NYC ACC KILLS: January 2026
Silent kills, spay-neuter-kills, beloved family pet kills: It was just another month for NYC DOH kill pound sadists.
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It’s March 21, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, NYC ACC KILLS is back.
Puppy victims; senior victims; spay-neuter-kill victims; sick and exterminated rather than treated victims; nonsensically-named victims; bonded family pets separated forever; family pets whose seriously ill, evicted and/or homeless humans, deceived by ACC propaganda, turned to the “shelter” believing it was the right thing to do — believing ACC would do what ACC says it does — unaware they were actually condemning their four-legged loved ones to a lonely, violent, terrifying untimely death: all are represented by cats and dogs exterminated in January by Animal Care Centers of New York City.
Below are excerpts from the January 2026 NYC ACC KILLS memoriam post, with a link to the original, followed by this week’s headline stack.
Read it and weep.
Tres Leches [245003]: 10 years old; killed January 8. Tres Leches was an emaciated and dehydrated stray cat with a severe injury to his tongue. His finder said she saw Tres Leches outside about two months earlier and offered him food. Tres Leches ran into her home and refused to leave so she allowed him to come in and out for meals as he pleased. During his medical exam, he sat quietly and allowed all handling, giving soft headbutts when a hand was offered. He needed medical attention ACC doesn’t give and was killed on day three, when the mandatory stray hold time was up.
Tyrone [241631]: 6 years old; killed January 5. With his worried face and a gentle demeanor, Tyrone described by a handler as a “very chill boy” had a hellish time at NYC ACC. In isolation for CIRDC, which is endemic there; then over sedated by drugs (also endemic) until he wasn’t steady on his feet; those paws also painfully inflamed, probably from walking on salt in the winter. ACC neutered Tyrone, then killed him seven weeks after he arrived.
Zo Juniore [243208]: 2 years old; killed January 5. Zo Juniore was hopeful, noted to be friendly during his medical exam. It was all downhill from there. That he was easily leashed, wiggly, soft-bodied didn’t matter. Not wanting to go back in his cage, being afraid, was a nuisance. They didn’t make a video to help him find a home and took only one photo. Zo was one of countless dogs ACC doesn’t really try to save.
Zo, his human said, was active and playful, fond of tennis balls, running, and eating fruit. Given the triple cocktail of drugs, Trazodone, Gabapentin and Clonidine, NYC ACC killed Zo after 21 days.
Paige [241756]: 4 years old; killed January 21. Paige’s owner tied her to the “shelter” gate and drove away. A volunteer said, “This worried girl makes me ache. Paige cries softly as we interact with her, vigilantly looking around to study every sound … Toys brighten her spirits and show us the puppy within this 4-year-old girl — she chases and jumps and plays and momentarily forgets her worries until she remembers them again, of course.”
A staff member said, “She is curious and alert, but can became anxious…” Fear is a no-no at NYC ACC, where they killed Paige after two months.
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.
Yes, Council Member Epstein, glue traps are barbaric and should not be legal. Now if you’ll just look this way for a second.
New York City media who willfully ignore the city’s non-stop culling of homeless cats and dogs can’t stop won’t stop talking about dog shit.
Rochesterians furious over the city’s failure to protect companion animals from abusers are demanding stronger local laws and filing a lawsuit against the Rochester Police Department for “failure to adequately intervene in cases of animal neglect and abuse.”
Meanwhile, the application of New York State’s already weak cruelty laws remains a joke: In Defense of Animals wants the public to speak up after an Oneida County judge sentenced Anaiya Harris of Utica to just six months in county jail for sealing her dog inside a closet to die, even after the judge, Robert Bauer, cited a pre-sentencing report indicating Harris, who could have received up to two years in prison, exhibited “a complete lack of remorse.”
Related: Erie County DA Michael Keane allowed a Tonawanda man to plead guilty to one count of felony aggravated cruelty for stabbing a Boston Terrier to death in his home, and Judge Kenneth Case rejected the DA’s request to prohibit the perp from being around animals as he awaits sentencing (since in New York felony cruelty charges don’t qualify for bail).
Related: A motorist who allegedly fled the scene after striking a man walking his dogs in Queens, severely injuring the man and killing one of his pets, is free to keep driving as his case proceeds (since career do-nothing taxpayer-check casher Melinda Katz, currently Queens DA, filed wrist-tap misdemeanor charges that don’t qualify for bail).
Related: Oswego County SPCA is seeking donations and fosters after “one of the most significant multi-species rescue responses in recent OCAWL history” from a property in Sandy Creek whose owner is so far facing only misdemeanor charges.
Related: The owner of a dog day care in Saratoga County was charged with two counts of criminal mischief — a class D felony — and one count of felony aggravated cruelty (a less serious charge) after investigators “found dogs and cats in rooms that were 100 degrees” while investigating the heat stroke death of a French bulldog, Gus, last summer, according to a local news report and court records reviewed by TSNY.
Potentially related: “Humane Society investigates after dog found dead in dumpster on Rochester’s west side.”
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.