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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Yuro
Yuro is at-risk list due to behavioral concerns. In the Care Centers, Yuro has displayed concerning resource-guarding behaviors. During his first stay, he grabbed the Assess-a-Hand multiple times, and during his current stay he has been observed gripping, tensing, and grumbling. Yuro was also observed biting his leash in the kennel and only responding to high-value treats. More recently, he was noted to engage in kennel fighting while exiting the room. Outside of the kennel environment, Yuro is social with staff. Medically, Yuro is apparently healthy.
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Slips
Slips 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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Yosemite
Yosemite is on the at-risk 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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Squirrel
Squirrel 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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Shadowpaw
Shadowpaw is at risk due to ongoing, distance increasing behaviors displayed in care. He is an under socialized cat who may not have had many interactions with humans from an early age. He is currently quick to lunge, hiss, and swat with nails extended during interactions. These behaviors have made cleaning tasks more difficult for staff to complete as he is much quicker to escalate. Due to these behaviors, Shadowpaw had to be moved into a lower traffic room. Staff have reported that in this room, he still continues to escalate. He would benefit from being placed into a stable home where he can be given the appropriate space to decompress. Medically, he has stage III dental disease.
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Snow White
Snow White is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display challenging, distance increasing behaviors. During cleaning hours, she is quick to lunge, hiss, and swat out at staff. These behaviors make successful interactions difficult. Upon arriving at the care center, she tolerated minimal pets and currently does not tolerate any form of handling. It is in her best interest to move out of the kennel environment and into a stable home as quickly as possible. Snow White would benefit from a low traffic home with an experienced adopter. Medically, she is overweight and has mild dental disease.
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Eloise
Eloise is on the at-risk list for medical concerns. He has very painful gum disease, and he gets agitated if you go near his mouth. He is eating some canned food, but he is underweight and unthrifty. He may need full-mouth, teeth extractions and anti-inflammatory medications. He needs care and attention that we cannot provide.
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Merlot
Merlot is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns in the care center and in his previous home. In the prior home, Merlot was reported to display resource guarding and attempted to bite by lunging and snapping during one incident, though no contact with skin was made. In the care center, Merlot displays high arousal, including hard pulling, frantic movement in new environments, and significant reluctance to return to his kennel, often pancaking and requiring multiple handlers, treat trails, or coaxing to complete kennel re-entry. Merlot is social with handlers, enjoys training, learns new cues readily, and engages well with toys and food reinforcement. Medically, Merlot is apparently healthy.
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Victoria
Victoria is at risk for behavior reasons. Victoria has been showing conflicting behavior during socialization. She can become quickly aroused, jumping up at staff with tense body, ears back. She has behaved well on walks. Medically, she has some dental disease, signs of chronic otitis and a dermal mass.
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Ms Chili Peppa
Ms. Chili Peppa is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. In the care center, Ms. Chili Peppa displays fearful and conflicted behavior during leash handling, including growling, lunging toward handlers' hands, barking, retreating from the leash, whale eye, and vigilance during kennel removal. She also displays high arousal once out of the kennel, including hard pulling and jumping toward handlers and the leash. Ms. Chili Peppa is social once comfortable, seeks out affection, leans into petting, and is able to be safely handled and returned to her kennel with appropriate management but intermittently has issues with being removed from kennel from select staff. Medically, Ms. Chili Peppa has CIRDC.
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Astrid
Astrid is on the At Risk list due to behavior. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display challenging behavior during interactions. She is extremely intelligent, highly social, and needs to expend energy constructively with interactive play sessions 3-4X/day. She displays a very short threshold for touch, although soliciting the attention and can escalate to high levels of overstimulation and reactivity. 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 feline body language, overstimulation, rough play, and who have the time to invest in managing these behaviors on a consistent basis to avoid (further) bite/scratch incidents.
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Pucci
Pucci needs at risk placement for medical reasons. He is a sweet cat with severe inflammation of his eyelids and conjunctiva that is not responding to supportive care in shelter. He needs placement in a veterinary clinic and then a peaceful home to recover.
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Kingston
Kingston is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Kingston has been highly social with staff and handlers in care, leaning into petting, engaging with toys, snuffle mats, and enrichment games in calmer settings. But he recently has begun to leash bite when being removed from the kennel and is kennel fighting with other dogs as he is walked out of the room, which has made taking him for walks challenging. On one occasion, Kingston did redirect onto a staff member's leg, nipping them. Due to this, he was returned to his kennel, and his walk was not completed due to his behavior. Medically, Kingston has an ear infection.
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Miu Miu
Miu Miu is on the At Risk list due to behavior. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display challenging behavior during interactions. She is extremely intelligent and high energy, and needs to expend energy constructively with interactive play sessions 3-4X/day. In addition to playtime, this cat would also benefit from mental exercise from activities such as puzzle toys/games, lick mats, or clicker training. Without providing activity for her mind and body, the cat may react with rough play, potentially resulting in bite/scratch incidents. It is in his/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 feline body language, overstimulation, rough play, and who have the time to invest in managing these behaviors on a consistent basis to avoid further bite/scratch incidents.
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Kibou
Kibou needs at risk placement for medical reasons. She is a young, sweet dog with a severe anemia. She is eating and receiving treatment for possible intestinal parasite and tick-borne disease exposure. Kibou also had a syncopal episode with no clear cause. She needs placement in a veterinary clinic for further testing to determine the reason for her condition.
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Hershey
Hershey is at risk due to behavioral concerns in the care center. He has shown leash reactivity and kennel fighting toward other dogs, He is also noted to react to dogs in nearby kennels and pop-up crates. On walks when seeing other dogs he will hard pull on leash with a tense body, causing himself to choke and salivate. During walks, handlers use treats and toys for redirection, but he does not always respond to them. With handlers, Hershey displays social behavior, maintaining a loose body and leaning into petting. Medically Hershey is apparently healthy.
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Banana Cream Pie

Banana Cream Pie is at risk due to behavior concerns. Banana has show increasing shelter stress and dog reactivity while in care. In kennel, she has been observed to jump up and down and heavily pant. She fixates on dogs on the street as well as in the shelter, hard staring, pulling hard, and barking towards other dogs. She is sometimes able to be redirected with squeakers while outside at a distance from other dogs, but is not able to be redirected with treats or a squeaker in close proximity. Banana's previous owner states that she will growl and hard bark when seeing dogs and moving objects while on leash. Banana has also shown signs of fearfulness while in care. Banana's previous owner notes that she will become tense and hover over food and random objects, and has frequent accidents in the home. She was described to be very playful and hyperactive in the home. Medically, Banana Cream Pie is slightly underweight but otherwise apparently healthy.
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Mama Coco
Mama Coco is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Mama Coco was recently returned to the care center due to fearful behavior being observed while in foster. It was reported that Mama Coco would struggle settling around strangers, would bark and growl. While in the care center, Mama Coco has been observed to be highly kennel reactive. Noted to pull hard towards the other dogs in the kennel room. After being put into kennel, Mama Coco has attempted to push out in order to continue behavior. While out on walks with handlers Mama Coco will walk on a loose leash, will accept pets, and warms up with slow approach. Medically, Mama Coco has small wound on ear that is healing but otherwise healthy.
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Gray
Gray is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Gray came to us with no known history aside from being nervous and fearful when separated from owner. While in care, Gray has been observed to be highly fearful as well. Noted to growl, bare teeth, and snarl when handlers approach then while in kennel. Has been seen playing with her toys in kennel from a distance. Medically, Gray has small wound on thigh thatis healing but overall currently healthy.
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Thor
Thor is on the At Risk list due to behavior. While social with certain handlers, he continues to display challenging behavior during interactions. He is extremely intelligent and high energy, and needs to expend energy constructively with interactive play sessions 3-4X/day. In addition to playtime, this cat would also benefit from mental exercise from activities such as puzzle toys/games, lick mats, or clicker training. Without providing activity for his mind and body, the cat may react with rough play, potentially resulting in bite/scratch incidents. 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 feline body language, overstimulation, rough play, and who have the time to invest in managing these behaviors on a consistent basis to avoid further bite/scratch incidents.
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Button Blue
Button Blue is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. In the care center, Button Blue displays fearful behavior during handling, including growling, hard barking, retreating from the leash, startling at sudden noises, and balking during walks. He also displays on-leash reactivity toward other dogs, particularly small dogs, barking and pulling toward them while moving through the building. Button Blue is able to be leashed with patient handling and food or toy reinforcement, and is slowly acclimating but is still struggling. Medically, Button Blue is recieving treatment for CIRDC.
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Valor
Valor is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. In the care center, Valor displays high arousal behaviors including leash biting, hard pulling, jumping, hypersalivation, and lunging or fixating on other dogs while on leash. During one handling interaction, Valor approached an assessor with a stiff body and cornered them until redirected by the handler. Valor is highly food motivated, responds well to reinforcement-based training, engages appropriately with enrichment, and has learned cues such as sit, focus, and breath work. Medically, Valor is apparently healthy.
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Angel
Angel is on the At Risk list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and is deteriorating in the Adoptions room and no longer tolerates petting or handling, escalating very quickly when approached for socialization and during kennel cleaning. 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 and who have experience with helping a fearful cat adjust to strangers.
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Ocho
Ocho is on the at-risk 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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Green Bin
Green Bin 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 his plenty of time and space to adjust, and who have experience with helping a fearful cat adjust to strangers.
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