“Make it a Grand Week”- Olivia Lobertini, The Grand on Central

For calendar year 2025, FCCA provided care to more than seven-thousand animals

A NOTE FROM THE GRAND ON CENTRAL: “There is so much good going on in our community, and I want to share all this good with you every Monday here on WLAF in hopes that you will start your week in a grand way making each week a Grand Week,” said Olivia Lobertini, owner of The Grand on Central.

JACKSBORO, TN (SPECIAL TO WLAF)-Friends of Campbell County Animals (FCCA) had another successful year in serving the animals and community. The FCCA released Animal Shelter’s 2025 Community Impact report.

For calendar year 2025, FCCA provided care to 7,520 animals. This included intaking 1,709 dogs and cats, providing vaccinations to 3,129 animals, and providing spay/neuter procedures on 2,523 animals.

FCCA is proud to be providing numerous services that benefit Campbell County and its animals. FCCA started as a spay/neuter clinic in April 2020 and offers low-cost spay/neuter programs to Campbell County residents. This program is critical to addressing the overpopulation of animals in Campbell County and without an affordable option for residents, most of these animals would not have been spayed/neutered. Since inception of the spay/neuter program, FCCA has provided spay/neuter services to 9,182 animals. Had these services not been performed, Campbell County would have experienced over 45,000 additional kittens and puppies. FCCA is also proud of the success of its low-cost vaccination program. Since the inception of the vaccination program, FCCA has enhanced the health of 8,442 animals in Campbell County – thus reducing the risk of illness in the dogs and cats in the county and ultimately improving the safety of animals for the benefit of the community.

FCCA continues its goal in alignment with the desires of the Campbell County Commission to be designated a “no-kill” shelter which simply means that they have a goal of a live-release of at least 90 percent as they are recognized as an open intake county animal shelter that they will have to euthanize some animals due to injury, illness, behavior or safety issues. In the fiscal year 2025, the live-release rate was 90.2 percent. For the fiscal-year 2025 they reunited 69 pets with their families, had 537 adoptions, and found homes for 864 animals that were transferred to animal rescue organizations, including through their partnership with the East Tennessee GoNorth program.

The GoNorth program provides animal rescue transport services for numerous East Tennessee animal shelters, including the Campbell County, TN animal shelter. FCCA knows that dogs and cats are part of the family and provided low-cost euthanasia services for 91 pet owners this fiscal year when they had to make the difficult decision to let their family pet cross the rainbow bridge for health reasons. FCCA has also recently forged a new relationship with a cremation provider and is now offering low-cost pet cremation services to the public.

Since FCCA took over the county animal shelter in 2015, it has cared for more than 27,100 animals at the shelter. After ensuring the health and well-being of the animals, they reunited 931 animals with their families, had 3,286 dog and cat adoptions in the community and sent 17,140 to outside rescue organizations. Over the 10 plus years , FCCA has been operating the animal shelter, and it has saved more than 85 percent of the animals that came into the shelter, including achieving a live release rate of 90.2 percent for the calendar year 2025.

FCCA is also proud to help families in need of temporary assistance with their family pets. In the calendar year 2025, it provided 59,985 pounds of dog food to 928 families in Campbell County. This has allowed the families to keep their pets at home versus having to surrender them and ensured that their pets were able to be fed. This service is provided as part of FCCA’s Critter Cupboard program, and this program is supported by pet food donations.

FCCA has launched several programs including Pets For Patriots to support the adoption the adoption of the most overlooked shelter animals by veterans in Campbell County, the Homeward Bound Virtual Pet Fostering Program to provide volunteers to interact with dogs remotely and in-person with the assistance of the FCCA staff at the shelter. It launched a partnership with Bo’s at Indian River Marina and FCCA received a grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to enhance adoptions, fostering, training, veterinary care and spay/neuter services. FCCA also hosted a Cat Program Town Hall session to share information and answer questions about its newly launched Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return Program designed to provide a humane approach to cat overpopulation.

If anyone is interested in adopting one of the dogs or cats in the shelter, please contact the shelter. You can view all of the adoptable pets on Petfinder and Adoption applications can be completed online via their website fccanimals.org.

FCCA is a nonprofit organization that manages and oversees the daily operations of the Campbell County Animal Shelter. It’s purpose is to preserve animal life through humane sheltering and finding homes for the thousands of homeless animals that enter the shelter every year. Since 2015, they have cared for more than 27,000 animals, spay/neutered over 9,100 animals, and provided low-cost vaccines to more than 8,400 animals in Campbell County. These accomplishments were achieved through the extensive new programs launched by FCCA.

For more information about Friends of Campbell County Animals, visit its website.

A NOTE FROM THE GRAND ON CENTRAL: “There is so much good going on in our community, and I want to share all this good with you every Monday here on WLAF in hopes that you will start your week in a grand way making each week a Grand Week,” said Olivia Lobertini, owner of The Grand on Central.

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