Animal Adoption Veterinary Center

The Animal Adoption Veterinary Center is brought to you by charitable organizations. Our brand new state-of-the-art facility is the most centrally located animal facility in the NY-NJ-CT tri state. Conveniently located on the busiest highway in the United States, the Long Island Expressway, and very near the Van Wyck Expressway, Clearview Expressway, Cross Island Parkway, and Grand Central Parkway, the AAVC provides its services like no other facility in the world. Already having operated two Low Cost Vet Mobile full service mobile veterinary hospital vehicles in all five boroughs for the past eleven years, a building facility was needed due to the incredible demand upon the Vet Mobiles, which has quadrupled in our eleven years

Companion Animal Network ("CAN"), one of the charitable organizations behind the AAVC and the Low Cost Vet Mobile, was organized in 1980, with the unimaginable goal of forcing the end of 100 years of the virtually automatic same day killing of New York City's homeless pets. It required the termination of a $5 million animal control contract issued by the City of New York. CAN began with filing law suits and authoring state legislation. Both goals were accomplished in just three years and on November 12, 1992 CAN was credited in New York City Council Resolution 985 for educating its members. Next, CAN set its sights on starting the nation's first animal relinquishment prevention program to New York City's animal control shelter. That goal was accomplished within five years when NYC Health Commissioner Thomas Friedan met with CAN and authorized the commencement of the "Safety Net Program," providing a 24 hr hotline, advice, referrals, support, and low cost veterinary services. For this first ever accomplishment in the field of animal control CAN was awarded the Animal Guardian Award two years in a row by the California based national organization In Defense of Animals. After several years of operating the Safety Net surrender prevention program for New York City's animal control agency CAN founded the world's first full service mobile low cost veterinary hospital. Quickly becoming one of the tristate's busiest veterinary practices, within a few years a building was purchased which became the Animal Adoption Veterinary Center. Within four years of the purchase of the building the Animal Adoption Veterinary Center will be opening. In addition to its accomplishments in New York City, CAN has accomplished major successes in other states as well. In Louisiana, CAN took legal action against what was probably the worst animal control agency in that state, operated by the city of Lafayette. After a three year law suit and numerous times being the lead story in Lafayette's television and print media, the city of Lafayette ended automatic gas chamber killing, switched to humane euthanasia by injection, began welcoming volunteers at animal control, and began an all out effort to save animals through adoption and a surrender prevention program. Within one year of our major success the entire state of Louisiana closed all the gas chambers, literally hundreds of them. In recognition of CAN's accomplishments in Louisiana CAN was awarded the Pioneer Spirit Award by the Humane Society of Louisiana at the New Orleans City Council. The next year, CAN took on the state of North Carolina, to also force it to end the killling of pets with gas chambers, the predominant way of euthanasia in the entire state. Again authoring state legislation, the pressure that CAN brought on the North Carolina State Legislature resulted in the entire state switching to humane injection euthanasia

Mission — The Animal Adoption Veterinary Center is the ONLY dog and cat adoption facility in Queens, New York City. Its purpose is to pioneer a higher quality adoption service than has ever existed anywhere else by providing: ● 24 hr LIVE INET MONITORING of resident animals available for adoption ● ONE YEAR OF FREE VETERINARY CARE for adopted animals ● UNLIMITED trial period ● FREE MICROCHIPS including lifetime registration for our adopted animals ● FREE LIFETIME ANNUAL EXAMS for our adopted animals ● LIFETIME RETURN POLICY for our adopted animals