At-Risk Animals

Thank you for your interest in adopting from Animal Care Centers of NYC. Our At-Risk List is posted three times a week, on the evenings of Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6:00PM and remains viewable for 42 hours.

Schedule overview:
Animals posted at 6:00PM on Sunday evening will be viewable until Tuesday at 12:00PM noon.
Animals posted at 6:00PM on Tuesday evening will be viewable until Thursday at 12:00PM noon.
Animals posted at 6:00PM on Thursday evening will be viewable until Saturday at 12:00PM noon.

To find out the status of at-risk animals, please visit the At-Risk Outcomes page.

If this is your first time visiting this site, please read the below information carefully.

For anyone who wishes to adopt, there is a mandatory deposit fee of $200 plus a transaction fee per animal to place an adoption reservation. The $200 covers $50 toward the adoption fee and $150 for the spay/neuter deposit. If the animal has already been spayed or neutered or is permanently waived by one of our veterinarians, the $150 deposit will be refunded at the time of the adoption. If the animal does need to leave without being spayed or neutered due to his/her medical condition, the $150 deposit will be refunded at the time they are brought back for the spay/neuter surgery or when proof of sterilization being done elsewhere is provided to ACC. If you do not follow through with the adoption, the entire $200 deposit will be considered a charitable donation to ACC's Special Treatment and Recovery Fund (STAR). Also, if the adoption fee for an animal is less than $50, the difference will be considered a charitable donation to the STAR Fund. Similarly, in-shelter pricing promotions do not apply to at-risk animals.

To complete an adoption, please click reserve on the animal of your choice. That animal will be loaded in your cart and you will have 15 minutes to complete the adoption process. In order to complete your reservation, you need to check out (top right corner). At this point, you will enter in your credit card information and a receipt will be emailed to you as confirmation of your reservation. If you have any issues, please email adopt@nycacc.org for help navigating the website.

If you are interested in fostering/adopting through one of our New Hope partners, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/ozHex3uqvNkQt2dq9

At-Risk Animals

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Rylee
Rylee is on the at risk list due to behavior concerns in care and noted in her previous home. Rylee in the care center has displayed hyperarousal in the care center, accompanied by leash biting during her behavior assessment. Rylee does have a bite history with another dog, and has bit and held onto another dogs ear breaking skin. Rylee was also recently returned after being adopted. She held and shook onto the resident dog's ear, which did not break skin. Rylee is also reported to be reactive on leash towards strangers and other dogs on walks. Medically, Mass and Pyoderma.
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Rose Bud

Rose Bud is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Rose Bud was observed to be highly dog reactive while at the Care Centers. She has been noted to consistently pull hard towards dogs while growling, tense body, despite having ample distance and space. She is also not able to be redirected with treats, sounds, or verbal cues. Recently her reactivity has been escalating; Rose Bud has begun to now jumping towards the end of leash and continues to be difficult to redirect. When handlers try to block line of sight with other dogs, Rose Bud is observed to be persistent in trying to re-establish visual by pulling hard in the direction of the dog. Rose Bud is non-reactive to people on leash, and is aloof with familiar staff. Medically, she is noted to have undetermined allergies but otherwise is healthy.
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Sunny
Sunny is at risk due to her behavioral concerns in care. Sunny has not adjusted well to the care center environment has displayed a high level of fearfulness such as a tense body, tucked tail, widened eyes, and avoidance of handler interaction. During handling, she has shown touch sensitivity, whale eye, and defensive behaviors, including head whipping and an air snap toward a handler. Medically Sunny has Dental Disease.
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Bluey
Bluey is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Bluey in the care center has not been acclimating despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Bluey will bark in the corner of his kennel throughout the day, and is noted to begin to guard items in his kennel making it difficult to remove him from kennel at times. Bluey is generally anxious in the care center, and has began to jump up and grab his leash during some interactions. Medically, Bluey is apparently healthy.
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Niko
Niko is on the at-risk list for medical reasons. He has difficulty defecating because he has muscle weakness in his rectal tissue (perineal hernia). He needs care, attention and, potentially, surgery that we cannot provide.
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Toby
Toby is on the at-risk list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing behavior when approached for interactions. He has not warmed up despite staff using treats to build a positive association. Due to his stress levels, it is in his best interest to move out of the kennel environment and into a stable home as quickly as possible. He would do best in a home with adopters who are willing to give him plenty of time and space to adjust, and who have experience with helping a fearful cat adjust to strangers.
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Tesla
Tesla is on at the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Tesla in care is struggling to acclimate to his kennel environment despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Tesla has began to display poor kennel presence, lunging and hard barking at his kennel door when approached and is observed to rebound off his kennel walls throughout the day. Medically, Tesla has a heart murmur.
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty is at-risk due to behavior concerns. He arrived at the care centers as a stray with no known history. During his intake he allowed handling, but had a tense body, was hard staring, retreated from staff, began barking at them, and had to be muzzled. He is reported to be very food motivated. Throughout his stay he has been observed to hard stare towards people on dogs while on leash. In care, he refuses to re-enter the kennel room if the fan is turned on, and sometime has to be jogged in. He was reported to be jumpy but redirectable, but as of recently, he has deteriorated and has become more challenging to redirect. At the beginning of the month, staff reported an incident where they were in the elevator with Black Beauty when he began to jump onto the handler in a very frantic manner and began mouthing them. In a recent incident, Black Beauty began jumping up at a handler and actually bit and released their shirt, no contact was made. On his walks he never settles and is constantly displaying very frantic behavior, pacing, darting in all directions, scrambling, pulling very hard and abruptly stopping to intensely scratching himself, a displacement behavior. During attempting training sessions, he remains above threshold, unable to retain his focus, and even escalates to whining. He does not engage or is receptive to high value treats, squeakers, or pattern games. Medically, he is apparently healthy.
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Agnes
Agnes is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Agnes was noted to be highly fearful when first arriving at the Care Centers. Despite efforts to keep him comfortable, Agnes has remained fearful and is not warming up to staff. Agnes is noted to be difficult to leash (leash dodging), hesitant to exit or enter kennel, and at times thrashed on leash when walking through the hallways of the Care Centers. In play yard Agnes is noted to hide below benches, show tense body and tucked tail, often pacing in a circular motion around handlers avoiding socializing. Agnes is noted to walk fairly well on leash when outside on sidewalk, and is non-reactive to dogs. Medically Agnes appears to have unspecified dermatitis, but otherwise is apparently healthy.
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Groucho
Groucho is on the at-risk list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing behavior when approached for interactions; however, he may be somewhat conflicted since he occasionally has good days where he welcomes petting and attention. Due to his stress levels, it is in his best interest to move out of the kennel environment and into a stable home as quickly as possible. She would do best in a home with adopters who are willing to give him plenty of time and space to adjust, and who have experience with helping a fearful cat adjust to strangers.
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Picasso

Reserved
Picasso is at risk for behavior reasons. Picasso is deteriorating in care. He has always lacked basic manners and impulse control, however with a prolonged stay, he becomes easily over aroused, escalating to jumping and mouthing during socialization session. He requires more exercise and impulse control training with an experienced owner in an adult home. Medically, he is apparently healthy.
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Nino

Reserved
Nino needs placement due to medical reasons, he is a senior dog with a high grade heart murmur and large, ulcerated, infected mass on his right shoulder which needs surgical removal. He is sweet/social and has allowed medical handling, but needs more care than we can provide.
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Perry
Perry is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Perry was initially fearful at the Care Center, he was noted be avoidant of being leashed and showed tense body in kennel. Over time, Perry has warmed up to handlers; he is generally easily leashed, is social and solicits petting from staff. Perry has shown on leash reactivity to both dogs and unfamiliar people, treats and stimuli are inconsistently effective at redirecting Perry. Most recently, Perry has been showing increasing hyper-arousal concerns. In several instances Perry has been noted to be leash bite with increasing intensity, nearly redirecting on a handler's arm, and in a separate instance mouthed a staff members hand with high pressure (no broken skin). This is making it increasingly difficult to handle Perry safely. Medically he is noted to have some dental disease but is otherwise healthy.
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Erasmus
Erasmus needs at risk placement for medical reasons. He is a sweet boy with diabetic ketoacidosis. He is eating but needs monitoring in a veterinary clinic until his insulin dose is regulated.
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Rocco
Rocco is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Rocco in the care center is not acclimating well despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Rocco in his kennel with growl and hard bark at staff at times when trying to handle him, and on walks in highly reactive towards other dogs in the care center, lunging and hard barking but is social on approach with familiar handlers. Rocco has some arousal concerns as well, jumping towards handlers faces and becomes easily arousal with little stimuli. Medically, Rocco is apparently healthy.
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Beatrice

Reserved
Beatrice is on the at risk for medical reasons. Beatrice is a geriatric dog with kidney and heart disease as well as chronic skin disease. Her prognosis is poor, but she is stable currently and allows all handling. Hospice/palliative care would be appropriate.
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Corvette

Corvette is on the at-risk list due to behavior. She is an under socialized adult cat and is not thriving in the care center and continues to display shut down/avoidant behaviors when approached for interactions. She has not warmed up despite staff using treats to build a positive association. Due to her stress levels, it is in her best interest to move out of the kennel environment and into a stable home as quickly as possible. She would do best in a home with adopters who are willing to give her plenty of time and space to adjust, and who have experience with helping an under socialized and fearful hoarding cat adjust to strangers.
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Mercury

Mercury is on the at-risk list due to behavior. She is an under socialized adult cat and is not thriving in the care center and continues to display avoidant behaviors when approached for interactions. She has not warmed up despite staff using treats to build a positive association. Due to her stress levels, it is in her best interest to move out of the kennel environment and into a stable home as quickly as possible. She would do best in a home with adopters who are willing to give her plenty of time and space to adjust, and who have experience with helping an under socialized and fearful hoarding cat adjust to strangers.
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Mamacita
Mamacite is on the at-risk list for medical reasons - Mamacita is a geriatric cat that has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. This is a lifelong condition that typically requires BID medication. I131 radiation can be curative if patient is a good candidate. Update 9/2 - Mamacita was on trial adoption and stopped eating and was returned to shelter. Her methimazole has been discontinued for now and her appetite has improved. She will need follow-up care with a veterinarian for long-term treatment plan.
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Dudley
Dudley need at risk placement for medical reasons. She is a mature cat who is not eating due to an upper respiratory tract infection. She loves head and cheek rubs and needs supportive care in a veterinary clinic to recover.
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Ahriya
Ahriya needs at risk placement for medical reasons. She is a mature cat who is not eating due to a severe upper respiratory tract infection. She loves cheek and chin rubs and needs supportive care in a veterinary clinic to recover.
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Turtle

Reserved
Turtle is at risk for medical reasons - Turtle is a geriatric dog that has lost weight and had a poor appetite in care. He has also been reportedly lethargic. Diagnostics in shelter did not reveal obvious underlying disease, but abnormalities should be followed up with placement. Alternatively, palliative/hospice care would be appropriate as well.
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Boss
Boss is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Boss in the care center has shown arousal concerns in care, as well as some stranger danger during his time in the care center. Boss when out on walks or during interaction will easily become over aroused, jumping on staff incessantly and beginning to mouth staff limbs/clothing. Boss has also displayed some stranger danger, hard barking and growling at unfamiliar staff in the halls or in the office spaces. Medically, Boss has CIRDC and happy tail.
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