Many pooches are still lying in their own filth and crammed into too-small cages at a $75 million city-funded animal shelter in Queens roughly a year after The Post exposed horrific conditions there.
Individual kennels are supposed to be cleaned each time a dog is walked, according to a worker at the Animal Care Centers of New York site in Ridgewood. But none were cleaned during a recent visit from The Post after several dogs were walked for about 5 minutes.
The dogs were simply returned to their reeking cages filled with piles of excrement.
An ACC rep told The Post in August that the agency had not yet finished hiring all the staff required to meet its needs. A source familiar with the matter said the shelter is still short-staffed nearly a year later, with nearly a dozen open positions ranging from vet techs to animal transporters to custodians…