After a summer of overcrowding , New York City’s animal shelters have officially begun accepting non-emergency pet surrenders again.

Animal Care Centers of NYC, the city’s only open-admission shelter system, said Tuesday that it has resumed accepting pets surrendered by their owners by appointment.

In late July, the organization said it had suspended intake at its shelters due to “critical capacity issues.”

“This is not a decision we take lightly, but we cannot take any more owner surrenders,” it said on social media . “With over 1,000 pets in our care we are at a breaking point.”

Even while intake was officially suspended, however, the ACC did accept more than 1,500 pets who “had nowhere else to go,” its director of marketing and communications, Katy Hansen, noted in an email, i

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