agriculture and Markets, and NYSAPF to comment on the issues covered in this column. There were no replies.
TSNY will have more on Article 26-C in the coming weeks and months. Meanwhile, if you’re with a shelter or rescue and have something to say about the new state regs, let us know.
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.
A Long Island couple has joined the call for Albany to regulate pet hotels and daycare facilities after their beloved German shepherd died mysteriously at The Pawdorf in Wantagh. While more civilized states have adopted such legislation, twin bills to govern New York facilities stalled this year thanks to — are you sitting down? — Donna Lupardo and Michelle Hinchey.
To get Zohran Mamdani’s attention, be a lobbyist or a sycophant.
Related: Eternally flat-footed NYC ACC is waiving dog adoption fees and issuing Chewy gift cards to relieve overcrowding they know to expect yet are never prepared for.
Related: WABC filed an excellent story on two Brooklyn women doing City Hall’s job by caring for stray cats out of pocket: "The heaviness of rescue, it's unlike anything I've ever done."
Related: Thank your deity of choice that abused and abandoned Owl was discovered by Bay Ridge good Samaritans who didn’t take her to the city “shelter” to be further victimized.
A NYC Council bill would ban the practice of using live fish as prizes at events such as carnivals after one such fish was allegedly tortured by a group of teenage boys in Queens earlier this year.
Horse racing in New York continues to be publicly-subsidized and very much above board.
Related: “Horses bound for slaughter rescued in northern NY as trucker arrested”
After a years-long search, Rochester Animal Services found a veterinarian willing to work for the city’s kill pound.
Related: Rochester should soon have a new 24/7 emergency vet clinic.
Related: Shelters constructed for a Rochester cat colony have repeatedly been destroyed by vandals. About a dozen cats went missing after the latest attack.
Finally: “Custody battles for furry critters in New York begin to resemble similar fights over children”
From NYC ACC KILLS
Food recalls
FDA recently announced two pet food recalls:
Revival Animal Health Shelter’s Choice, Breeder’s Edge Feline Milk Replacers [“low levels of potassium, copper, folic acid, choline and/or pyridoxine (vitamin B6)”]
Northwest Naturals Frozen Chicken Recipe (for cats) and Northwest Naturals Frozen Raw Diet for Dogs Chicken Recipe [“potential contamination with salmonella and/or listeria monocytogenes”]
Check here for more info on FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on prior FDA advisories and outbreaks.