Emergency Placement Animals

Thank you for your interest in adopting from Animal Care Centers of NYC. Our emergency placement animals are posted three times a week, on the evenings of Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6:00PM and remain 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 emergency placement animals, please visit the Emergency Placement 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 emergency placement 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

Emergency Placement Animals

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Socks
Socks is on the emergency placement 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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Gomer
Gomer is on emergency placement for behavior concerns. While social, Gomer has appeared highly stressed in kennel, displaying stereotypical behaviors (jumping up, barking, bouncing off walls). Additionally, he has begun leash biting and mouthing handlers with hard pressure at times during some interactions. Medically, Gomer is underweight.
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Chewy
Chewy is in need of emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Chewy has deteriorated behaviorally despite best efforts to keep him comfortable, making it difficult to house him safely. When approached in the kennel, Chewy is observed to lick the kennel bars, leash bite when removed from the kennel. Once outside during walks, Chewy has begun to fixate and latch onto tree branches, growling when attempts are made to separate him. Medically, Chewy is apparently healthy.
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Bruno The Brave
Bruno the Brave is on emergency placement for behavior and medical concerns. While Bruno remains social and playful with handlers, he remains in a constant state of stress while in kennel. He is often observed to be soaked in saliva from hypersalivating, also jumping up incessantly and barking. Medically, Bruno the Brave has a cleft lip and has developed a head tilt while at the shelter. Thea head tilt will require further work-up to make a treatment plan.
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Nobel
Nobel is on the emergency placement list due to his behavior. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing behavior when approached for interactions. She 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. 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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Lola
Lola is on emergency placement for behavioral reasons. She is highly reactive to people approaching her kennel, barking, growling, and snapping. While she will from handlers, once the treats are stops she resumes reacting. Medically, she has dental disease, dermatitis, ectropion, and chronic corneal changes.
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Charlie
Charlie is on emergency placement for behavioral reasons. While in his previous home he was reported to be friendly, outgoing, and playful, at the care center he is highly stressed and fearful. His high level of fear is displayed through him lunging, growling, and snapping at people when his kennel is approached. Due to this behavior, he has been unable to be taken out and is available for rescue only. Medically, Charlie has alopecia and superficial pyoderma.
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Bryant
Bryant is on the emergency placement list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing behavior when approached for interactions. While he has warmed up minimally, he does not allow prolonged handling or touch, 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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Precious
Recommend EP for medical reasons - Precious is a senior cat with several medical problems. The most pressing is a URI with oral ulceration and anorexia. Precious will need an e-tube placed if her appetite does not improve in the next few days. She needs more aggressive supportive care than can be provided in shelter and should ideally go to a 24 hour facility if her appetite does not improve.
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Rojo
Rojo is in need of emergency placement for behavior reasons. He has had 3 bite incidents in his previous home for various reasons. He resource guards his food bowl, he redirected on the owner for intervening between a dog-dog altercation and bitten while being muzzled. In the care center he initially allowed for handling before becoming defensive and growling towards handlers when attempting to end socialization sessions. Medically, he is a healthy dog.
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Cookie
Cookie is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Cookie was observed to be on-leash reactive towards dogs and people. She hard barks, snarls and bares her teeth. One one occasion, Cookie was reacting to a dog then redirected her frustration on a staff member standing on the side- she lunged and hard bark. Medically, Cookie is apparently healthy.
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Ace Blake

Ace Blake is in need of emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. While social with caretakers and handlers outside, Ace Blake is highly reactive to other dogs and people when they pass his kennel. He throws himself into the kennel door, lunges, hard barks, and growls, making himself a trigger and increasing the stress levels of his neighbors. Medically, Ace Blake is underweight.
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Manu
Manu is on emergency placement for behavior concerns. While Manu is a social dog, he has started to become highly stressed while in kennel and is at risk for deterioration. Manu is observed to jump up incessantly in kennel, barking, hypersalivating; he has been observed to be covered in drool at times. Medically, Manu has CIRDC.
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Loreo
Loreo is on the emergency placement list due to behavior. Although she is beginning to acclimate to the shelter environment, due to a repeat bite history and the potential to deteriorate in the shelter 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 a fearful cat adjust to strangers. Loreo is on the emergency placement list due to behavior. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing behavior when approached for interactions. She has not warmed up despite staff using treats to build a positive association and continues to show behavior consistent with petting induced aggression. 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 working with these types of behavior.
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Lace
Lace is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. In the care centers, Lace was observed to hard bark, snarl, and lunge at strangers and staff during walks. On one occasion, he bit a staff member when her arm, leaving a puncture and bruising. During cleaning, he will bite the kennel bars. Medically, Lace is apparently healthy.
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Max
Max is on emergency placement for behavior and medical concerns. Throughout his stay Max has been uncomfortable in the care center environment. While he has displayed some attention seeking behavior with certain familiar handlers, he continues to be highly fearful of strangers, escalating to growling, lunging and baring teeth at times. Medically, Max has developed serious pneumonia and has stopped eating. He needs care and support that we cannot adequately provide.
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Paige
Paige is on the emergency placement list due to behavior. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing behavior 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 a fearful cat adjust to strangers.
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Dice
Dice is in need of emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Dice has become a major stressor for the other neighboring dogs due to his reactivity in and out of kennel. When in his kennel, he throws himself into the walls and kennel door while hard barking, growling, and snapping at the other dogs and people when passing his kennel. When removed from his kennel, he continues his reactivity when passing the other kennels and during walks, making it difficult to house him safely. Medically, Dice is apparently healthy.
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Skittles
Skittles is on emergency placement for behavior concerns. Skittles has been displaying high levels of stress and frustration while kennel, barking and biting at the kennel bars as well as cage fighting. Medically, Skittles has dermatitis and is overweight.
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Dream
Dream is on emergency placement for behavior concerns. While social with familiar handlers, Dream has been becoming increasingly difficult for staff to handle due to a high level of leash biting (tugging). On one instance she was observed to jump up, growl and snap towards a handler. Medically, Dream is apparently healthy.
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Junior
Junior is in need of emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. In his previous home, Junior was reported to resource guard toys and any item he considers valuable. While social with caretakers and handlers, Junior is deteriorating behaviorally due to his length of stay. He leash bites when out on walks and is highly reactive in his kennel when people or other pass, making him a stressor for the other dogs. Medically, Junior has conjunctivitis, entropion, a healing wound, and lameness in his left hind leg.
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Little Girl
Little Girl is in need of emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Little Girl was surrendered to the Care Center due to a bite incident in the home towards the resident cat. Since her intake, Little Girl has warmed up to familiar staff and caretakers but has begun to deteriorate due to her length of stay. She is leash biting to the point where it is difficult for her to be removed from her kennel safely for walks. Little Girl has also begun to bite on the ceiling of her kennel out of her high level of anxiety despite best efforts to keep her comfortable. Medically, Little Girl is apparently healthy.
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Sevyn
Sevyn is on emergency placement for behavior concerns. Sevyn is highly stressed in kennel and has been becoming difficult to handle. Sevyn has been observed to snap at the leash when attempting to remove from his kennel, at times tugging it in. Medically, Sevyn is apparently healthy.
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Cosmo
Cosmo is on the emergency placement 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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Shadow
Shadow is on emergency placement for behavior concerns. While Shadow has warmed up a bit to handlers in the care center, he remains uncomfortable with some forms of handling and direct contact. Additionally, Shadow has a multiple bite history from his previous home. Medically, he has dental disease and pyoderma.
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