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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🐾 🚨 **25 Dobermans Rescued in Cruelty Case – Rescue & Donation Help Needed** 🚨 🐾
Sullivan County Animal Control and Bluff City Police Department have worked together this week to intervene in a heartbreaking cruelty case involving **25 Dobermans**. These dogs were found living in extremely poor conditions and are now safe in our care — but their journey to healing is just beginning.
Each of these dogs are suffering from **serious medical neglect** — malnourishment, untreated wounds, and overall poor health. This is an **active investigation**, so details are limited, but we can assure you: these animals have endured far too much, and they need all the support we can give.
We are urgently seeking assistance from **Doberman-specific rescues** who can step in and help with placement and specialized care. If you are part of, or connected to, a reputable breed-specific rescue, **please reach out to us directly.**
💔 **How You Can Help:**
Caring for 25 medically needy dogs comes with significant costs. If you’re not a rescue but still want to make a difference, **please consider donating** to help with vet care, food, shelter, and recovery supplies.
👉 You can call, come by, mail a check or hit the donate button below.
380 Massengil Road, Blountville TN
423-279-2741, option 2
These dogs didn’t choose this life — but thanks to teamwork, they have a second chance. Help us give them the future they deserve.
Remember when you purchase a puppy, you need to see their current environment and ask to meet the parents. Many puppies sold at “puppy boutiques”, the flea market etc…. This is what their parents look like. The only reason people keep backyard breeding, is because people keep buying. Be diligent, and protect your puppies’ parents.
Thank you to **Bluff City Police Department** for their dedication and partnership in this case. 💙
📢 **Please share** to help us reach more rescues and raise support.
#DobermanRescue #AnimalCrueltyCase #RescueDogs #DonateToSaveLives #SullivanCountyAnimalControl #BluffCityPD #SecondChances
41 CommentsComment on Facebook
How can I donate, or help? Would love to help in any way possible.
This breaks my heart. Are these babies going up for adoption after they heal??
Every county in our area has a cruelty case in the last month LAWS NEED TO CHANGE FOR THESE SWEET ANIMALS PLEASE !!!!!
Whiskers Wednesday 😺
Cats are $15 & Kittens $25 with approved application 💚
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Courtesy post for Bristol city tn AC. Picked up on Georgia Ave 7/16/25
Please call 423-989-5600 to reclaim or for info
8 CommentsComment on Facebook
He's coming home got out chasing squirrels
That's my baby Kash
Kash is home sleeping it off thanks everyone
Vaccine clinic is happening tomorrow, 7/17 for July. It is hot so come prepared for you and your pets. 💦
Always check our Facebook page for updates. Thanks and see you soon!
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You all work so hard out there in the heat bringing affordable pet care to our area. The vet is amazing and the staff are superb. Everyone is cheerful and sweating and working their tails off!!! THANK YOU The Animal Shelter of Sullivan County
I wish these lasted later in the day, due to people's work schedules
Thank you all so very much sorry our dogs were so vicious LOL they have to protect the car like their life depends on it.
🐾 Meet Possums: Our Cone-Wearing Queen! 👑
Possums isn’t just a cat — she’s a lifestyle.
Currently serving looks and sass in her Thai cone, this 3-year-old fashionista is stealing hearts and demanding snacks. 💅🍗
She’s spayed, fully vaccinated, and has been very vocal about her need for a throne of her own. While she’s currently rocking the cone due to some allergies (and chronic shelter stress), we’re confident once she’s in a calm, loving home, her cone-wearing days may be officially over. 🥹💖
Possums will need:
✔ Occasional steroid shots
✔ A balanced diet
✔ A human who appreciates dramatic flair and fabulous feline energy
She’s been through a lot, but her attitude? Unbreakable. Her side-eye? Oscar-worthy. Her snuggles? Top tier.
Come meet Possums and give her the chill, comfy home she deserves. She’s ready to trade the shelter life for couch life — and maybe toss that cone in the trash on the way out. 🛋🗑
📍 Available now at The Animal Shelter of Sullivan County
#AdoptPossums #ConeNoMore #DivaInRecovery #FierceAndFluffy #ShelterGlowUp
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Not at all. ❤️
Sweet girl deserves the world and a second chance at life where she’s given time and extra love while she’s adapting to her new home. I bet apoquel would help her skin it’s a wonderful allergy medicine and with her petite size she’d only need a half a pill daily. And the pills are cheap at the vet’s office and you can order from chewy but I’ve seen lots of kitties and dogs for that matter have horrible stress related skin issues when they’re in the shelter and once they’re out and GIVEN TIME to relax and feel safe at home 99.9% of the time their skin and coat goes back to normal 🙌 shared hoping she will find her perfect home 🥰🖤🫶🤞🤞🤞
She needs someone to give her a chance. Come meet her 💚
Come join our kitty volunteer team 😸 See you tomorrow at 10 am.
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Shelter will be opening later today due to a mandatory staff training! We will open at 2pm! 7/15/25
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Do you know me? I was found running with a yorkie on Lake Vista circle in piney flats (my yorkie friend took off so it’s just me).
Please call the shelter 423-279-2741 option 2 with proof of ownership
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That’s actually a Parti Yorkie
I am so glad you found Misty. I’ve been worried sick about her. She escaped out of my fenced in yard yesterday and I like I said had just been worried sick. I’m so glad that I called you all last night and again this morning and y’all have done a great job in contacting me today to let me know that she’s there. I will be by as soon as I possibly can to pick her up. Thank you for all you. Do God bless you
Isn’t this a Yorkie too? I have a friend (does not live here) who has one this color!
Courtesy posting for Bristol city Tennessee animal control. White Dog found on Robin road. Black dog found on Fairfield drive
Please call their nonemergency dispatch number at 423-989-5600
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Shared with prayers 💜 🙏🏻 ❤️
Courtesy posting for Bristol city Tennessee animal control found on volunteer parkway
Please call their nonemergency dispatch number at 423-989-5600
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Shared
Shared.
Courtesy posting for Bristol city Tennessee animal control.
found on old Jonesboro Road 7/14/25
Please call their nonemergency dispatch number at 423-989-5600
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Shared.
We are halfway through July. Come help us by adopting a new family member 💚
See you soon!!
Mon-Wed Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
380 Masengill Rd Blountville
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I was wondering if you all still had sweet Zoro (Buddy) available for adoption! My kids and I would love to come meet this handsome boy!
Sunday Shelter Successes 💚
Here's a snapshot of some of our adoptions this week. Congratulations families and happy life!! 😊
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That’s great news!
Another great namaste day @nicewonderfarm!
The dogs love it here 🐶
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I wish Facebook would notify me a day ahead. Missed this twice!
Come up to the Tasting room so I can see all the pups!!!
This poor thing was found on weaver pike last night (7/11/25)
Please have proof of ownership ready and call 423-279-2741 option 2
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We can’t see the post
I am trying to get in contact with someone me and my husband are homeless living in a car with four kittens and a female cat that is pregnant and we have nowhere to take them we need to find a shelter that will
Found on Orebank rd Kingsport tn 7/8/25, brought into shelter 7/11/25
Please have proof of ownership ready and call 423-279-2741 option 2
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Cute baby ❤️
Very sweet girl
What a cutie!
So many kitties and cats waiting for their furever homes.
Adult cats are $15 & Kittens are $25 with approved application 💚
Fri-Sat 1230-530 PM
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Natalie Barnes
Reclaimed by owner
Found running loose on bluff city highway. 7/9/25
Please have proof of ownership ready and call 423-279-2741 option 2
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looks like your pups Rylee Corvin Charity Corvin
I clicked on this to tag Chad Carrier but you guys already got it covered. I hope you have them back now
Those are my dogs two female Dobermans
Meet these 3 ladies at Petsmart-Kingsport 💚 $25 adoption fee with approved application
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Titus 💚 He is cat friendly, also! We have foster to adopt. Come meet him.
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I will be at the shelter the second they open today and I hope he still there and spend some time with him and see how he feels with me and see how I do with him I've had a couple of strokes so I I'm looking for a dog that will not overpower me completely but there's something about him that warms my heart and thank you for doing what you do to share the animals so they can find their forever homes
Do you know about how big he'll get and how strong is he he is absolutely beautiful and I haven't seen him when I visited the shelter
More kitties available for adoption.
$25 with approved application 💚
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Does anyone know where to get help with cat food
Do you have the link for the application that I can fill out? The animal The Animal Shelter of Sullivan Countyter
🐾 🚨 **25 Dobermans Rescued in Cruelty Case – Rescue & Donation Help Needed** 🚨 🐾
Sullivan County Animal Control and Bluff City Police Department have worked together this week to intervene in a heartbreaking cruelty case involving **25 Dobermans**. These dogs were found living in extremely poor conditions and are now safe in our care — but their journey to healing is just beginning.
Each of these dogs are suffering from **serious medical neglect** — malnourishment, untreated wounds, and overall poor health. This is an **active investigation**, so details are limited, but we can assure you: these animals have endured far too much, and they need all the support we can give.
We are urgently seeking assistance from **Doberman-specific rescues** who can step in and help with placement and specialized care. If you are part of, or connected to, a reputable breed-specific rescue, **please reach out to us directly.**
💔 **How You Can Help:**
Caring for 25 medically needy dogs comes with significant costs. If you’re not a rescue but still want to make a difference, **please consider donating** to help with vet care, food, shelter, and recovery supplies.
👉 You can call, come by, mail a check or hit the donate button below.
380 Massengil Road, Blountville TN
423-279-2741, option 2
These dogs didn’t choose this life — but thanks to teamwork, they have a second chance. Help us give them the future they deserve.
Remember when you purchase a puppy, you need to see their current environment and ask to meet the parents. Many puppies sold at “puppy boutiques”, the flea market etc…. This is what their parents look like. The only reason people keep backyard breeding, is because people keep buying. Be diligent, and protect your puppies’ parents.
Thank you to **Bluff City Police Department** for their dedication and partnership in this case. 💙
📢 **Please share** to help us reach more rescues and raise support.
#DobermanRescue #AnimalCrueltyCase #RescueDogs #DonateToSaveLives #SullivanCountyAnimalControl #BluffCityPD #SecondChances
41 CommentsComment on Facebook
How can I donate, or help? Would love to help in any way possible.
This breaks my heart. Are these babies going up for adoption after they heal??
Every county in our area has a cruelty case in the last month LAWS NEED TO CHANGE FOR THESE SWEET ANIMALS PLEASE !!!!!
Whiskers Wednesday 😺
Cats are $15 & Kittens $25 with approved application 💚
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Courtesy post for Bristol city tn AC. Picked up on Georgia Ave 7/16/25
Please call 423-989-5600 to reclaim or for info
8 CommentsComment on Facebook
He's coming home got out chasing squirrels
That's my baby Kash
Kash is home sleeping it off thanks everyone
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