MEDIA COVERAGE
(Most recent articles first)
“NYC Animal Care Shelter Conditions are Disgusting” -- NY Post
“Our four-legged friends at city animal care centers suffer from respiratory disease, consume expired food and live in dirty kennels, according to a new audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer.”
“The audit found, ‘unacceptable humidity levels,’ cats, rabbits and other small animals exposed to the sounds of barking dogs, expired food, expired medication, failure to vaccinate, ‘as well as a high rate of respiratory infections.’ In some cases, it found dirty kennels and lack of clean water to drink. But conditions at the pound are so much worse than the audit report suggests. Unfortunately, the auditors did not look at those conditions. Why?”
“The New York City pound announced it is going to kill dogs and it is blaming the victims. How? It treats dogs poorly. And because it does, the dogs become stressed. And because they are stressed, City officials have announced that they will be killed.”
Peanut Butter killed with rescue on the way
Baby Kitten Ready for Adoption at NYC Pound Suddenly Killed
by Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
August 17, 2020
by Gabrielle Fonrouge
New York Post
August 17, 2020
“The new policy does not provide for any training for dogs that are ‘deemed unadoptable’ and permits the shelter to arbitrarily kill dogs” for minor behavioral issues, including ‘food guarding’ and barking at other dogs through a fence.
Pictured above with the shelter reform advocates who fought to save her, 13-yr-old PRECIOUS became the first victim of the backward new policy to kill rather than rehabilitate dogs arbitrarily labeled “unadoptable.” After Precious was killed, a candlelight vigil and protest, pictured below, was held in her honor at the Town of Oyster Bay kill pound.
Meanwhile, a legal battle is now under way to save RUBY, the next victim on the pound’s kill list. Like Precious, who was killed in spite of multiple rescue offers to save her, Ruby also has a rescue group currently fighting to save her from uncaring bureaucrats with a history of cruelty who would rather kill friendly and rehabilitatable dogs than transfer them to rescues who are willing to train them.
The Right of Rescue is a core lifesaving provision of the Companion Animal Protection Act.
The Right of Rescue is a core lifesaving provision of the Companion Animal Protection Act.
Advocates Demand Justice for Lila, Mr Magoo and Their Families, Too. . .
Lila and Mr Magoo were both illegally killed by NYC’s high-kill pound in violation of the 3-day hold, even as their loved ones arrived within a day to reclaim them, proving that the city pound fails to perform even the most basic function of an animal “shelter”: reuniting lost companions with their families.
Mr. Magoo at the NYC pound in Brooklyn
The killing of Lila was “a pet owners worst nightmare — a lost animal winds up in a shelter and killed in under 24 hours.” Lila had a microchip with her family's address. The family lives five minutes from the New York City pound. They adopted Lila from that pound 16 years earlier. The animal control officer drove by their house on the way to having Lila killed. The pound violated the stray holding period required by law by killing her. The family came to claim Lila within hours, only to be told she was already dead.
For the first time ever in a televised news broadcast, News 12 anchor Bethany Cefalu tells viewers about the Companion Animal Protection Act at the end of Lila & Mr Magoo’s story. CAPA would have saved both dogs.
Home to the largest open-intake No Kill shelter in the nation, the City of Austin passes additional CAPA protections. . .
The NYC pound mercilessly kills a severely neglected dog who had a willing adopter, falsely claiming the blind emaciated victim posed a danger to public safety. . .
The Killing of Maverick
The subject of the NY Companion Animal Protection Act first came to light nationally following media coverage of a horrifying video that was recorded on Thursday, May 9th, 2019, at the New York City pound in Manhattan. The video, leaked to advocates and posted to social media, shows a 'euth tech' attempting to block the view of a rescue volunteer who bravely kept recording as uncaring employees dragged a frightened dog named Maverick to the kill room. Maverick seemed to sense his fate and resisted his killers by lying down, showing no sign of aggression, as was reported in the New York Post:
The video shows the sedated pit bull pup being dragged on the floor before getting up and stumbling into the shelter’s kill room, while other dogs in the background loudly howl and bark... The center defended [killing] the dog — who it said was named Maverick — telling The Post he was brought to the shelter by the NYPD on April 25 at the behest of his Bronx family after allegedly biting his owner... But when Maverick was picked up by police at his former home, sources say the pooch was friendly, wagged his tail and hopped right into the back of the police cruiser where he remained calm and friendly the whole ride to the shelter.
Whimpering Dog Dragged to Kill Room at City Pound in Heartbreaking Viral Video
by Gabrielle Fonrouge & Tamar Lapin
New York Post
May 17, 2019
This is the Moment a Dog at
the City’s Pound was
Dragged to His Death
by Nathan Winograd
May 18, 2019
What They Do NOT
Want You To See
by No Kill Movement
May 17, 2019
by Gabrielle Fonrouge & Tamar Lapin
New York Post
May 17, 2019
This is the Moment a Dog at
the City’s Pound was
Dragged to His Death
by Nathan Winograd
May 18, 2019
What They Do NOT
Want You To See
by No Kill Movement
May 17, 2019
“What Pixar’s masterpiece says about how far the No Kill movement has come, how far it still has to go, the need for shelter reform legislation, and corruption within groups like the ASPCA.”
