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!
View all our Adoptables
View all of the wonderful animal companions waiting for adoption at our shelter on Adopt A Pet!
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We are half way through Giving Tuesday! Please help us help them ❤️Tomorrow is the day. 💚
Giving Tuesday is almost here, and our animals are counting on the compassion of our amazing community.
Let’s make this our biggest year yet!
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#GivingTuesdaycampaign #ASOSC #TogetherWeCan
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Tomorrow is the day. 💚
Giving Tuesday is almost here, and our animals are counting on the compassion of our amazing community.
Let’s make this our biggest year yet!
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#GivingTuesdaycampaign #ASOSC #TogetherWeCan
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Come give a shelter pet a forever home this Paw-liday season 🐾🎄
Kitties are $30 & dogs $60 for December with an approved application ✔️♥️
Mon-Wed & Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
380 Masengill Rd Blountville
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I submitted an application last Tuesday for one of the Petsmart kitties and haven’t heard back? Just wondering if that’s still being checked
🐾 BIG WEEK at the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County! 🐾
We are thrilled to share that Dogs Playing for Life will be at our shelter this Wednesday through Friday bringing their nationally recognized playgroup and enrichment training to our team! 🎉💙
📢 Please note: We will be CLOSED on Wednesday so that all staff can participate in this important hands-on training. Thank you for understanding as we invest in tools that will help our dogs thrive!
This incredible program teaches shelters how to safely run dog playgroups, reduce kennel stress, and bring out the very best in every pup. Our staff, volunteers, and dog walkers are getting hands-on experience that will help our dogs shine brighter than ever!
We’re also excited to welcome surrounding shelters who have been invited to join us, observe the training, and take these lifesaving skills back to their own organizations. Collaboration helps us all save more lives! 🐶🤝🐶
A HUGE thank you to Petco Love and the ASPCA for sponsoring this amazing opportunity. Your support helps bring better enrichment, better outcomes, and happier dogs to our community. ❤️🙌
Stay tuned — we’ll be sharing behind-the-scenes moments and updates throughout the week as the dogs jump into playgroups, make new friends, and soak up every minute of fun! ✨
#DogsPlayingForLife #ASOSC #PetcoLove #ASPCA #ShelterDogs #EnrichmentMatters #PlaygroupsSaveLives #playgroupssavelives
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Can’t wait to learn more about this program. Our dogs will be so HAPPY to be able to play with other dogs. It’s hard being in a shelter to begin with, they play alone and it’s going to be awesome for them to learn how to play and get along! Can’t wait for training!🤩🐶🐾
Ready to learn more!
Meow! Adopt 😸
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I see my little buff color kitty
Prayers for these cuties 🐾🙏🏻🐾
Courtesy posting for Bristol city tn animal control. Found on Hill street 11/30/25
Please call their number 423-989-5600
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Looks scared poor baby
🐾🙏🏻🙏🏻🐾
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Sunday Shelter Successes 🐾
With the holiday, we are thankful for each little turkey that found their forever home 🦃
Congratulations to all the new families and happy life 🏡
20 Adoptions:
🐕 2 dogs
😸18 kitties
🐶12 Accepted to Rescue
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So happy for these babies 🐾🙏🏻🐾
Love seeing ALL the successes each week! Thanks to our awesome volunteer, Blakelee Peters Taylor!😍😊
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Come out to Tractor Supply in Bristol TN and check out these sweet babies! We are here from 10am to 2pm!
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Are y’all gonna be at the shelter
Sweet sweet babies!
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Reclaimed by owner!
Courtesy posting for Bristol city tn animal control. Picked up on weaver pike/volunteer parkway 11/29/25
Please call 423-989-5600
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We got them thank you! They got out this morning!
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We hope to see you tomorrow at Tractor Supply Co. at the new Bristol location on Volunteer Parkway for our Adoption Event.
Come adopt and purchase some shelter merch. These sweet puppers are waiting for you!!!
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Come out and adopt a sweet baby
Frank is a great dog.
Hey Guys, I sent you an email. Can you check?
🖤🐾 Black Friday Deals = Happier Shelter Pups! 🐾🖤
While you’re doing your Black Friday (or Cyber Monday!) shopping, don’t forget our shelter babies! Many stores have amazing sales right now on enrichment toys, beds, and blankets — all things that help keep our pups comfy, calm, and mentally engaged while they wait for their forever families.
🛍️ Items we’re hoping to stock up on:
🧸 Enrichment toys (Kongs, puzzle feeders, lick mats)
🛏️ Soft beds for tired paws
🪵 Chew toys & sensory toys
🛋️ Blankets and cozy throws
🍯 Fillers for toys: peanut butter, Cheese Whiz, marshmallows & pumpkin
🧠 Enrichment keeps their minds busy and stress levels down.
💤 Soft beds & blankets give them comfort, warmth, and a sense of security.
🎁 And now is the perfect time to grab them at great prices!
If you spot a deal, snag one for our shelter pups — it’ll make a world of difference in their little lives. 🐶❤️
Drop off at the shelter, ship to us!
Happy Shopping & Thank You for Thinking of Our Doggies! 🖤🐾
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Do you guys have a specific Amazon wishlist for the shelter we can access? No biggie if not just thought I'd check first
If toys are brought are we able to give them to the dogs or no?
Do you ever need things like laundry detergent, dish soap, bleach, paper towels, etc?
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🧡🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County! 🐾
This Thanksgiving, we are especially grateful for our incredible community — our dedicated volunteers, kind-hearted fosters, generous donors, and every adopter who opened their home and heart to an animal in need. Because of you, so many pets are safe, loved, and one step closer to their forever homes.
To allow our staff and volunteers time to enjoy the holiday with their families, we will be CLOSED on Thursday and Friday. We will reopen on Saturday, ready to welcome you back and continue our mission of care, compassion, and second chances.
From all of us — two-legged and four-legged — we wish you a warm, safe, and joyful Thanksgiving! 🍂🧡🐶🐱
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and the critters!
Happy Thanksgiving and our community is Thankful for all you do 🥰
Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all you do.
Thanksgiving meal for our babies was a success!! Thank you to the volunteers that cooked, fed and spoiled each one! 🦃
We hope you enjoy the pictures and if you see your new best friend, come adopt!!
Happy Turkey Day from our favorite turkeys 😸🐶
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Wow ! I love ❤️ it!!!
This is fantastic!
Happy Thanksgiving! Prayers that all these babies find their furever home 🙏🏻🐾🙏🏻♥️
Update-Owner found, dog back home!
Courtesy posting for Bristol city Tennessee animal control. Found on Weaver Pike 11/26 . Please call their nonemergency number at 423-989-5600 with information.
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Courtesy posting for Bristol City animal control. Found at Thunder mountain campground 11/26. Please call 423-989-5600 with information
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Come give one of our dogs a "Second chance" at forever. $60 with approved application for November.
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🐾Meet Larry 🌟
Larry is our longest resident, and we dont know why 😢 He is a shelter favorite ❤️
Larry is about 3 years old, treat motivated, and a ball of fun!! He is dreaming of his own yard. He enjoys water and tug of war. 💦
He has been working on his leash manners and loves other dogs. Call to schedule a meet/greet. 🐕🐶
(will post him playing in the comments)
We would LOVE to get him out of the shelter. We do have "foster to adopt" to make sure it's a good family fit.
Larry's fee is sponsored. Come give him a chance 🧡
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Meow Monday! Come give a kitty a "Second Chance " at forever. $30 with approved application for November.
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I see the mellow yellow love bug....so cute
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Sunday Shelter Successes 🐾
We had a great week of adoptions. Congratulations to every cat or dog that gets a second chance at forever!
We have "foster to adopt" and some of our dogs won their families over while making sure it was a match made in heaven. One of our longest dog residents was also adopted 🏡
Congratulations and happy life!! 🧡
🐕 5 Dogs
🐈15 Kitties
🐶 5 to Rescue
Thank you to our staff, volunteers & community. It takes a village.
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Hurray!
Great news!
That’s wonderful🙏🏻🐾🙏🏻
11/21/25 Picked up on Edens view road Kingsport. Please call 423-279-2741 option 2 with any information.
Please be advised, due to the extreme high volume of intake this week, we are on emergency services only.
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Shared in hopes that the owner is found soon 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Meow! Come adopt 😸♥️
Mon-Wed Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
380 Masengill Rd Blountville
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Do you guys know who I need to talk to about reporting an individual who dumped my cat? I have a pawboost up from him now, it’s been a complicated situation but, I was under the assumption dumping is illegal.
Would a kitten do well with a 9 yr old female cat?
looking for this cat missing from 126 steels creek area probably about a month now was hoping he'd just pop back in like he's dad but haven't seen him comes to rot rot his name is rockem
This dog has been seen running loose several times on and near Cave Hill Rd blountville. Please call 423-279-2741 option 2 with information
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We are half way through Giving Tuesday! Please help us help them ❤️Tomorrow is the day. 💚
Giving Tuesday is almost here, and our animals are counting on the compassion of our amazing community.
Let’s make this our biggest year yet!
animalshelter-sullivancounty.networkforgood.com/projects/204694-support-the-animal-shelter-of-sul...
#GivingTuesdaycampaign #ASOSC #TogetherWeCan
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Tomorrow is the day. 💚
Giving Tuesday is almost here, and our animals are counting on the compassion of our amazing community.
Let’s make this our biggest year yet!
animalshelter-sullivancounty.networkforgood.com/projects/204694-support-the-animal-shelter-of-sul...
#GivingTuesdaycampaign #ASOSC #TogetherWeCan
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Come give a shelter pet a forever home this Paw-liday season 🐾🎄
Kitties are $30 & dogs $60 for December with an approved application ✔️♥️
Mon-Wed & Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
380 Masengill Rd Blountville
1 CommentComment on Facebook
I submitted an application last Tuesday for one of the Petsmart kitties and haven’t heard back? Just wondering if that’s still being checked
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