With Adams Sidelined, It's Business as Usual at NYC ACC
Though the city says it will help endangered New Yorkers with family pets.
The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to covering the movement for a true no-kill New York State, from Buffalo to Brooklyn. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were nonetheless exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.
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It’s February 21, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams retained his job, kind of, and celebrated a tenuous temporary reprieve from his federal corruption case, infamously paused by decree definitely not in exchange for blind fealty to the rabid hyenas currently infesting the White Trash House.
In a shocking display of integrity, a cadre of Adams’ most respected lieutenants, appointed upon order from Governor Kathy Hochul last year basically to run the city, resigned in protest, again leaving NYC under the control of the compromised so-called mayor. This would not do.
Rather than remove Adams from office — a legal but untested and inherently dicey proposition — Hochul will instead look to impose “guardrails” on what’s left of his administration.
Meanwhile, after multiple queries from The Scoop New York, NYC ACC released a statement regarding endangered migrant families with pets:
Animal Care Centers of NYC is here to support New Yorkers experiencing crisis with their pets, and our team works to provide resources and guidance to help people keep their pets whenever possible.
If someone is facing hardship due to federal immigration enforcement, we encourage them to explore all available support options, including those offered by ACC.
No declaration of resistance allyship, that. When your boss, not known as a steadying presence to begin with, is suddenly a cipher for a hostile higher power, how could it be otherwise?
What the statement strongly implies is that ACC’s overseers — the health department and, even more nominally, the mayor’s “animal welfare” office — have received little to no guidance from Adams, or his lieutenants, on how to approach what some at City Hall apparently consider a trifling issue, a position much easier to assume when one’s wife or husband or children or family pets are not in the crosshairs of the United States government.
In other words, extraordinary circumstances and unexpected ACC communique notwithstanding, as long as Eric “I’m a Victim” Adams occupies Gracie Mansion, it will be business as usual for New York City’s homeless companion animals. Deal or no deal.
Here’s the latest New York companion animal news:
Beyond honoring “the will of the voters,” Hochul didn’t exactly need a second rationale for leaving Adams in office, but here it is.
Related: Looks like perennial mayoral candidate and noted cat fan Curtis Sliwa locked down GOP support for next year’s election, preempting a potential Eric Adams party swap.
Poor Cooper was abandoned on a cold, wet Brooklyn street and as of this writing was in mortal danger at NYC ACC in Queens.
Related: NYC cruelty complaints rose 10 percent last year, marking the highest annual total since NYPD began tracking data in 2019.
The operators of a supposed Suffolk County sanctuary face more than 100 criminal charges after investigators found animals there living in inhumane conditions, with some deceased.
State police arrested and charged two women with multiple felony cruelty counts after authorities found dozens of dead and neglected animals on a property in Chenango County.
A fancy architecture glossy cooing over an about-damn-time NYC ACC capital project: available here and suitable for ACC board member coffee tables everywhere.
A Southampton High School student designed and produced a prosthetic limb to help Tryla, a three-legged pit mix, get adopted.
Meet Riley, the Nigerian dwarf goat and Rochester “animal ambassador” who helps educate the public on the meaning of “humane.”
And finally: Godspeed Hank.
Adoptables
Here we go again: NYC ACC will host just one mobile adoption event this weekend — rather than the usual two — in Brooklyn.
Related: See Rugelach, Kira and Nikky in this NYC news segment; then hightail it to the ACC adoptables page before their time expires.
Alabama, pictured above, is two years old and available at Lollypop Farm in Rochester.
Rochester Animal Services will hold a foster dog adoption fair at City Hall on Wednesday, February 26, from noon to 3 p.m. In the meantime, 1-year-old Boots (also above) and friends await at the pound.
The Ashville Library, in Chautauqua County, will on February 27 host a “Cat Adopt-A-Thon” to introduce locals to cats up for adoption and to help choose a name for a new library cat, after Libby, with the library since 2009, died last summer.
Find New York adoptables near you on Dogs in Danger and Adopt a Pet.
Food recalls
The FDA announced no new pet food recalls this week.
Check here for info on earlier recalls.