Contrary to this fake news story in the @NYPost: bit.ly/3z4wQEg, New Yorkers are NOT returning their pets. Had editors at the tabloid bothered to check, they would’ve known that @NYCACC was lying, b/c the pound’s own stats show intakes fell 40% from pre-pandemic levels! 
No, New Yorkers did not “return pandemic pets” in June, as was falsely reported by the @NYPost. Stats show that @NYCACC took in 895 fewer cats & dogs in June than it did in the same period prior 2 the onset of the pandemic, a 40% decline in intakes that proves the story is FAKE!
@NYCACC’s publicist & notorious liar Katy Hansen, colluded w/a dumb or dishonest @NYPost ‘reporter’ 2 further a false narrative that ACC is overflowing w/so many ‘unwanted’ pets that they have 2 b killed. Days after the story appeared, ACC admitted returns were @ an all-time low.
Let’s face it, if any other city agency flat-out lied to the media, it would make headlines! @nypost needs 2 retract the story. Ten days after the story appeared, @NYCACC’s propagandist Katy Hansen had trouble keeping her lies straight, contradicting herself in the comment below:
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