ASPCA in the News: ASPCA Mobile Animal Clinic To Provide Low-Cost Neutering Services

NY1.com

Instead of pet owners going to the vet for the spaying or neutering their pet, the American Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals is bringing the vet to pet owners across the five boroughs.

The organization has a mobile animal clinic that is now offering free and low-cost spaying and neutering to low-income pet owners. The foundation said it hopes to provide the service to about 15,000 animals.

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ASPCA in the News: "Cat That Nearly Hit Passer-By Was Thrown"

The New York Sun
"Cat That Nearly Hit Passer-By Was Thrown"
By Bradley Hope

A Brooklyn man is facing a felony charge after he allegedly threw his cat out a third-story window last month, officials said yesterday.

Don Carter, 24, defenestrated the 6-pound cat, Midnight, on October 18 after she trespassed into a bedroom where she wasn't supposed to roam, officials said. Agents from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday arrested Carter, who has a history of convictions for drug crimes.

He faces up to four years in prison on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty, a spokesman for the ASPCA, Joseph Pentangelo, said. Carter was also charged with reckless endangerment because the cat nearly hit a passer-by, he said.

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Press Release: ASPCA HLE Officers Seize 700 Chickens

(NEW YORK, NY) October 3, 2006 -- Humane Law Enforcement agents with the ASPCA are investigating a possible case of animal cruelty in which hundreds of chickens were discovered in a garage at 18th Avenue and 52nd Street in Brooklyn.

On Monday, ASPCA investigators removed more than 700 chickens, housed in shallow crates, and took them to the ASPCA’s 92nd Street headquarters, where they will be evaluated by veterinary staff at the ASPCA’s Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital.

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