Puppy Kitty NYC and Greenpoint Cats on Shelter Cats Podcast
Rescuers are operating in the most resource-deprived environment they’ve ever known with increasingly scarce discounted spay-neuter appointments and a misguided perception from the wealthy neighborhoods of Manhattan, that the city is providing adequate (or any) animal welfare services, when overstretched volunteers are competing for crumbs of appointments, Hunger Games style.
Shelter Cats podcast interviewed Jonlyn Freeman from NYC Cat Rescuer Alliance, Becky Wisdom from Greenpoint Cats and Meagan Licari from Puppy Kitty NYC. Start at 10 minutes to hear from the rescuers.
(Content correction: at around 28 minutes, Jonlyn mentions that city budget allocated to ACC is 1.6% of the NYPD budget. It’s actually .17%)