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Wlaf1450JACKSBORO, TN (SPECIAL TO WLAF)- Friends of Campbell County, TN Animals has released its Campbell County Animal Shelter Community Impact Report for Fiscal Year 2025-26.
Friends of Campbell County, TN Animals (FCCA) just completed its 11th year of operating the Campbell County, TN Animal Shelter and had another successful year in serving the animals and community. For its fiscal-year 2025-26, FCCA provided care to 7,300 animals. This included intaking 1,403 dogs and cats, providing a record-setting level of vaccinations to 3,044 animals, and providing spay/neuter procedures on 2,622 animals – a 26 percent increase over the prior fiscal year and another record-breaking level. FCCA is proud to be providing numerous services that benefit the Campbell County Community and animals. FCCA started is spay/neuter clinic in 2019 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 10,557 animals. Had these services not been performed, Campbell County would have experienced over 50,000 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 10,034 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 will have to euthanize some animals due to injury, illness, behavior or safety issues. In the fiscal year 2025-26, the live-release rate was 89 percent. For the fiscal-year 2025-26 they reunited 78 pets with their families, they had 539 adoptions in the community reflecting a nearly 26 percent increase versus the prior fiscal year and found homes for 559 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 97 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. Since FCCA took over the county animal shelter in 2015, they have cared for over 27,800 animals at the shelter. After ensuring the health and well-being of the animals, they reunited 970 animals with their families, had 3,478 dog and cat adoptions in the community and sent 17,383 to outside rescue organizations. Over the 11 years FCCA has been operating the animal shelter, they have saved over 85 percent of the animals that came into the shelter.
FCCA is also proud to help families in need of temporary assistance with their family pets. In the fiscal year 2025-26, we provided 44,315 pounds of dog food to 1,520 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.
In 2025-26, they launched several programs including (1) launching a community cat trap-neuter vaccinate-return program designed to provide a humane approach to cat overpopulation, reduce nuisance behaviors and keep cats out of the shelter, (2) expanded the Homeward Bound Virtual Pet Fostering Program to provide community volunteers to interact with dogs remotely and in-person with the assistance of the FCCA staff at the shelter, (3) obtained grants to help expand the animal enrichment programs to enhance the pet’s adoptability and fund investments to expand our low-cost spay/neuter capabilities, (4) launched a Pet of the Week program with various media outlets enhanced their postings on PetFinder and Adopt-A-Pet – all in the effort to find a forever homes faster for homeless shelter animals. If anyone is interested in adopting one of the dogs or cats at the shelter, please contact the shelter. You can view all of the adoptable pets on Petfinder and Adoption applications can be completed online via the website fccanimals.org.
FCCA is a nonprofit organization that manages and oversees the daily operations of the Campbell County Animal Shelter for Campbell County, TN. Their purpose is to preserve animal life through humane sheltering and finding homes for the thousands of homeless animals that enter shelter every year. Since 2015, they have cared for over 27,800 animals, spay/neutered over 10,500 animals, and provided low-cost vaccines to over 10,000 animals in Campbell County, TN. These accomplishments were achieved through the extensive new programs launched by FCCA. For more information about Friends of Campbell County, TN Animals, visit their website.