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It’s October 11, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
I have struggled for days with how to best relate the story of Bello, a 4-year-old terrier mix who in June arrived at Animal Care Centers of New York City [sic] as a stray with signs of severe abuse.
In September, The Scoop New York exclusively reported that ACC — with tacit if not explicit approval from Corinne Schiff and other kill-pound supervisors at the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [also sic] — has a policy of returning abused dogs to their owners rather than notifying law enforcement of potential cruelty, though animal abandonment and cruelty to animals are crimes in the state of New York, as ACC counsel David Karopkin is or should be aware.
However, since Bello arrived as a stray with no microchip, ACC’s only job was to provide him with necessary medical care — or arrange care with first-string veterinarians outside ACC — before placing him in a home where he would be rightly treasured for the rest of his natural life.
For that to happen, though, New York City would need a functional animal shelter staffed with dedicated professionals driven by compassion for the vulnerable once and would-be family pets in their care, and not a snake pit teeming with self-loathing losers who more than anything derive pleasure from projecting their deep-seated frustrations with their pitiful pointless lives onto whatever easy targets happen to present themselves.
In the real world, then, as far as the bullies who call the shots at NYC ACC were concerned, Bello had two strikes against him.
For one, he was ill, having arrived at ACC with “significant suspected head/facial trauma,” which caused issues with his eyes, head movement and balance. If there’s anything the bullies love more than abusing a scared animal, it’s abusing a scared sick one.
Strike two was that, for virtually every normal nose-breathing biped who encountered charmer Bello, it was love at first sight. And if there’s anything the bullies love more than abusing a scared, sick animal, it’s abusing a scared, sick animal whose elective killing would serve to terrorize the private citizens in ACC’s orbit. That is, the same people ACC depends upon to do much if not most of the work ACC actually gets done, often for no remuneration, be they “shelter” volunteers, networkers, rescues, or the countless fine folk around the globe who donate to those overworked rescues from their own pockets.
Unfortunately for Bello and those who loved him, the bullies don’t need a strike three.
ACC watchers waited and worried as kill-pound sadists declared Bello “at risk” of extermination, because they are supernaturally lazy, because killing is less work than their actual jobs, and because Bello’s discretionary extermination — bonus! — would emotionally brutalize those outside the kill pound desperately trying to save his life from those paid to save his life.
Sure enough, on Thursday, head ACC DVM Robin Brennen’s team of cane-kicking deviants poisoned poor, abused, hopeful Bello until dead. Because they felt like it, and because Lynn Schulman, Harvey Epstein, Julie Menin and Zohran Mamdani — and other pols who sleazily exploit New Yorkers’ genuine affection for companion animals to get votes, then ignore those animals and constituents until the next election cycle — weren’t about to stop them.
“They killed Bello,” one of ACC’s human victims told me. “I’m shaking and crying. I think everyone is.”
Below are more comments from others traumatized watching Bello suffer and die at the hands of absentee Mayor Mamdani’s kill pound, in their own words.
The euthanasia of Bello is another example of missing animal welfare laws in New York City! He was definitely and clearly seen by his black eye a case of animal abuse but it wasn’t charged or investigated!
While under the care of NYC ACC Bello began to exhibit signs of neurological damage. This was noted but Bello was not given a neurological exam and assessment by a qualified vet. This worsened and Bello was put on the to-be-killed list. I believe Bello should have had a real exam almost immediately and certainly as soon as problems became visible.
Many advocates across the country posted/reposted on social media trying to find a foster and I believe we would have.
Today a sweet wonderful dog named Bello was euthanized. Bello arrived with head trauma and extensive facial bruising. Despite being abused staff and volunteers described Bello as being affectionate and sweet.
I am absolutely heartbroken that Bello did not get the chance to experience even a week of being in a loving home being told “You are a good dog.” I know I am not alone.
The Scoop New York asked ACC and DOH to explain why they killed an abused dog, rather than secure treatment and notify law enforcement of a potential cruelty case. We asked for the DOH/ACC policy on abused animals, and how many such cases are reported to law enforcement.
We asked, from a moral standpoint, how DOH and ACC rationalize putting potentially abused dogs to death, rather than seeing that they are treated and placed, which is ACC’s on-paper job.
New York City’s kill-pound cowards had nothing to say for themselves.
OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR NYC ACC OVERSIGHT
NYS Ag Commissioner Richard Ball: 518-457-2771; Email
Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Contact form
City Council Speaker Julie Menin: 212-788-7210; Email
Council health chair Lynn Schulman: 212-788-6981; 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
NYC DOH ACC minder Corinne Schiff: 646-632-6496; Email
CHIEF NYC ACC VETERINARIAN
Robin Brennen, DVM: Email
NYC DOH ACC Puppy/Kitten Death Row Show
This week, the Death Row Show asks: How many ACC dog handlers with how many leashes does it take to get a 45-pound dog into a kennel?
Also: How dogs are set up to fail ACC “behavior” tests; joyfulness, fear, and other capital offenses; spay-neuter-kill minus spay-neuter; and more.
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.
State officials responsible for the safety of horses bred for racing are in 2026 grappling with the existence of fire.
A Central Park cyclist died after colliding with an off-leash dog, who was reportedly not injured.
The East Village is looking for Ruco, an 18-year-old pet parakeet who may have exited an open apartment window after his caretaker died.
Here’s what to do if you or your pet encounter one of the vaccine packets NYC DOH is distributing to prevent raccoon rabies infections.
Veterinary care continues to be prohibitively expensive and isn’t getting any cheaper.
Suffolk County SPCA and Strong Island Animal Rescue are looking for the person(s) who dumped a baby crocodile in Holtsville.
An Erie County couple was permanently banned from having animals after pleading guilty to starving two dogs, one of them fatally. One defendant was sentenced to six months in jail; both got five years probation.
Finally: The New Yorker went way long on the history of NYC’s horse carriage industry and the ongoing public campaign to end it.
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Food recalls
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