There is a huge trend to take dogs from other states even tho we certainly do have an adequate amount of homeless dogs in New York.  Many of the most viable adoptions shelters in the New York area truck numerous puppies and kittens from shelters down south where spaying & neutering is frowned upon and the unwanted litters are put into animal control facilities that hold them for a certain number of days and then they are put to death for no other reason that the large number of them.  My problem with that is that when their puppy cuteness ebbs, teenage and young adult dogs work their way into our shelters creating huge over population.  Even tho the pups are temporarily saved, what becomes of the older unwanted dogs that end up in these shelters?  Of course no one choses them when adorable puppies are available.  New York has had quite a bit of success with spaying and neutering for many, many years and has clearly resulted in fewer homeless dogs and many fewer being put to death for lack of a home.  I think all that will now change due to the influx.  All that being said, I do think there are special homes in this area for the tiny dogs from Ca.  They are quite desirable here and sadly most shelters now have pits or pit mixes which are the least appropriate for NYC apartments.   At least the people wanted to adopt from the ASPCA will have a viable choice, a tiny dog for a small city apartment.

California has so many good rescuers trying to clean up after all the shallow Hollywood types. It is hard to keep up with those irresponsible idiots.