NYC ACC KILLS: February 2025

NYC ACC exterminated 196 adoptable cats and dogs in February. They won't be forgotten.

The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to companion animals and the New Yorkers who care for them, from Buffalo to Brooklyn. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were nonetheless exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.

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It’s May 30, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week — today, as it happens — The Scoop New York published the NYC ACC KILLS memoriam for cats and dogs exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City in February 2025.

NYC ACC record-keeping is characteristically slipshod. There is no official digital portal for the posters and videos, produced mostly by volunteers, of animals who did not make it out of the system alive. As if.

There isn’t even a complete, publicly available list of the dead, since most of those put to death are never offered for adoption. And also because ACC and its overlords at the city health department don’t consider the lives of cats and dog…