NYC DOH to TSNY: "Respectfully," STFU About What ACC Does to Dogs
It was a brutal, bloody week for dogs at the kill pound overseen by Dr. Michelle Morse, as DOH whined about mean TSNY tweets.
The Scoop New York will return to its regular publishing schedule on Monday, December 1. — Ed.
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.
Headlines from Buffalo to Brooklyn
It’s November 22, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.
This might have been the most brutal and bloody five-day stretch I’ve witnessed in 20 months covering Animal Care Centers of New York City.
Dog who survived being “beaten, choked and stabbed”: exterminated.
Year-old puppy found alone in the Bronx: exterminated.
Dog with glaucoma, blind in one eye: disappeared while on the kill list, feared exterminated.
Dog with vaginal mass DOH/ACC (if not ASPCA as well) reportedly refused to treat: disappeared, feared exterminated.
“Eager,” “incredibly affectionate” dog “full of happy energy”: exterminated.
Amidst the carnage, DOH found time to whine “respectfully” (uh-huh) to TSNY about coverage of a subject DOH/ACC has for five months refused to talk about, that being the fate of Bella.
Spoiler: After lodging their complaint, rooted in a lie — sorry, a misspeaking — DOH got shy, refusing to answer follow-up questions or provide records to support their claims. Records that, as you’ll see below, DOH should want to make public, if they were being truthful.
Instead, these MFing defectives had the chutzpah to accuse TSNY of “insinuating” that the person in charge of the New York City kill pound is actually responsible for what goes on there. The charge came literally while DOH/ACC stonewalled New Yorkers’ life-and-death entreaties as DOH/ACC black-hoods exterminated or ICEd dogs those same New Yorkers were scrambling to save. Including specific dogs they goddamn well know New Yorkers were trying to save, targeted out of indifference or spite.
This is sadism. A more apt descriptor does not exist, except probably in German.
Thirty years of such depravity have supplied New Yorkers with enough DOH/ACC dirt to save the Battery from the encroaching sea. No insinuation required. FOH with that shit. Respectfully.
Below the fold is the week as seen from TSNY HQ thru overlapping social media posts, DMs, texts and emails, as advocates busted their asses and bawled their eyes out doing the work of Michelle Morse’s slow horses.
MONDAY / TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY
BELLA [ID UNK]
MONDAY/TUESDAY
TY [234589]
TUESDAY
Boo [240786]
TUESDAY
Onyx [237848]
ACHTUNG: At this writing Onyx remains on DOH/ACC death row.
TUESDAY
Kaneki [232007], Pumpkin [239340] and Appletini [238130]
The Scoop New York will have more on Kaneki and Pumpkin, this week disappeared and/or killed by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [sic] and NYC ACC in partnership with ASPCA, which TSNY also queried on Friday.
We will continue to follow what ASPCA does with/to Appletini.
WEDNESDAY
Party Animal [228732]
THURSDAY
Yeet [233703] and Duncan [239754]
What you see here is not even a fraction of a fraction of the physical and psychological effort it takes — every. god. damn. day. — to protect New York City’s homeless companion animals from the people paid to protect New York City’s homeless companion animals. It’s happening right now, no matter the day, date or time. DOH’s ACC is a companion animal carcass factory. It may not boast the city’s brightest workforce, but it might be the most productive.
Dogs are love incarnate. Full stop. Anyone who would purposefully terrorize a dog as a warm-up to extermination by poison or stab through the heart, or would stand by and watch as underlings do the dirty work on their behalf, and who would do so thousands and thousands of times, without flinching, all for ultimately nothing more than power, prestige, and/or filthy lucre, is broken. Sick. Deformed. With an abandoned hornets’ nest stuffed with dead leaves and splinters in place of a soul. They are lost.
And the smart ones? They know it.
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.
Albany FOTAs Kathy Hochul, Donna Lupardo and Michelle Hinchey congratulated themselves for tossing a few crumbs in the direction of the shelters they spend the rest of the year not giving a shit about.
Related: Here’s how know-nothing access media covered the same non-event, ensuring Lupardo & Hinchey may continue gatekeeping humane legislation the press-release transcribers are willfully ignorant of.
Related: Animal shelters across New York somehow continue to be grossly under-funded despite lawmakers’ largesse.
Related: Why yes, this is the same Governor Kathy “Affordability” Hochul who refused to plan for the shit storm now hammering New Yorkers who can’t afford to feed themselves and/or their pets. Thanks for asking.
The Daily News has more on the NYC Council bungling and backbiting that will ensure abused horses keep dropping dead on city streets.
WOOT: “The ACC has long been a not-so-hidden nightmare. In the first nine months of 2024, the shelter euthanized — that is, killed — approximately 1,007 cats and 1,238 dogs according to Scoop New York. Almost all were healthy and adoptable when they entered the city system.” WOOOT.
Last week’s prediction that Bronx DA Darcel Clark would allow an alleged cat torture-killer to plead his sentence down to nothing? Judge Linda Poust Lopez says that’s not gonna happen.
A Buffalo “man” copped to beating a chihuahua nearly to death last spring and the tea leaves seem to indicate District Attorney Michael Keane intends to settle for no jail time and an unenforceable prohibition on keeping animals when the perp is sentenced in January, after Keane allowed the defendant to plead guilty to misdemeanor attempted cruelty.
Finally: “Penny Landry, the owner of Malone and Constable Animal Control, is retiring, and all animals in the shelter’s care are free to adopt.” Uhh, what?
Food recalls
U.S. FDA announced no new pet recalls this week.
Check here for info on prior FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on FDA advisories and outbreaks.
