Animal Care Centers of NYC - Staten Island — Local services in New York

Negligent and Unethical Practices at Staten Island Animal Care Center

I am compelled to share my distressing experience at the Staten Island Animal Care Center, which has left me deeply concerned about their treatment of animals. I went there to rescue a foster dog on the day she was scheduled for euthanasia, and the condition in which I found her was appalling.

The dog was negligently thrown into a crate, covered in feces, illustrating a severe lack of basic care and hygiene. When I questioned the staff about her condition, they avoided my questions and left me without any explanations, demonstrating a disturbing level of unprofessionalism.

Furthermore, I was shocked to discover that the dog had been placed on four different anxiety medications. This overmedication, especially without a proper behavioral assessment that I could see, suggests a reckless approach to animal health and wellbeing. It is especially egregious given that the dog exhibited a calm, gentle demeanor, contradicting their claim that she was a high-level behavioral risk.

The mismanagement, lack of transparency, and ethical concerns at this facility are alarming. Potential adopters and fosters should approach this center with caution and demand thorough information and accountability for the care practices observed here. This experience has highlighted a critical need for oversight and immediate improvement at...

DO NOT RESCUE FROM HERE!

I rescued a Guinea Pig from this shelter September 17th. We brought him home and noticed he had a slight head tilt. His medical records were clean, so we trusted the shelter.

His head tilt progressed to get worse. I brought him into the vet last week and got him antibiotics $188 bill. His head tilt proceeded to get worse that his teeth starting growing in sideways which made it hard for him to eat vegetables.

Today we had to euthanize him. His head tilt happened to be from an ear infection and it spread to his brain. It would cost $3500 to perform surgery.

The cages in the shelter are not kept properly up to standards, they are in cat cages, drinking water out of bowls on the floor instead of water bottles and it was filthy. I thought we were doing a great thing rescuing from there and giving him a better life. But we rescued a sick animal.

The reason we adopted from there was because we needed a cage mate for our one pig since our 8 1/2 year old passed away.

It would have been 2 months tomorrow. His ashes are being spred respectfully...

This place has nowhere to interact with the animal your trying to adopt. Was let out a back door by dumpsters close to a busy high Traffic area to get acquainted. Also I never seen so many people running around and doing absolutely nothing (felt like I was in a n.j tacobell). Staff had no Evaluation on this one particular animal. Simple questions like ,Is it anmial aggressive, Good with children, Food aggressive, house trained, etc etc, You know things you would need to know before you adopt could not be answered.. I was told level 1 temperament so we don't think so..... but we did not have enough time to evaluate???? BTW I walk in this place to adopt and stood at the front counter for over 10 minutes while multiple staff members passd by and was never asked if I needed any help , They were more concerned about socializing with each other. Possible adopters or the animals are NOT top priority in this place. One extra star because I found...