On his official account, Adams mentioned that the cash can be used to rent 14 new staffers and “increase capacity to better care for our pets.”
“In the concrete jungle, we take care of all our animals,” he wrote on his workplace account, encouraging New Yorkers to undertake an animal.
Mayor Eric Adams walks down the steps of Metropolis Corridor at a marketing campaign rally on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Day by day Information)
Town company answerable for homeless pets was pleased to obtain the extra funds.
“We are grateful to have extra funding to hire more staff to care for more animals,” a spokeswoman for Animal Care Facilities of NYC mentioned Saturday.
Final week the company introduced it was caring for greater than 1,000 shelter animals at one time and wouldn’t be capable of soak up any extra pets.
Cats obtainable for adoption are pictured on the Brooklyn Animal Care Middle on this file photograph. (Kevin C Downs for New York Day by day Information)
Citing a “critical capacity issue,” the ACC suspended normal consumption, however mentioned it might stay open for adoptions, plus drop-offs of animals that require emergency medical care, are a public security danger or are dropped off by authorities businesses, officers mentioned.
The 1,000th pet taken in was a canine named Rocky, who had lived along with his household for the previous seven years, however his homeowners needed to give him up.
Rocky was amongst 382 grownup canines in ACC’s care, together with 13 puppies, 383 cats, 163 kittens, 47 rabbits, 12 guinea pigs and a number of other birds. ACC additionally presently has 290 pets in foster care, with 180 obtainable for adoption straight from their foster properties, company officers mentioned.
A cat that is obtainable for adoption is pictured on the Brooklyn Animal Care Middle on this file photograph. (Kevin C Downs for New York Day by day Information)
The reason for certainly one of each three pets being given over to ACC this yr is housing insecurity, with their homeowners having to relocate to a smaller place and unable to maintain their pet or transferring out of town as a result of excessive price of residing and being unable to take their pet with them, in accordance with ACC research.
Mayor Adams, in asserting the transfer on each his workplace and mayoral marketing campaign X accounts, turned the monetary enhance into an election subject that Republican Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa has sunk his tooth into.
The Guardian Angels founder, and identified cat lover, on Friday scoffed that the funding is “a drop in the bucket.”
“The city has completely ignored animal welfare,” he wrote. “ACC has a 34-year contract worth over $1B — and yet our shelters are overcrowded, surrenders are paused, and animals are suffering.”
Cats obtainable for adoption are pictured on the Brooklyn Animal Care Middle on this file photograph. (Kevin C Downs for New York Day by day Information)
Along with adopting pets, ACC is urging pet homeowners to rehome their animals if they will now not take care of them — and likewise to only “try to figure out a way to keep your pet.”
Amid the continued animal shelter disaster, ACC is encouraging New Yorkers to undertake pets, which they will view on NYACC.org.
Initially Revealed: July 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM EDT
