$5M Aids City No-kill Pet Goal - by Amy Sacks, New York Daily News - Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, Inc. - Working with the City of New York to promote dog and cat adoption and spay and neuter programs to make New York a no-kill city.

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Monday, May 24, 2004

The ASPCA tossed city animals a potentially lifesaving $5 million bone yesterday.

The contribution to the Mayor's Alliance for New York City's Animals comes with an ambitious goal: the end of animal euthanasia at city shelters by 2010.

"We're going to make New York City the second no-kill city in the country," said ASPCA President Ed Sayres, who presented the oversize check during a pet adopt-a-thon at the Central Park Bandshell.

In 1990, San Francisco became the first city to end euthanasia of any healthy, adoptable animal. The Mayor's Alliance, a coalition of more than 60 local non-profit rescue groups and shelters, formed here in 2002 with the same goal.

An estimated 40,000 cats and dogs are killed every year at the New York Center for Animal Care and Control, the city's municipal shelter. Some 150 animals land in the city shelter every day.

The $5 million will go toward increasing adoptions and raising public awareness about the importance of spaying and neutering pets, officials said.