NYC DOH ACC Extermination Data Suggests a Kill Quota. Again.
Figures through 2025 Q3 show DOH's ACC is still taking in fewer cats and dogs, and killing more of them, than before COVID.
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Animal Care Centers of New York City exterminated 2,401 cats and dogs the first nine months of 2025, according to NYC ACC data.
The total number of killings rose 7 percent compared to the first three quarters of 2024, when ACC exterminated 2,245 cats and dogs.
The average rate of ACC cat and dog killings combined through the third quarter — 267 cats and dogs per month — was 8 percent higher than 2024’s average rate of 246 total exterminations per month.
December figures are not yet available, as ACC releases “outcome” data reports well after month’s end. But if ACC continued killing at the same pace through the fourth quarter, 2025 would have the highest combined average exterminations per month since COVID.
