Photos Show Puppy Covered in Feces at Brand New NYC ACC Queens Facility
Photos Show Puppy Covered in Feces at Brand New NYC ACC Queens Facility
ACC and NYC officials have not responded to TSNY queries about social media pics posted over the weekend.
Photos posted on social media are claimed to show an 8-month-old puppy in a waste-covered kennel at the brand new NYC ACC facility in Queens.
The dog, a black and white mix known as Zamboni, has been at ACC Queens at least since the first week of August, according to dates on other social media posts. As of today, his ACC adoption page says Zamboni has been in ACC’s care for 20 days.
The photos, said to have been taken last week, were posted on X by ACC watcher Anne Margaret Daniel. They show Zamboni in a small metal kennel surrounded by feces and trash, with little room to move or even sit. Feces is matted into his fur. Garbage fills his otherwise empty food and water bowls.
It is not unusual for authorities in New York to file animal cruelty charges against private citizens who keep domestic animals in such conditions.
Here is Zamboni before last week’s photos were taken:
This is far from the first time such abuse has been documented at NYC ACC since it was established some 30 years ago. A 2020 New York Post exposé, for example, depicts animals enduring similar conditions. A federal lawsuit was filed last year over neglect and abuse at ACC.
New Yorkers paid $75 million for ACC Queens, which opened last month after decades of planning and delays. Now, as advocates feared and, in some cases, expected, it’s apparent that accommodations for homeless animals in ACC’s care are little if any better in Queens than at other ACC locations.
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The Scoop New York reached out to Queens City Council Member Lynn Schulman, chair of the council health committee, which ostensibly oversees ACC, for comment on the Zamboni photos and conditions in Queens. We also emailed ACC board chair Patrick Nolan and ACC spokesperson Katy Hansen. We received no responses.
An email message to Brooklyn council member and self-styled “animal welfare advocate” Justin Brannan was not immediately returned.
We will update this story if we hear back from any of the officials responsible for conditions at NYC ACC.