Silent Kills: What Zohran Mamdani's NYC DOH ACC Did to Bear
Half of ACC victims are not offered for adoption, in violation of its deal with NYers and of no concern to the mayor.
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It’s April 25, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, The Scoop New York was busy preparing for the first installment of The Weekly Carnage, a new feature from sister site NYC ACC KILLS, to be published Monday.
Meanwhile, true to form, the failed serial-killer aspirants at Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic] were busy supplying content, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani was occupied celebrating himself while neglecting the animals he exploited to get elected and ignoring questions from a reporter whose work he saw fit to cite during his campaign.
For new and non-subscribers (here’s how to fix that), The Weekly Carnage — named after a feature I maintained during my years covering New York City traffic violence — will memorialize the most recent NYC DOH ACC victims, who will also be honored in monthly NYC ACC KILLS memoriam posts.
The Weekly Carnage will complement The NYC DOH ACC Puppy/Kitten Death Row Show, coming at you live on The Scoop New York dot com on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. As of now the plan is to launch the show sometime in May.
In addition to victims DOH/ACC drags to their deaths in view of New Yorkers and others around the country (and the planet) trying desperately to save them, The Weekly Carnage and the Death Row Show will devote much time calling attention to victims like Bear.
Would you believe about half the cats and dogs DOH/ACC puts to death are never offered for adoption? Of course you would.
These exterminations — thousands per year — are known around the world as “silent kills.” They are cats and dogs (and rabbits and guinea pigs, no doubt) whom the public never sees, or sees incidentally on the victims’ way to the death chamber. Many are killed upon admission, on the spot.
These victims never appear on the “[placed] at-risk [by us]” death row list, because DOH/ACC/Zohran Mamdani don’t even pretend to give them a chance to live. I would note here that every silent kill is a prima facie violation of ACC’s contract with New Yorkers, but ACC watchers have long known that the 34-year no-bid renewal of that dirty deal, engineered by Mamdani role model Bill de Blasio in collaboration with simpatico City Council accomplices, was never worth the paper it was printed on. But that goes without saying.
DOH and ACC classify many silent kills as “end of life services” or whatever Clear Skies Initiative horse shit euphemism is currently favored by ACC mentors-slash-partners in corruption like ASPCA, Best Friends and others of their greasy ilk. Silent kill victims’ discretionary exterminations are footnoted on ACC data reports only because ACC is required to include them. They are not counted as “euthanasia” victims, however, because doing so would make it impossible for DOH and ACC to juice their live release rates.
So poor dogs like Bear, age 8, found abandoned and exterminated nine days later, are killed without ever being offered for adoption. Ditto Drifter, 6, who went from a bite hold “straight to kill command.” Grizzly, who had renal disease and was exterminated on day three. And Tinkerbell — a year-old puppy, who might just be DOH/ACC/Mamdani’s favorite targets — of whom a volunteer said, “All she wanted was to be close to me, pressing her head into my body and leaning her whole weight against me for comfort.”
There are many more victims, of course. More than we have time or space for here. Via The Weekly Carnage and the Puppy/Kitten Death Row Show, these cats and dogs, tortured and killed around the clock by The Greatest City in the World™, will have their day.
Facts: If you can look at Bear’s terrified, pleading face and want to do anything other than take that dog home and protect him forever, you are mentally ill or a natural-born stone killer, a distinction without a difference. Whether you wield the needle or stand by and watch it happen.
Either way, the people are gathering at the gates. The doors to your pervert playhouse are fixing to bust open.
Time to brace.
OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR NYC ACC OVERSIGHT
Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Contact form
City Council Speaker Julie Menin: 212-788-7210; Email
Comptroller Mark Levine: 212-669-3916; Contact forms
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams: 212-669-7250; Email
City Council members: Lookup
Borough presidents: BX; BK; MN; SI; QS
NYC DOH Commissioner Alister Martin: 311; Contact form
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.
Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan, who campaigned on cleaning up his city’s shithole “shelter,” is instead cutting his kill pound’s budget, virtually ensuring more animals will suffer and die there. But don’t worry — Ryan dispatched a surrogate to promise a new shelter sometime in the future.
Hudson Valley congressional rep Mike Lawler announced a bipartisan effort to amend federal law to help prevent public housing residents from losing their pets. Your turn, Albany.
Rescues say legislation NYC Council members are considering to legalize bodega cats will actually codify neglect and do nothing to help other “working cats,” like the ones landlords starve to prod them to kill rats.
Jamestown lawmakers are considering imposing a limit on the number of cats residents may have.
Susquehanna SPCA in Otsego County took in a dozen neglected dogs from Washington County, where as TSNY noted last week supervisor Brian Campbell opposes a local campaign to shame his county into finally building a shelter of its own.
Lollypop Farm of Rochester says the usual spring influx of homeless companion animals may be augmented this year by households facing eviction. Your turn, Albany.
A reward is available in Cortland County for help identifying whomever tortured and killed three dogs found by a roadside in the Town of Scott.
Greater Cayuga SPCA, f.k.a. Finger Lakes SPCA of CNY, is set to reopen after a year-long construction project. Meanwhile, Little Guild Animal Shelter in Cornwall is prepping for an open house to debut its new 8,000 square-foot facility.
Time Out New York gave a shoutout to White Whiskers Senior Dog Sanctuary — profiled by TSNY in 2024 — as a top rescue for adopters.
Political reporter and essayist Hamilton Nolan explains why a government decision-maker should never be happy to see a reporter, which should cause many many New York journos to feel seen.
Finally: Nathan Winograd of the No Kill Advocacy Center throws down on Best Friends Animal Society — which ICYMI (as yours truly did) began as a cult. Really.
Food recalls
FDA announced one pet food recall this week:
Breeder’s Edge, Shelter’s Choice canine milk replacer (“variable levels of vitamin D”)
Check here for more info on FDA-announced recalls, and here for details on prior FDA advisories and outbreaks.