Queens ACC opens as first-ever public animal shelter in Queens
A new, $75 million city-funded animal shelter in Queens is disturbingly overcrowded with rescue pets – which are crammed into too-small cages, provided with insufficient food and living in their own filth, The Post has learned.Dogs at the new shelter are crammed into too-small cages and provided with insufficient food and exercise time, leading to dogs soiling their own cramped quarters, whistleblowers and Council Member Bob Holden say.
ACC specifically got $75 million out of its billion-dollar-plus contract to run the Ridgewood shelter — which they opened just last month. When confronted with the situation at the Queens shelter, the nonprofit tried to explain it away by saying it’s facing “high levels” of shelter pets at the site and has not yet finished hiring all the staff required to meet its needs.
Some of the shelter’s first dogs came from an existing Brooklyn ACC shelter that’s slated to be undergoing renovations until 2026.A worker who gave her name only as Megan showed The Post a dog named Coco – who was given up after her owner had a baby and who lives inside her cage all day, save for four quick walks a day.
“It’s distressing for a lot of our dogs to go to the bathroom ,” one source told The Post. “Many are housebroken, and it can be an emotionally distressing thing.” “The general response is, ‘we’re understaffed, there’s a nationwide crisis,’” another source told The Post, “but management is on site every day. They see this.”
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