Discover endless tail wags and heartwarming purrs at the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County in Blountville, Tennessee.
Adopting is more than just finding a pet; it’s about creating a lifetime bond. Join us in making a difference — for our furry friends and you. Add a special member to your family today by starting your adoption journey and experience the love that a shelter animal can offer.
Our Mission:
Increase awareness in Sullivan County about the humane treatment of animals through responsible sheltering, education, spay/neuter assistance and access to wellness.
Important Information:
The Animal Shelter of Sullivan County, Tennessee, conducts owner surrenders by appointment only. Please call 423-279-2741 to make an appointment. No walk-in surrenders will be permitted.
All animal control calls will be dispatched in a triage fashion, taking into consideration the urgent nature of the call. All strays must be brought in by animal control.
We need your donations!
100% of your tax deductible donation benefits our lifesaving rescue efforts for Sullivan County, Tennessee, animals in need.
Services
The Animal Shelter of Sullivan County has a number of services, including intake, spay/neuter and a vaccine clinic.
Intake
Intake services are available at the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County. Please click here to learn more about our intake process.
Foster
Foster families are essential members of the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County family. Take part of a rewarding program with us.
Programs
Learn about the programs offered at the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County here.
Adopt
Explore our furry friends at the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County. Complete and submit an adoption application here.
Volunteer
If you are searching for a rewarding experience and love animals, we invite you to volunteer with us. Learn more here.
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Ready to Adopt? It's simple.
Fill out the application online here or click the button to the side. Once submitted and approved, a team member will contact you to arrange an appointment for the adoption OR visit the shelter during regular business hours to view the animals and complete an adoption application onsite. Once approved, your adoption will be complete, and you can welcome a new member to your family!
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Courtesy posting for Bristol city AC. Picked up on Martin Luther King Blvd 01/02/26
Please call their non emergency number at 423-989-5600
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Does he have a hurt paw and is he a boy does he answer to chase
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Our first adoption event of the year!!
Come find your new best friend 🐾
See you tomorrow ❤️
The shelter will be open also, so come on by!! 🏡
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💔 Not a post we ever want to make 💔
Earlier today, Animal Control received a call about an injured dog and immediately responded. Upon arrival, we found this sweet pup suffering from what appears to be a gunshot wound to the face.
He was rushed straight to Indian Ridge Animal Hospital, where he is currently receiving emergency treatment. Right now, our focus is on stabilizing him and relieving his pain.
👉 Do you know this dog?
If you recognize him or have any information that may help us identify an owner, please contact us as soon as possible.
🐾 How you can help:
Emergency medical care is costly, and we are asking our community for support. Donations will go directly toward his veterinary care and recovery.
Every share helps. Every donation matters. And every ounce of kindness gives this pup a better chance.
Thank you to Animal Control for their quick response and to Indian Ridge Animal Hospital for acting swiftly to help save his life. Thank you to our community for always standing with us — especially on the hard days.
💙 Donation link: animalshelter-sullivancounty.networkforgood.com/projects/204694-support-the-animal-shelter-of-sul...
📞 If you have information: Animal Control: 423-279-2741 option 1
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This happened to Lobo a couple years ago yall found a blue eyed husky that was shot
I wonder if it was the same person that shot Neptune? Strange that 2 different aussies got shot within days of each other.
Some people deserve the treatment they give to animals.
Start the New year off with a RESCUE!
Come see us Saturday and find your new best friend 🎉
Dogs $60 & Kitties $30 with approved application 🐾 for January.
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Have a Meowy New Year
$30 with approved application 😺
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Praying for all these cuties 🙏🏻🐾🙏🏻
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Sunday Shelter Successes 🐾
We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, we know these babies sure did!
Congratulations on getting a Forever Home for the Paw-lidays 🐾
Happy life 🏡
🐈 8 kitties
🐕 2 dogs
🐶 2 Reclaimed & 6 to Rescue
❤️
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Courtesy posting for Bristol city Tennessee animal control picked up on Sherry Drive 12/26. Please call the nonemergency number at 423-989-5600.
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I think I saw a post where someone was looking for this dog. Let me see if I can find the post
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We want to wish our wonderful community a very Merry Christmas! 🎄❤️
Thank you for all of your support this year — we truly couldn’t do what we do without you.
A huge thank-you to our incredible staff and volunteers for their hard work, compassion, and dedication to our animals every single day. You are the heart of our shelter!
Now we’d love to see yours — show us your fur babies enjoying their Christmas festivities! 🐶🐱🎁
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Anakin is enjoying his first Christmas at home after being adopted from Sullivan County last month!!
Merry Christmas to all & I love fur babies!
Rosco is enjoying his first Christmas in our home! Thank you all for the amazing work you do to get the animals in your areas a furever home!
Enjoy time with your families and EAT! 🤪
Thanks volunteers and Happy Howlidays 🐾
Come adopt this Saturday ❤️
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This is great!!
So cute!! Come adopt this Saturday 🐾
Mr Larry is heading up the video! We all love ❤️ him!
🎅✨ Holiday Hours Update ✨🎅
The shelter will be closed December 24–26 for the Christmas holiday.
We’ll be back and ready to help on Saturday, December 27th!
Thank you for your continued support—we wish you and your families a Merry Christmas! 🎄🐾
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Thank you from our friends at Tennessee Department of environmental and conservation- Johnson City environmental field office!
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Are you open on Christmas Eve and if so what time?
Christmas dinner came early for some sweet kitties and cats, they'd love to have a home for the holidays.
Meowy Christmas from our paws to yours 🎄 😺
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Will Yall Be open Christmas Eve?
We will be by tomorrow 🖤 If you all are open!
Thanks to the most amazing CAT volunteers for putting this on!❤️💚
Sunday Shelter Successes 🐾
We had another great week of adoptions. So happy for our babies that found a forever home.
Meowy Christmas & Happy Howlidays
🐶 2 dogs
😺18 cats
🐕 2 Reclaimed & 10 to Rescue
🏡❤️
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Bless all who adopted.
Wonderful!
Come adopt your FOREVER best friend tomorrow, Saturday, Dec 20th.
All fees will be waived with approved application 🐾
Shelter in Blountville, tomorrow 1230-530 PM, and Petsmart locations ♥️
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Big thank you to the 4th grade class at Holston Valley! We appreciate your support!
Merry Christmas!
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Wonderful. 🐾
Wow! That’s great.
Totally awesome
!!Attention!! Due to staff sickness, we will be CLOSED today, December 19th, 2025. Please send well wishes to our team members that are ill, and we hope to see you tomorrow!
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Get better ❤️🩹
Praying everyone gets well soon. 😪🙏
🙏🙏🙏 prayers sent !
Come adopt a kitty and give it a forever home for the Paw-lidays 🐾
$30 with approved application 😸
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🙏🏻🐾🙏🏻
Adopted!!
Meet Mr. DRAC 💙🐈⬛️
Drac has a special place in all our hearts. He was rescued from a hoarding case. His fur was yellow when we found him 😢
Drac is about 8 years old. He is so lovable and would be the purrrrfect lap kitty. 😸 He was adopted and returned for being nervous in the home with other animals.
Drac has done great at Petsmart with other kitties and good with kiddo volunteers. He would need a more calm home but kitties and older kids would be fine, as long as they know boundries. 🙃💙
We want him to find his forever home after all he's been through. He is still so trusting and has so much love to give!!!! 😻
Let's find Drac a home for Christmas 🎄
Comment below if interested 🐾
He is currently at Petsmart-Kingsport.
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How is he with being picked up? Does he like to cuddle?
Drac is the very BEST boy!! He will give you lots of snuggles. ❤️
Praying for this little beauty 🙏🏻🐾
🎄 What do our shelter animals want for Christmas? 🎄
This year, their wish lists are filled with the simple things — warm beds, full bellies, enrichment toys, and lots of love.
Every donation helps make their Christmas a little brighter while they wait for their forever homes.
If you’re able, please consider giving a Christmas gift to one of our shelter animals.
🎁 Donation links are below
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1SYZL5I31LR3V/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex
www.chewy.com/g/animal-shelter-of-sullivan-county-inc_b75988837
🐾 From all of our fur babies — thank you for being part of their miracle
#ASOSC #TogetherWeCan #EnrichmentMatters #shelterdogs #adoptdontshop
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I pray all you sweet babies find a loving forever home.
I dropped some treats boxes last week , I hope they can enjoy it ! I will probably get some more this weekend to cooperate!! Merry Christmas! I wish they can find a lovely family for each one
Larry, our longest resident, was accepted to RESCUE! 💙 We'd love to find him the right foster until 1/9.
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UPDATE 12/19:: This sweet girl is back at the shelter with us 🥰 check out the comments for some pictures! She will be available for adoption on MONDAY! If you’re interested please go ahead ans submit an application and come meet her!
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UPDATE!
Thanks to your incredible support, our sweet girl is out of surgery and recovering today. We are so thankful to our amazing community for stepping up and donating to help save her life.
A special thank you to Washington County Animal Shelter Spay & Neuter Clinic for being such an important part of her care. This is a perfect example of how shelters working together can save countless lives. It truly takes a village, and we are so grateful to everyone who made this life-saving work possible. 🐾💙
PHOTO IN COMMENS!
Miss Nikki was graciously brought to us by Bristol Animal Control as a stray. She is beloved by everyone she meets, I mean just look at the way she looks at you! Her ideal moments include short exploration, pretty sits for treats, and laying her head in your lap while she gazes into your eyes mending your soul. Unfortunately due to our global spay/neuter conundrum, age caught up to her before the spay hook could and with that being said as it commonly happens in these elderly cases (don’t tell her I said that she’s feeling great for six 👀) a pyometra tried taking her from us too soon. This means her uterus began to fill with infection, which is very common in unaltered female dogs. She fell into the perfect hands here at the Sullivan county animal shelter, the moment the clinic staff met her they were on a mission to save her life. A swift text and lots of diagnostics later Dr Fitzgerald at the Washington County Spay neuter clinic agreed to step in and offer to help our beautiful girl. As all great things do, this costs money.. but don’t you agree she is more than worth it!
We could use all the help we can get to help this girlie get back to her spunky self, she has much to explore!
Not all who wander are lost here at the Sullivan County Animal shelter!
Any extra funds will go to our advance medical care fund for the next life saving cause!
CUTE VIDEOS IN THE COMMENTS!e pr
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We love all our babies here at the animal shelter 🥰 some just need a little extra love! 💗
Perfect example of why spaying and neuter is so important. Maybe be the same for dogs but in cats With each heat for a cat the ovarian cancer chances increase 3 times !
Owner found !
Courtesy posting for Bristol city tn animal control. Picked up at Food City on 394. Please call their non emergency number at 423-989-5600
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Expensive Designer Dog
Mountain Styles Pet Salon, LLC look like anyone you all groom?
They are runners
Courtesy posting for Bristol city AC. Picked up on Martin Luther King Blvd 01/02/26
Please call their non emergency number at 423-989-5600
2 CommentsComment on Facebook
Does he have a hurt paw and is he a boy does he answer to chase
Shared.
Our first adoption event of the year!!
Come find your new best friend 🐾
See you tomorrow ❤️
The shelter will be open also, so come on by!! 🏡
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
💔 Not a post we ever want to make 💔
Earlier today, Animal Control received a call about an injured dog and immediately responded. Upon arrival, we found this sweet pup suffering from what appears to be a gunshot wound to the face.
He was rushed straight to Indian Ridge Animal Hospital, where he is currently receiving emergency treatment. Right now, our focus is on stabilizing him and relieving his pain.
👉 Do you know this dog?
If you recognize him or have any information that may help us identify an owner, please contact us as soon as possible.
🐾 How you can help:
Emergency medical care is costly, and we are asking our community for support. Donations will go directly toward his veterinary care and recovery.
Every share helps. Every donation matters. And every ounce of kindness gives this pup a better chance.
Thank you to Animal Control for their quick response and to Indian Ridge Animal Hospital for acting swiftly to help save his life. Thank you to our community for always standing with us — especially on the hard days.
💙 Donation link: animalshelter-sullivancounty.networkforgood.com/projects/204694-support-the-animal-shelter-of-sul...
📞 If you have information: Animal Control: 423-279-2741 option 1
38 CommentsComment on Facebook
This happened to Lobo a couple years ago yall found a blue eyed husky that was shot
I wonder if it was the same person that shot Neptune? Strange that 2 different aussies got shot within days of each other.
Some people deserve the treatment they give to animals.
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