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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Sunny
Sunny is at risk due to her behavioral concerns in care. Sunny has not adjusted well to the care center environment has displayed a high level of fearfulness such as a tense body, tucked tail, widened eyes, and avoidance of handler interaction. During handling, she has shown touch sensitivity, whale eye, and defensive behaviors, including head whipping and an air snap toward a handler. Medically Sunny has Dental Disease.
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Niko
Niko is on the at-risk list for medical reasons. He has difficulty defecating because he has muscle weakness in his rectal tissue (perineal hernia). He needs care, attention and, potentially, surgery that we cannot provide.
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Toby
Toby 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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Tesla
Tesla is on at the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Tesla in care is struggling to acclimate to his kennel environment despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Tesla has began to display poor kennel presence, lunging and hard barking at his kennel door when approached and is observed to rebound off his kennel walls throughout the day. Medically, Tesla has a heart murmur.
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty is at-risk due to behavior concerns. He arrived at the care centers as a stray with no known history. During his intake he allowed handling, but had a tense body, was hard staring, retreated from staff, began barking at them, and had to be muzzled. He is reported to be very food motivated. Throughout his stay he has been observed to hard stare towards people on dogs while on leash. In care, he refuses to re-enter the kennel room if the fan is turned on, and sometime has to be jogged in. He was reported to be jumpy but redirectable, but as of recently, he has deteriorated and has become more challenging to redirect. At the beginning of the month, staff reported an incident where they were in the elevator with Black Beauty when he began to jump onto the handler in a very frantic manner and began mouthing them. In a recent incident, Black Beauty began jumping up at a handler and actually bit and released their shirt, no contact was made. On his walks he never settles and is constantly displaying very frantic behavior, pacing, darting in all directions, scrambling, pulling very hard and abruptly stopping to intensely scratching himself, a displacement behavior. During attempting training sessions, he remains above threshold, unable to retain his focus, and even escalates to whining. He does not engage or is receptive to high value treats, squeakers, or pattern games. Medically, he is apparently healthy.
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Rocco
Rocco is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Rocco in the care center is not acclimating well despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Rocco in his kennel with growl and hard bark at staff at times when trying to handle him, and on walks in highly reactive towards other dogs in the care center, lunging and hard barking but is social on approach with familiar handlers. Rocco has some arousal concerns as well, jumping towards handlers faces and becomes easily arousal with little stimuli. Medically, Rocco is apparently healthy.
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Boss
Boss is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Boss in the care center has shown arousal concerns in care, as well as some stranger danger during his time in the care center. Boss when out on walks or during interaction will easily become over aroused, jumping on staff incessantly and beginning to mouth staff limbs/clothing. Boss has also displayed some stranger danger, hard barking and growling at unfamiliar staff in the halls or in the office spaces. Medically, Boss has CIRDC and happy tail.
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Eclipse
Eclipse is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Eclipse arrived at the Care Center as a stray and was fearful during his intake. Eclipse has shown improvement with familiar handlers, allowing to be leashed, and tolerant of some contact since his arrival. Eclipse has shown kennel reactivity since early in his stay, notably growling at neighboring kennels when returning to kennel, and hard stare at dogs when on leash. Recently however, Eclipse has shown increased reactivity to dogs and has escalated to make it difficult to handle him safely. During the morning walk of 9/3/25, when returning from a morning walk Eclipse was observed to kennel fight- trying to pull towards occupied kennels with tense body and open mouth, treats and toys were ineffective at redirecting him; Eclipse then tried to redirect with open mouth toward handlers mid-section and to be stiff-armed away for safety and muscled into kennel. Medically, Eclipse is noted to have dental disease, recovering from CIRDC, and is noted to be underweight.
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Joseph
Joseph 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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Officer Friendly
Officer Friendly is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Officer Friendly is struggling to acclimate in his kennel despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Officer Friendly will lunge at his kennel door, and jump incessantly off of his door during the day. Officer Friendly is social with staff, but struggling to acclimate. Medically, Officer Friendly is apparently healthy.
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Chase
Chase is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Chase arrived at the Care Center as an owner surrender. During his intake, Chase was observed to be highly reactive to people and staff in lobby, growling and lunging as they walked by. His previous owner noted that she had cared for Chase for over a year, and that Chase has been persistently barking, and highly reactive. Chase was reported by his previous owner to growl, hard-bark, and attempt to bite guests entering the home or people when on walks. Two weeks prior to being at the Care Center, Chase bit another dog on the lip area after initially seeming to be loose and wiggly bodied on approach. Medically, Chase has dental disease and CIRDC which is progressing to pneumonia.
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Prince Berdecia
Prince Berdecia is at risk for medical reasons. Prince has chronic skin + ear issues that have gone untreated for a long duration of time. In shelter we have begun to manage his skin infection, but his otitis is so chronic that he needs more care than we can provide. Prince needs further work up and surgical intervention than is possible in a shelter setting.
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Winnie The Pooh
Winnie the Pooh 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 her 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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Tygrese
Tygrese 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 his 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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Ghost
Ghost is on the At Risk list due to behavior. He is not thriving in the care center and 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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Whiskey
Whiskey is on the at-risk list for behavior concerns. Whiskey in the care center has not been acclimating despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Whiskey in the care center has began to growl, bare teeth and snarl in attempts to remove him from kennel at times but is slowly warming up once removed from kennel. During interactions, Whiskey appears anxious and will begin to mount staff as well. Medically, Whiskey has an ear infection.
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