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.
Featured Stars for Adoption
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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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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Wow! That’s great.
Totally awesome
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!!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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Praying everyone gets well soon. 😪🙏
Get better ❤️🩹
🙏🙏🙏 prayers sent !
Come adopt a kitty and give it a forever home for the Paw-lidays 🐾
$30 with approved application 😸
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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
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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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Wow! Thank you for our community you have really poured out your hearts for this sweet girl 🥰
We love all our babies here at the animal shelter 🥰 some just need a little extra love! 💗
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
Come adopt and give a forever home for the Paw-lidays 🐾 $60 with approved application 🏡
Mon-Wed Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
380 Masengill Rd Blountville
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Prayers for all these babies 🐾🙏🏻🙏🏻
Do u have any small breed dog that stays small a puppy or young dog
‘Tis the Night Before Christmas at the Animal Shelter 'Tis the night before Christmas and all through the town, Every shelter is full of the lost but not found. Our numbers are hung on our kennels so bare, As we hope every minute that someone will care. We hope they'll come to adopt us and give us the call, "Come here, Max and Sparkie ~ come fetch your new ball!" But now we just sit here and think of the days..... We were treated so fondly when we had “puppy ways.” Then we were little, but we aged and we grew – Now we're no longer young, and we're no longer new. So out the back door we were thrown like the trash, They reacted so quickly–why were they so rash? We "jump on the children," "don't come when they call,” We "bark when they leave us," and we "climb over the wall." We should have been neutered, we should have been spayed, And now we suffer the consequence of the errors they made. If only they'd trained us, if only we knew... We'd have done what they asked us and worshiped them, too. We were left alone in the backyard, or worse, left to roam... Now we're tired and we’re lonely and out of a home. They dropped us off here and they kissed us goodbye, Saying "Don’t worry, I’m sure someone else will give you a try." So now here we are, all confused and alone, In a shelter with many others who long for a home. The kind workers come through with a meal and a pat, But with so many to care for, they can't stop to chat. They move on to the next kennel, giving each of us cheer, We know that they wonder how long we'll be here. We lay down to sleep and sweet dreams fill our heads.... Of a home filled with love and our own cozy beds. Then we wake to see sad eyes, brimming with tears– Our friends filled with emptiness, worry and fear. If you can't adopt us and there's no room at your inn, Could you help with the bills and fill our food bin? We count on your kindness each day of the year– Can you give a little hope to everyone here? Please make a donation to pay for the heat, And help get us something special to eat. The shelter that cares for us wants us to live; And more of us will, if more people will give.
🎄 Just in time for Christmas! 🎄
Our new shelter merch has arrived and it makes the purr-fect gift! 🐶🐱
The Green is a Hoodie, the two in the middle are long sleeve, and the blue is a zip up!
✨ Long sleeve shirts – $25
✨ Hoodies & zip-ups – $35
✨ Beanies – $15
Every purchase helps support the animals in our care. Grab yours before Christmas and wear your support proudly! ❤️
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I live in Blountville, where can we pick up
Can we buy online ?
Brandi Perkey^
🎄✨ Our Christmas party was such a special reminder of how lucky we are. We are beyond thankful for our incredible staff and volunteers who give their time, energy, and hearts to our shelter animals every single day. What you do does not go unnoticed, and we truly couldn’t do this work without you.
We would also like to extend a huge thank you to Squabble State for generously allowing us to use their beautiful space to celebrate together. From all of us at the shelter—thank you for being the heart of our mission. 🐾❤️
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Merry Christmas to our wonderful employees and volunteers at the The Animal Shelter of Sullivan County ! You are all the nicest and most hard working people who clearly love these animals in need . Thank you for all of YOU 💯❤️
Your staff is excellent
Looks great! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Sunday Shelter Successes 🐾
We had a great week of animals finding their forever homes. Congratulations and happy life 🏡
🐶4 dogs
😸17 cats
🐕 5 Accepted to Rescue
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Prayers 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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See you tomorrow at the Pup-Cracker 🩰🐶 Come meet our adoptable dogs, buy shelter merch, or drop off a donation.
One of our very own shelter dogs that was adopted is the star of the show. 🐾
See you there!!
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We want to thank the Friendship Ford Bristol Service Department for these wonderful donations! ❤️ We appreciate your support!
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Bless them.
Thank you Friendship Ford!🤩🙌🏼
So many sweet dogs waiting for a forever home. $60 with approved application 🐾
Mon-Wed Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
380 Masengill Rd Blountville
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Home for the Paw-lidays. $30 with approved application 😸
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Prayers that they all find loving homes 🐾🙏🏻🐾
Courtesy posting for Bristol city Tennessee animal control this dog was found on Stafford Street and is currently still with the Finder. Please call 423-989-5600 if this is your dog
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Sunday Shelter Successes 🐾
Congratulations to all of the families, happy life to all ♥️ 🏡
Stats:
😸 18 Kitties Adopted
🐕 1 Dog Adopted
🐶 7 Reclaimed
😸🐕 17 Dogs and 2 Cats to Rescue
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Everyday is Caturday!! Adopt 😸
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Adorable ❤️
Omg dreamsicle
Love all of them
Do you know me? I was found on Glory Rd in Blountville. Please call the shelter at 423-279-2741 option 2 with any information.
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🐾 What an Incredible Week at the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County! 🐾
We just wrapped up an amazing three days with Dogs Playing for Life, and the positive changes are already happening! Our instructors, Maxx and Caley, gave our team the confidence and skills to safely run dog playgroups — and our pups absolutely loved it. Seeing the dogs calm, relaxed, and happy afterward was truly heartwarming. 🥰
Now we’re excited to bring this program into our daily routine, and we want YOU to be part of it!
If you’re interested in:
🐶 Walking dogs
🐾 Helping with playgroups
💛 Spending time with our shelter pets
— this is the perfect time to get involved. No experience needed — we’ll teach you!
➡️ Ready to volunteer?
Find the link below or reach out!
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Together, we’re creating happier days and brighter futures for the animals of Sullivan County. 💙🐾
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The Animal Shelter of Sullivan County Thank you so much for inviting The Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter to come and learn! What a great group you have there! ❤️🐾
Courtesy posting for Bristol city, Tennessee animal control. Picked up on the 3000 block of hwy 11e. Please call 423-989-5600
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Awww that baby says "we've done it this time"
Now what did y’all do to make them look like that cuz they definitely didn’t naturally just look like this! 🙄
I thought they might be strays. I didn’t see where they had owners
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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Wow! That’s great.
Totally awesome
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!
4 CommentsComment on Facebook
Praying everyone gets well soon. 😪🙏
Get better ❤️🩹
🙏🙏🙏 prayers sent !
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