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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Rocky B
Rocky B is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Rocky B has been observed to jump up towards handlers with a tense body and open mouth. This behavior is not able to be easily redirected using treats or squeakie sounds. During his stay in the care center Rocky B has allowed petting from handlers. Medically, Rocky B has a unspecified ocular abnormality. Rocky B is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Rocky B was returned to the Care Center as an owner surrender following a bite incident in the home. Rocky B's owner attempted to move him by the collar, Rocky B turned and snapped. The bite left a small puncture wound on his owner's hand; Rocky B's owner did note this was his only bite. During his stay at the Care Center, Rocky B has been easily leashed for walks and with time shown limited socialization with select staff. Medically, Rocky B is noted to have Microphthalmia but is otherwise apparently healthy.
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Onyx
Onyx 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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Duke Of York
Duke of York 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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Emmy
Emmy 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. Her owner describes her as aloof, independent and quiet cat. 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. Medically Emmy is overweight, but otherwise healthy.
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Tiger Tails
Tiger Tails is on the at-risk list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and is deteriorating in the Adoptions room. He is now displaying signs of frustration and overstimulation. 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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Twistyfig
Twistyfig is on the At Risk list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and is deteriorating in the Adoptions room. He is now displaying signs of boredom and frustration. 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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Wolfy
Wolfy 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 her 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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Bruno
Bruno is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns in the care center as well and in his previous home. Bruno has shown high arousal and frustration in the care center, including high level of leash biting during his reassessment and being unable to refocused with toys or treats. It is reported in his previous home that he growls, hard barks, and lunges toward strangers, dogs, and small animals on walks. When food, treats, or toys are handled, he becomes tense and hovers over the item, escalating to growling or hard barking when his warnings are not respected. Medically, Bruno has dental disease and apparently healthy.
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Minnie
Minnie is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Minnie has shown persistent fearfulness in in the care center, approaching handlers but maintaining a tense frame, tucked tail, and displaying stress signals such as lip licking and yawning during contact. She is hesitant during leashing and remains cautious in new environments, though she will lean into handlers once settled, she struggles to acclimate to the care center environment. Medically, Minnie has dental disease but is otherwise healthy.
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Mickey
Mickey is on the at-risk list due to behavior. He is an under socialized adult cat and 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 under socialized cats and helping a fearful cat adjust to strangers.
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Bentley
Bentley is at risk due to behavioral reasons. During his stay in the care center Bentley has been obsvered to be mouthie and rope reactive. Noted to mouth handlers on their hands and arms. Bentley is also obsvered to jump up and bite the leash intensely, this behavior is not easily redirectable. During one instance while biting the leash Bentley bit the handler on their tricep holding for a few seconds. This incident did not break skin. His previous owner states that he will lunge towards strangers and small animals. Medically, Bentley has unspecified dermatitis, had an incidental GI foreign body that passed/resolved in September, and otitis externa.
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Sasha
Sasha is going at risk due to behavioral concerns. Sasha came to the Care Center as an owner surrender. During her stay at the Care Center, it has been observed that she is hypersalivating in kennel. When handlers attempt to leash she is hard barking, growling, and bares teeth towards the leash along with baulking upon returning to kennel. While on walks she has a low to the ground tense posture with her tail tucked and whale eyes. She is aloof with handlers and has a tense body when they attempt to interact with her. Her previous owner states that she will hard bark and growl towards strangers, children, cars, dogs, and small animals while on leash. Owner also states that Sasha will resource guard food by growling and hard barking. Sasha also has a bite history, the resident child went to touch Sasha while she was eating and Sasha growled and snapped leaving a scrape. Sasha has general anxiety-paces, whines, unable to settle and touch sensitivity to her paws. Owner reported that Sasha is social, affectionate, very active and playful, spending majority of her time in the living room or where people are. She knows the cue to sit and has been taking treats in the Care center. She walks with a little to mild pull on walks. Medically, Sasha has CIRDC.
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Ira
Ira is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Ira has displayed high arousal and poor impulse control in the care center, including repeated leash biting, jumping up on handlers, and attempting to grab at their underarm or clothing during walks. During interactions at times he continues to jump with intensity, becoming mouthy and difficult to settle, and often requires redirection with treats. Medically, Ira has CIRDC.
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Stormi
Stormi is at risk for behavior reasons. Stormi remains sweet and social with staff and volunteers when out of kennel. However, she is highly kennel reactive and has potential to redirect onto a handler when exiting the room. She has escalated to higher level warnings, snarling at other dogs at the gate and will react on leash from a distance. She should be the only dog. Medically, she has dental disease and is overweight. Hypothyroidism ruled out as underlying cause
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Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Peanut Butter arrived at the Care Center as a stray with no known history. Upon his arrival Peanut Butter was social with staff and allowed handling for his intake medical exam. Despite efforts to keep him comfortable, Peanut Butter is showing a concerning decreasing threshold for arousal. During walks, Peanut Butter has been reported to hyper-fixate on random objects such as traffic cones, at times jumping and snapping toward handlers, and is not able to be redirected consistently. With staff and when not over threshold, Peanut Butter is social, allows petting, and is treat motivated. Medically, Peanut Butter is noted to have undetermined allergies but is otherwise healty.
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Ken
Ken is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Ken has shown deterioration behaviors and leash-biting in the care center, with saliva-smeared kennel doors and reports of grabbing the leash while trying to remove him from kennel, despite best efforts to try and keep him comfortable. Medically, Ken is apparently healthy.
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Princess
Princess is on the at-risk list for medical and behavioral concerns. Princess arrived at ACC following a bite incident with another dog in the home where Princess was the victim. Princess came to ACC her previous time also following a bite incident with the resident dog (in this instance Princess was both the victim and biter). During her assessment Princess was observed to be highly anxious and fearful. Noted to be panting and pacing around the room, and have a tense and trembling body when the handler attempted to interact. Medically, Princess has a neck wound that has healed. She also has been vomiting/regurgitating passively suggesting an esophageal issue. There is no obvious foreign body visible. She needs further diagnostics that we cannot provide.
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Baobab
Baobab 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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Buddy Bori
Buddy Bori has been placed on the At Risk list for medical reasons. His clinical signs and diagnostics support a problem with his prostate. He needs care and attention that we cannot provide.
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Murph
Murph is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Murph exhibits extremely high arousal in the care center, repeatedly jumping, spinning, and screeching in his kennel, and lunging toward other dogs in the care center as well as on walks. On occasions, he has escalated to grabbing handlers clothing, and during a interaction he made contact with a handler’s forearm and hand, leaving bruising and teeth marks but not breaking skin. Murph continues to display intense jumping, impulsive mouthing, and difficulty settling in the care center, though he can participate in training with staff readily if his arousal is maintained. Medically, Murph is apparently healthy.
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Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe 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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Lightening
Lightening is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Lightening arrived at the Care Center following a bite incident in the home. Lightening bit his previous owner on the finger when they tried to remove an item from their mouth, requiring two stitches. Additionally his previous owner reported that Lightening will escalate to hard barking, lunging, snapping and biting towards strangers, children, dogs, and cats. Lightening also universally resource guards, noted to have a tense body, growl, and snap. Lightening is also highly dog reactive and this has been observed in the Care Center. With staff Lightening has allowed handling some handling and is reported as aloof. Medically Lightening is apparently healthy.
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Bunnyrabbit
Bunnyrabbit is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Bunnyrabbit has been observed to have a low threshold for arousal and will jump up on handlers. During one instance, Bunnyrabbit began jumping and snapping at a handler after they stopped giving him treats. While jumping up high Bunnyrabbit bit and released the handlers arm. This bite did not break skin but did leave a bruise. During a separate instance, Bunnyrrabbit lunged and bit the handler's hand after exiting kennel. He then proceeded to jump up and bite the handlers jacket and treat pouch after. With handlers Bunnyrabbit is receptive to toys and treats. Medically, Bunnyrabbit has diarrhea and is underweight.
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Mikkie
Mikkie has been placed on the At Risk list for medical reasons. He has a heart murmur and needs to be in a less stressful environment. Behaviorally, Mikkie has been sweet and social - allowing all handling.
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Mime
Mime is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Mime has shown a concerning level of reactivity to other dogs while in her crate. She lunges, hard barks, and muzzle punches the bars as the pass her crate. Attempts to cover her to reduce visual stimuli has been unsuccessful due to her shredding the covers. Mime recently broke out of her crate and initiated an altercation with another dog that was being placed into its kennel. She did bite the other dog multiple times along their body, but the bites did not break skin or draw blood. In kennel, she will pant heavily and vocalize during high-traffic times of the day - cleanings, feeding, walking times, etc, Medically, Mime is apparently healthy.
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