Help to reform the ACC

The AC&C's problems start at the top.  New York City's Department of Health controls and funds the AC&C.  The DOH's approach is to spend the least amount possible because animal welfare is not part of its mandate.   Protecting people from animals is the DOH's goal.

Together, our voices can reach the millions of New Yorkers with this message: 

"New York City can and must be the national model for an animal shelter system."

Learn about what's wrong with NYC's current shelter system and how it can be transformed.

Also, help us support services to animals and pet owners to help stem the tide of animals flooding into the AC&C every year.  Help make Humane Education available to children and adults alike.  Learn about the importance of Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) and how to support those services for the thousands of feral cats in NYC.  Help expand the availability of low cost spay/neuter, vaccinations and vet care for neighborhoods that are epicenters of animal homelessness.  Ensure effective and committed enforcement of anti-cruelty laws.  And help focus attention on irresponsible pet owners rather than penalizing responsible pet guardians.

Our City's homeless pets are best friends waiting to find a new home.  They become parts of our families, they are beloved companions, not a nuisance to be disposed of for expediency.  New Yorkers and their animals deserve better.

The AC&C kitten pictured above contracted an Upper Respiratory Infection, something that happens due to poor conditions to almost 100% of animals that end up at the AC&C.  Getting sick puts this kitten on the fast track to the Kill List.  Even though the ASPCA opened a kitten nursery in July 2014 to care for AC&C "bottle babies," thousands of other cats and young kittens left inside the AC&C shelters are certain to get sick.  Creating a humane and progressive shelter system is the only way to save hundreds of animals who will suffer the same fate if nothing is done. 

Our City must encourage adoptions from the  ACC, 
                                               not pushing thousands of dogs and cats onto a kill list on an eleventh hour in the hope that someone will step up and save them.