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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Darcy

Darcy needs emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Darcy is noted to resource guard food and toys, in one instance snapping when food was reached for, or stiffening and growling when toys are touched. Darcy is a bit fearful in care, vocalizing at times, despite best efforts to make him comfortable. Medically, Darcy is emaciated.
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Bleu

Bleu is on emergency placement for behavioral reasons. She is reported to display concerns about snapping or becoming reactive to people or animals in the home. In one instance she had 'nipped' the resident child on the end leaving red marks. In the care center, she has allowed handling and appears social with familiar handlers. Medically, she is overweight and has canine infectious respiratory disease complex.
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Kennedy

Kennedy needs emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Kennedy has escalated to hard barking, growling, lunging, and snapping at staff during her stay. She warmed up and has shown social behaviors (seeks attention, plays with toys, enjoys snacks) with a select few staff, but when handled by unfamiliar staff she returns to becoming defensive. Medically, Kennedy has been diagnosed with CIRDC and dermatitis.
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Cartier

Cartier needs emergency placement. She is highly social and engages in training. She if offered daily in kennel enrichment to make her comfortable but despite staff efforts, Cartier is displaying deteriorating behavior. Recently, she was observed chewing a hole in her kennel wall. Medically, Cartier is apparently healthy
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Shasha

Shasha is seeking emergency placement due to medical reasons. She has moderate non-regenerative anemia, mildly increased liver values, and a low T4 and free T4 which likely indicates hypothyroidism. She is also showing signs of osteoarthritis and has been having difficulty walking comfortably in the shelter. She will require lifelong medication for her thyroid as well as continued management of her osteoarthritis. Behaviorally, Shasha is shy but has been slowly opening up to staff in the care center.
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Thor

Thor is on emergency placement due to behavioral reasons. Thor has been observed to mouth handlers hands and arms with hard pressure. When returning to the kennel Thor will begin to bite and fixate on the handler's hands. With select handlers, Thor can appear social. Medically, Thor is receiving treatment for Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease complex and is underweight.
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Pat

Pat is seeking emergency placement for medical reasons. He has pneumonia and is not eating. He has been vomiting and has been declining in care. He needs supportive care in a hospital for further treatment to support recovery.
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Tajín

Tajin needs emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Tajin initially presented as fearful but was warmed up and is now social with staff and caretakers. However, Tajin shuts down and refuses to walk when attempts are made to take her out of the building for walks. Due to this, the ability to go for a walk is fairly limited. Medically, Tajin is healthy.
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Thunder

Thunder needs emergency placement due to behavior concerns. He has become increasingly stressed in the kennel and has escalated to snapping at staff through the bars. As a result, he is difficult to handle safely. Thunder was highly fearful when he first entered care but has warmed over time. Medically, Thunder is healthy.
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Mufasa

Mufasa needs emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Mufasa has displayed defensive behavior when staff interacted with him or attempted to place him in his kennel. He was observed to growl and tense up. When moving at his pace he tolerates some handling but has not fully acclimated to the care center. Medically, Mufasa has a Canine infectious respiratory disease complex and otitis externa.
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Jenny

Jenny needs emergency placement. Jenny is social with staff when she is outside her kennel but lacks impulse control. In the kennel, Jenny was observed to jump on her kennel walls while hypersalivating. She continues this behavior despite daily enrichment to make her comfortable. Medically, Jenny has dental disease, entropion, and is on treatment for urinary concerns.
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Lunda

Lunda is in need of emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Lunda was surrendered due to an altercation with the other resident dog that resulted in Lunda biting the other dog due to resource guarding. While in the care centers, Lunda has displayed dog reactivity and has escalated to hard barking and growling at unfamiliar staff. Medically, Lunda has an ear infection.
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Rumble Bee

Rumble Bee is on emergency placement for behavioral reasons. She displays a high level of fear and may hard bark or growl when uncomfortable with direct handing or approach from strangers. She has displayed shelter stress, deterioration, and has begun to chew at kennel bars. Medically, she has a hernia.
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Maximo

Maximo needs emergency placement due to behavior concerns. He has been intensely fearful at the care center, cowering, growling at staff, and repeatedly dodging attempts to be leashed. He has allowed minimal handling. Medically, Maximo is healthy.
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Empress

Empress needs emergency placement due to deterioration. She is displaying a high level of stress in kennel, panting and hypersalivating, and kennel fighting. Empress has redirected onto a staff member as a result of her kennel fighting. She has a history of snapping and hard barking when food and treats are touched and are reported to be destructive when left alone. Medically, Empress is healthy.
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Lady R

Lady R is on emergency placement for behavioral reasons. She displays high levels of kennel stress, anxiety, and deterioration, seeking exit, jumping up and slamming on kennel bars. Medically she has dental disease, canine infectious respiratory disease complex and multiple masses.
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Mello

Mello is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Mello is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Mello exhibits high anxiety levels in the care centers and has been noticed to excessively salivate while in the kennel. When left alone without staff present, he vocalizes loudly, screaming and howling. In a previous stay, Mello started biting the kennel bars, resulting in a chipped tooth. However, outside the care centers, Mello is social and comfortable interacting with staff. Medically, Mello is underweight.
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River

River is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. He has been intensely fearful in the care center, allowing minimal handling, and begins to thrash and bite the leash when being returned to kennel. Medically, he is underweight and abdominally cryptorchid.
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Starlet

Starlet requires emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Starlet has not acclimated well to the shelter environment and is allowing for minimal handling. She has escalated to growling, snapping, and biting a handler's hand when attempting to remove her from the kennel. Once out of the kennel, she remains highly fearful and wary of interactions. Medically, Starlet is healthy.
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Newark

Newark is in need of emergency placement for behavior reasons. Newark has a low threshold for arousal and had a bite incident in his recent adoptive home. He left 1 puncture, a scratch and bruising. He also escalated to biting a staff member's shoe just after being removed from kennel. Medically, Newark is a healthy dog.
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Noah

Noah is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Noah in care has been extremely stressed in kennel, barking, licking the kennel walls and bars, and unable to settle despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Noah has begun kennel fighting intensely with other dogs and thrashes intensely on leash making it unsafe for staff to handle him. Medically, Noah has cellulitis.
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Genna

Genna needs emergency placement due to behavioral concerns. Genna has warmed up to select handlers but remains highly fearful and uncomfortable when encountering new staff or environments. He has escalated to hard barking, lunging, and thrashing while in care. Medically, Genna is healthy.
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Sage

Sage is in need of emergency placement due to behavior concerns. Sage in care has been extremely difficult to remove from kennel by staff, Sage will leash bite intensely and not being able to be redirected with treats or food. Sage outside of kennel is social, but becoming a safety concern to herself and staff. Medically, Sage is diagnosed with CIRDC.
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Lola

Recommend emergency placement for medical reasons. Lola came to the shelter with a history of asthma, she had been stable on terbutaline for some time, but once we began to taper her dose (due to being unable to stock this medication in the shelter), she began to show clinical signs. Lola will need follow up vet visits to manage her asthma and she may need emergency care if she has severe asthma attacks.
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Shadow

Shadow 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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