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.

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At-Risk Animals

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Caramel Swirl
Caramel Swirl is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Caramel Swirl has been highly social with caretakers and handlers during her stay in care. But she has become difficult to walk due to her intermittent leash biting, which is increasing in intensity. At times, she will take toys or treats from handlers during leashing, but once out, she can be difficult to refocus due to her persistently jumping up and biting the lead. Medically, Caramel Swirl is apparently healthy.
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Patron
Patron is at risk due to kennel deterioration. In care Patron had shown signs of kennel stress such as licking her kennel walls, biting on her kennel bars, and breaking the carabiner from her kennel. She will had hard bark at other dogs across from her kennel. With handlers, she has shown social behaviors seeking attention, allowing petting, and will engage in pattern games. Medically Parton has dental disease and is overweight.
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Octavia
Octavia is at risk for behavior concerns due to a consistent pattern of reactivity toward other dogs, including hard barking, growling, lunging, and charging at her crate or kennel door when dogs pass by. She has shown significant difficulty managing visual stimuli, often removing or destroying crate covers intended to reduce her stress. She has also exhibited barrier reactivity toward dogs housed near her, tracking their movements. Octavia can be easily leashed by handlers and staff, engages during interactions with toys, petting, and enjoys treats. Medically, apparently healthy.
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Bailey
Bailey is currently at risk due to behavior reasons. Bailey has been mostly social with handlers at the care center, displaying soft body and allowing most handling. When uncomfortable, she will thrash and move away. However, Bailey's previous owners report her to be reactive towards dogs and strangers, hard barking, lunging and snapping towards them. She is reported to be destructive and vocal in the home as well as mouthy. Medically, Bailey is apparently healthy.
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Disco
Disco is at risk due to behavior concerns. His previous owner noted him to have separation anxiety and will run away from home occasionally. During his first stay at the care centers, he was noted to be fearful, anxious, and have on leash reactivity. This behavior has remained consistent. During intake, he was reported to hard bark, growl, and was uninterested in treats or squeakers. He has remained aloof with handlers when interacting but when being removed from kennel, he has been noted to spin towards second handler on occasion. Medically, he is apparently healthy.
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Ngoma
Ngoma is at risk due to behavior concerns. She arrived at MACC as a stray with no known history. During intake she was noted to display fearful behavior, tense, crouching away, lip licking, and whale eyeing. She has tolerated all handling and has warmed up to select handlers by taking treats, but overall remains highly fearful of her surroundings. She has been reported to seek exit, crouch, baulk, and even thrash on leash. Ngoma has remained highly treat and food motivated throughout her stay. Medically, she is apparently has dermatitis and a wound.
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Bane
Bane is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns in his previous home. Bane has been reported to bite his owner while separating there resident dogs from fighting, and Bane redirected onto his owners leg breaking skin. Bane also has a history of snapping at residents in the home while in his crate. Bane in the care center has been social with staff. Medically, Bane has dental disease.
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Turtle Dove
Turtle Dove is on the at-risk due to behavior concerns. Turtle Dove in the care center has displayed some sensitives with handling at times, and during Turtle Dove's recent handling assessment displayed a significant amount of resource guarding. When approached, growled and bit and held the fake hand multiple times. Turtle Dove is becoming social with staff and volunteers during his stay in the care center. Medically, Turtle Dove is apparently healthy.
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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Brooklyn in the care center has been intensely fearful in care, displaying a tucked tail, whale eyeing and remaining tense during interactions. Brooklyn also has a bite history, biting a police officer when attempting to remove her from a car she was left in, breaking skin. Medically, Brooklyn is clinically healthy.
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Pythagoras
Pythagorus is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Since arriving at the Care Center, he is noted to be fearful a display defensive behaviors when handlers approach his kennel. He is observed to back away and snapp at leash when attempting to be walked. Pythagoras is also noted to be reactive to dogs, growling with low tense body while in kennel room. Medically, Pythagorus has started treatment for CIRDC.
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Salem
Salem is currently at risk due to behavior reasons. Salem presented social upon intake, jumping onto handler in a social manner and accepting pets. However, he has been mostly aloof during other interactions, nose to the ground sniffing and not seeking attention or responsive to handler when called. He has displayed evidence of arousal, frantic fast movements with gusts of wind. He also resource guards, head whipping and jumping towards handler during the toy portion of the handling assessment. Medically, he has started treatment for CIRDC.
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Jumbo Shrimp
Jumbo Shrimp is at risk due to behavioral reasons. In the finders home Jumbo was reported to have a bite incident with the resident child. A resident child was walking past Jumbo when he began to hard stare between the child and the resident dogs. The child became afraid and ran away, Jumbo then ran after the child and bit and released their shoe. No contact was made with skin and the bite did not break skin. In the finders home Jumbo was also observed to bare teeth at a dog that approached his water bowl. In care Jumbo was observed to become tense and lip lick when handlers placed a collar on him. Medically, Jumbo has dental disease and pyoderma which is resolving.
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Yoshi
Yoshi is at risk due to behavioral concerns in care. In the care center, he has exhibited intense leash biting, kennel fighting, and redirection attempts during transitions, including mouthing handlers' clothing and grabbing at leashes. While these incidents have not resulted in injury, he has made it difficult for handlers to safely walk him in and out of his kennel. In more calmer settings, he is highly social and engages well with enrichment and training games. Medically, Yoshi is healthy.
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Duess
Duess is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Duess has been observed to be fearful during her time in the care center. During intake she was observed to hard bark, lunge towards handlers, and thrash intensely while on leash. Throughout her stay she has maintained this behavior. Noted to bare teeth towards handlers when they approach her in kennel. Medically Duess is apparently healthy.
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Sweet Tangerine
Sweet Tangerine is at risk due to behavior concerns. She arrived at the care centers as a stray with no known history. Sweet Tangerine has warmed up to select handlers, she leans in for pets and is very toy motivated. With her extended stay her dog reactive has intensified; Reported to become tense with hackles, challenging to redirect, hard barking, and now vocalizing directing her frustration towards staff members. Medically, she is apparently healthy.
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Sargeant
Sargent is at risk due to behavior concerns. He arrived at MACC as an owner surrender and was described as a social and affectionate dog. His previous owner noted that he will alert bark towards dogs while on leash and will hard bark and growl towards strangers that approach. During his intake, he displayed the same behaviors as his owner had reported. He became tense and began to hard bark when approached by handlers, escalating to head whipping and lunging. Throughout his stay in the care center Sargent has continued to hard bark, growl, and lunge towards both people and dogs while on leash. He has warmed up to tolerate most handling with a slow approach. Medically, he is beign treated for CIRDC currently.
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Prince
Prince is on the at-risk list for behavior concerns. Prince was recently returned after a bite incident at home. The adopter explained that while they were waiting for the elevator with Prince, a neighbor approached with a large dog. Without warning, Prince lunged at the dog, which then bit Prince on the left side of his head. The adopter intervened to separate the dogs, and during the process, Prince bit the adopter's right arm three times, causing multiple puncture wounds. Despite this incident, Prince has remained social and affectionate with the care center staff, displaying a soft body and playful behavior with handlers. Medically, Prince is healthy.
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Draco
Draco is on the at-risk list for medical reasons. Draco is heartworm positive and has also been diagnosed with CIRDC. He is not consistently eating oral medications and thus we are unable to effectively treat his heartworm disease in shelter. Behaviorally, he is fearful, but has allowed all medical handling.
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Finn
Finn is at risk due to his behavioral concerns in care. While he has shown the ability to engage socially with handlers, he has also displayed concerning behaviors, including growling, lunging, and snapping at staff when he saw them grab a cone during his walk back into the care center. Medically, Finn is currently healthy.
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Rex
Rex is at risk for behavior reasons. Rex had a bite incident in his previous home when a familiar visiting guest startled him. He escalated to biting his upper arm leaving 2 puncture wounds. Rex has been highly fearful in care, escalating to growling when uncomfortable. He does give clear warning and is slowly warming up to select handlers. Medically, Rex is apparently healthy.
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Eden
Eden is at risk due to behavior concerns. Eden arrived at the care centers as a stray with no previous known history. During her intake she displayed social behavior, had a relaxed body and allowed all handling. Throughout her stay she has remained friendly with handlers, regularly accepting pets and treats. Eden has been observed to be very on leash reactive towards bikes, scooters, skateboards, dogs, and cats. She will intensely kennel fight as she is removed from the room, as well as, as she is walked past the pop up crates and cat kennels. Eden will lunge, hard bark, and become both fixated and tense when spotting any of the above mentioned. Over time she has become harder to redirect. Recently she has started to hump handlers, is unable to be redirected, and it escalates to leash biting. Medically, she is healthy at this time.
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Treasure

Treasure is on the at risk list due to medical reasons. He is geriatric, has a high-grade heart murmur and is also showing signs of circling, which may be due to underlying neurologic disease. He will either need a cardiology and neurology consult or hospice care with placement. Behaviorally, Treasure is mostly aloof but tolerates medical handling well.
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Harrison
Harrison is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Initially Harrison was been showing fearful behaviors such as head whipping during handling, tense body, tucked tail during walks. Recently he is observed to be highly reactive to dogs in pop up crates and redirects to charging at handlers, he has also been noted to lunge at other staff members while outside on leash. With familiar staff, Harrison has been social allowing light touching and petting. Medically Harrison is healthy.
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Water Fall
Water Fall is at risk due to behavior concerns in care. While he has demonstrated social behavior, leaning in for petting and seeking handler interaction, he has also escalated to growling, stiffening, and attempting to lunge during his handling assessment. Additionally, he has repeatedly shown resistance when returning to his kennel—tense body, pulling away, and persistently trying to shove his way back out. On one occasion, he vocalized and snapped at the handler's knee after being secured. Medically, Waterfall is healthy at this time.
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Snoopy
Snoopy is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Snoopy's reported behavior concerns in his previous home include snapping, lunging, and multiple biting incidents involving family members, a neighbor, a child, and the other resident dog. He displays high arousal, anxiety, and reactivity, especially toward strangers, other animals, and during handling or restraint. His owner reported that he may bark before escalating, but he was not consistent with this and did not always display warnings. During his intake, Snoopy began leash biting, jumping to chest level while growling, and grabbing staff's clothing. Medically, Snoopy is healthy.
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