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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Labubu
Labubu is on the at-risk due to behavior concerns. Labubu in the care center has not been acclimating well to the shelter environment, despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Initially, Labubu was intensely fearful in care, and has warmed up but has now began to display an increasingly poor kennel presence, baring teeth and hard barking when approached in his kennel and when removed begins to kennel fight passing kennels making it difficult to walk him safely at times. Medically, Labubu is apparently healthy.
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Rhonda
Rhonda is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Rhonda arrived at the Care Centers as a stray and was noted to be fearful during her intake, observed with low growling and baring teeth despite the use of treats and slow approaches to leash her. Throughout her stay Rhonda has slowly warmed up to handlers and has allowed handling when a slow approach is used. However in kennel Rhonda is still noted to display a tense body and show whale eye. Medically, Rhonda is apparently healthy.
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Night
Night is on the at-risk list due to behavior. 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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Onyx Junis
Onyx Jinx 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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Nevada

Nevada is on the at-risk list due to behavior. He is an under socialized adult cat and is not thriving in the care center. He 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 an under socialized and fearful cat adjust to strangers and new environments.
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Trudy
Trudy is on the at-risk list due to behavior. She is not thriving in the care center and continues to display distance-increasing she 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. 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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Elliot
Elliot is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Elliot was noted to be fearful during his intake, however shortly after warmed up to staff to allow for leashing for walks, is treat motivated, and is social with familiar staff. Recently, Elliot has started to show increased signs of deterioration and reactivity. When Elliot first arrived he was noted to show moderate reactivity to dogs with visual fixation; however this has now escalated to pulling hard to occupied pop-up crates and pulling to dogs across the street with tense body that is now difficult to redirect with stimuli or treats. Elliot has also been noted to be deteriorating in kennel, digging at the transfer door, lifting it enough to allow for intense kennel fighting with neighboring dog. Blood was found in his kennel after the incident. Medically, Elliot is apparently healthy.
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Roe
Roe is at risk due to behavioral concerns. Roe was observed to be fearful during her intake with tense body and tucked tail. Despite efforts to keep Roe comfortable, she has remained fearful and allowed minimal handling. Roe at times has been hesitant to exit her kennel and has remained highly fearful during walks with tense body, low head position, tucked tail, pancaking, and often baulks refusing to walk once outside. Recently, Roe is also showing signs of deterioration; she has been noted to cover her kennel in feces and be persistently jumping in her kennel. Medically, Roe is apparently healthy.
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Motown
Motown has been placed on the at-risk list for medical reasons. He is diabetic and not eating well. He stressed in the shelter. He needs care and attention that we cannot provide.
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Buddy
Buddy is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Buddy has been increasingly displaying reactivity towards other dogs when passing there kennels and strangers on walks, lunging at a stranger. Buddy has not been acclimating well in his kennel, jumping on his kennel door and barking throughout the day despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Medically, Buddy is a senior dog with periodontal disease but other wise in good health currently.
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Mia
Mia is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns in care and in her previous home. Mia in the care center remains highly fearful and anxious, scaling her kennel walls in kennel, growling, baring teeth and retreating in her kennel when staff approach and attempt to handle her. Mia has been slowly allowing more handling being removed from kennel, but remains highly fearful, seeking exit, low body and avoiding interaction. Mia in her previous home is reported to avoid, hard barks, and lunges at strangers and children. Medically, Mia is apparently healthy.
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Thor Blues
Thor Blues is at risk for medical reasons. He has a corneal ulcer and needs further diagnostics, along with eye medication that we are unable to provide, in order to recover. Behaviorally, he enjoys greeting familiar handlers.
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Mars
Mars is at risk due to behavior concerns. She arrived at the care centers as a stray with no known history. Since her arrival, she has displayed some very high levels of fear, anxiety, and stress. During her intake, she was observed to lip curl, snarl, and growl when approached. She will take higher value treats when prompted. Throughout her stay, she has allowed some handling but has remained highly fearful and avoidant of handlers, reported to retreat and growl when they interact with her. Medically, she has CIRDC that is progressing to pneumonia.
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Grapefruit
Grapefruit is at risk due to behavior concerns. He arrived at the care centers as a stray with little known history. Grapefruit was friendly with staff during his intake, jumping on them in a social manner, tolerated handling, but baulked when he was taken to kennel, a sling was used. He was also reported to be treat receptive during his medical exam. However, throughout his stay, Grapefruit has been reported to be both kennel and on-leash reactive, often observed to get a tense body and lunge at dog and people on the street. As he is either being returned or removed from kennel, Grape fruit will fixate on the other kennels, growl, and push himself of the wall to get closer to the other dogs. Due to his escalating and intense reactivity, he is only being walked on the street as he will hyper fixate on dogs in the yard and is not easily redirected. With handlers, he is often neutral but as of recently will duck behind handlers, pulling towards them, and intensely sniffing them before disengaging. Medically, he is apparently has CIRDC.
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Oreo Cookie
Oreo Cookie is on the at-risk list for medical reasons. She is a young cat with a poor appetite due to an upper respiratory infection and asthma. She needs a low stress environment in order to recover.
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Sasha
Sasha is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Sasha in the care center remains intensely fearful despite best efforts to keep her comfortable. Sasha will hard bark at the front of her kennel, and when removed avoids interaction from staff, is hypervigilant and remains shutdown. Medically, Sasha has started treatment for CIRDC.
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Prince
Prince is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Prince in the care center has been not acclimating well despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Prince is heard digging at his kennel door repeatedly, even during quiet hours. Prince out of his kennel is social with staff, but struggling to acclimate inside of his kennel. Medically, Prince is diagnosed with CIRDC.
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Spice
Spice is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns. Spice in the care center has not been acclimating despite best efforts to keep him comfortable. Spice in his kennel will hypersalivate, and is observed to rebound off his kennel door. Spice is social with staff outside of his kennel, but is reluctant to go back to his kennel, pancaking and refusing to walk, having to be carried at times back. Medically, Spice is apparently healthy.
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Woody
Woody is at Risk due to behavior concerns. Upon arrival Woody was noted to be social with staff, highly treat motivated, and despite being tense at times was able to complete his intake medical exam allowing all handling. Woody has been noted to be consistently highly reactive to dogs, both kennel fighting and pulling towards dogs with tense body and visually fixating. While he has been able to be briefly redirected with verbal cues or treats, Woody will persistently try to re-establish line of sight to dogs. During his dog-dog interaction, Woody muzzle punched the gate between him and a the greeter dog with growling and tense body. On one occasion, Woody was noted to hard stare at a child across the street with tense body and had to pulled away by his harness. Woody is also starting to show significant signs of deterioration in kennel. Woody chewed through a part of the kennel wall, causing him to bleed with significant amount of blood found on kennel wall and floor. Medically, Woody is noted to be recovering from CIRDC – Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease Complex, have dental disease, and be underweight.
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Princess Piper

Princess Piper is at risk due to behavior concerns. Her previous owner stated that she is on leash reactive and will lunge, hard bark, and growl towards dogs. Additionally, she is also people reactive, noted to actively lunge at them while snarling and hard barking. In a recent incident in the care centers, Princess lunged towards a person that was walking past in the stairwell and she bit and held their pants causing a small tear. She has warmed up to some staff and has allowed handling. Medically, she apparently has a mass and nuclear sclerosis.
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Gilbert
Gilbert is at risk due to behavioral reasons. Gilbert arrived at MACC following a bite incident. The finder attempted to remove an object from Gilbert's mouth and he escalated to biting the finder on the leg. This bite did break skin and resulted in five puncture wounds. During his stay in the care center Gilbert has allowed handling. Medically Gilbert has paraparesis.
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Kane

Kane is on the at-risk due to behavior concerns reported in his previous home. Kane does have a bite history, and was reported in his previous home after an argument, walked up to the owner and bit them on there leg, leaving two punctures and drawing blood. Kane was also reported to bite a person in the face as they were putting him into a crate, leaving a small cut that did break skin. Medically, Kane has CIRDC and dental disease.
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Hurricane
Hurricane is on the at-risk list due to behavior concerns in the care center and in his previous home. Hurricane in the care center during interactions has trouble settling on his own, and remains highly anxious despite best efforts to help him settle. Hurricane during interactions with heavily pant, head whip on touch, and increasingly becomes over aroused mouthing and thrashing on leash. In his previous home, it is noted that Hurricane will growl or snap if his food is approached. Medically, Hurricane is healthy.
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Knox

Knox is on the at-risk for behavior concerns. Knox entered the care center with a previous bite, after being supposedly hit by a car. Knox when being picked up turned and bit a staff member, bite holding and shaking, breaking skin and drawing blood. Medically, Knox has some lameness in his left hind leg.
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Marigold
Marigold is on the at-risk list for medical reasons. Marigold is a sweet cat with an aural mass that should be removed and biopsied. She also has otitis and dental disease which will need to be addressed with a veterinarian. Behaviorally, she has allowed handling and is sweet.
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