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Shelter Spotlight
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Center for Animal Care and Control
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Since June is Adopt a Shelter Cat month, we've decided to observe it in a couple of ways. The first was the new series of Shelter Sheets, which were designed to help cats that are adopted stay adopted. This week we're starting with a tribute to various shelters and the selfless folks who staff them and volunteer for the sake of the animals.
Being a shelter worker is often a thankless, heartbreaking job with a few rewards scattered here and there in the form of a lick on the hand, or a frenzy of purring as a cat or dog is introduced to its new human family.
Our first spotlighted shelter is the Center for Animal Care and Control (CACC) of New York, with facilities in each of the five boroughs. CACC is New York's only open admission shelter, and takes in close to 60,000 homeless animals annually. In 2000, its five facilities took in 28,901 cats alone.
A well-organized volunteer program helps with the goal of providing the highest quality of animal care to the community. Pets are carefully screened for suitability to adoption, and are vaccinated, spayed or neutered, and microchipped before being released for adoption. A foster care program provides the special quality of life missing in a shelter environment, but crucial for queens with litters or feral kittens that need socialization before moving into a permanent home.
Facilities:
- CACC - Manhattan
326 East 110 Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
212-722-3620
Adoption Hours: Adoptions from 11am to 6pm, 7 Days a Week (please call shelter for holiday hours)
Listing of adoptable pets.
- CACC - Brooklyn
2336 Linden Blvd.
718-272-7200
Adoption Hours: From 12pm to 7pm, Monday thru Saturday; 12pm through 5pm on Sunday
Listing of adoptable pets.
- CACC - Staten Island
3139 Veterans Road West
718-984-6643
Adoptions from 10am to 7pm, Monday thru Friday;10am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday
Listing of adoptable pets.
- CACC - Queens
92-29 Queens Blvd., Rego Park
718-997-6330
Open from 8am to 4pm, Tuesday thru Saturday.
Adoptions from 11am to 3pm
This facility has a very limited number of animals available for adoption at any given time. Please call before visiting.
- CACC - Bronx
464 East Fordham Road
718-733-0743
Open from 8am to 4pm, Tuesday thru Saturday
Adoptions from 11am to 3pm
This facility has a very limited number of animals available for adoption at any given time. Please call before visiting.
- Administrative Office
11 Park Place, Suite 805, New York, NY 10007
212-442-2076
Shelter information line: 1(888) SPAY-NYC
Animal Rescue: (718) 649-8600
If you're in the New York area, you could do yourself no bigger favor than adopting a cat in need from one of CACC's shelters. You might even want to consider volunteering at the shelter or fostering cats. Let's make this June a banner month for the cats in need, as well as the devoted workers at CACC!
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