Livin’ in Zoo York

Illegal city pets, by the numbers

It’s a jungle out there. New Yorkers love their dogs and cats, but also their monkeys and ferrets.

The 311 hotline has logged 369 calls since January 2017 about “illegal animals” kept as pets.

Queens had the most pet peeves, with 106, followed by 95 in Brooklyn, 72 in The Bronx, 56 in Manhattan, 37 on Staten Island and three cases that were unspecified.

The city health code prohibits the ownership of a menagerie’s worth of animals from bats to elephants to zebras.

But that hasn’t stopped urban Dr. Dolittles from taking in exotic pets — and their neighbors from alerting the authorities.

The city received 52 calls about unspecified farm animals and one about a monkey on Staten Island.

The address given for the pet primate was an office building on Richmond Avenue.

Ferrets are still forbidden in the city, despite a 2015 push to lift a 16-year ban, but that hasn’t stopped fans of the furry mammals from owning them.

The city logged 14 ferret complaints in the last year and a half.

City dwellers were more bothered by iguanas and snakes, which resulted in 36 calls to 311.

But New Yorkers’ greatest wrath was reserved for roosters, with 190 calls, including seven in Manhattan.

In the case of Whitestone poultry fans Maureen and Frank Regan, those 311 crowing complaint calls turned out to be fatal — for their flock.

After cops came to their door earlier this year — and the city sent them a letter warning of a $2,000 fine — the couple moved their dozen roosters and hens from their backyard coop to one at their upstate property.

Sadly, “a month later they all got eaten,” Maureen, a fashion exec and urban gardening pro, la- mented to The Post.

Some predator had managed to tear through the mesh and kill every bird, she said.

“It’s a shame,” said Maureen, who also keeps beehives, and said that many of her neighbors told her they enjoyed hearing the occasional rooster crowing away the time.

“We got them for the eggs because we want to have a sustainable lifestyle . . . I’m just disappointed that people have become so desensitized to life — and [her menagerie of animals] is life.”

Another of the clucker complaints was at the East 67th Street home of former hedgefund manager Philip Falcone and his wife, Lisa, who were known to keep a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig named Wilbur.

In most cases, the city Department of Health sent notices to the property owner or landlord telling them to correct the situation.

Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts