Friends of Campbell County, TN Animals shares an animal shelter community impact report


JACKSBORO, TN (SPECIAL TO WLAF)– Friends of Campbell County, TN Animals (FCCA) just completed its 10th year of operating the Campbell County, TN Animal Shelter and had another successful year in serving the animals and community. For its fiscal-year 2024-25, FCCA provided care to 6,803 animals. This included intaking 1,802 dogs and cats, providing vaccinations to 2,672 animals, and providing spay/neuter procedures on 2,085 animals. FCCA is proud to be providing numerous services that benefit the Campbell County Community and animals.

FCCA started its 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 7,935 animals. Had these services not been performed, Campbell County would have experienced over 40,000 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 6,990 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, TN Commission to be designated a “no-kill” shelter which simply means that we have a goal of a live-release of at least 90% as we recognize as an open intake county animal shelter that we will have to euthanize some animals due to injury, illness, behavior or safety issues. In the fiscal year 2024-25, our live-release rate was 92.1%.

For the fiscal-year 2024-25 we reunited 61 pets with their families, we had 429 adoptions in the community, and we found homes for 1,103 animals that we transferred to animal rescue organizations, including through our 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 63 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, we have cared for over 26,300 animals at the shelter. After ensuring the health and well-being of the animals, we reunited 892 animals with their families, had 2,939 dog and cat adoptions in the community and sent 16,824 to outside rescue organizations. Over the 10 years FCCA has been operating the animal shelter,
we have saved over 84% of the animals that came into the shelter, including achieving a live release rate of 92.1% for the fiscal year 2024-25.

FCCA is also proud to help families in need of temporary assistance with their family pets. In the fiscal year 2024-25, we provided 59,385 pounds of dog food to 645 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 2024-25, we launched several programs including Pets For Patriots to support the adoption of the most overlooked shelter animals by veterans in the Campbell County, TN community, 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, launched a community partnership with Bo’s At Indian River Marina and FCCA received a grant from Petco Love to help FCCA save the lives of our shelter animals, expand our animal enrichment programs to enhance the pet’s adoptability and fund investments to expand our low-cost spay/neuter capabilities.

If anyone is interested in adopting one of our dogs or cats in our shelter, please contact us. You can view all of our adoptable pets on Petfinder and adoption applications can be completed online via our 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. Our purpose is to preserve animal life through humane sheltering and finding homes for the thousands of homeless animals that enter our shelter every year. Since 2015, we have cared for over 26,000 animals, spay/neutered over 7,900 animals, and provided low-cost vaccines to over 6,900 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 our website.

About Friends of Campbell County, TN Animals

FCCA is a non-profit organization formed in 2012 by a core group of volunteers determined to have a positive impact on animal welfare in the Campbell County, TN community, eventually taking over shelter management and animal control services for Campbell County in 2015. Our goal is to preserve animal life through sheltering animals in a humane environment, promoting pet adoptions, fostering rescue efforts, and inspiring advocacy. We urge responsibility and the importance of spay/neuter of cats and dogs to reduce pet overpopulation, striving to be an animal low-kill community for Campbell County, TN. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-07/22/2025-6AM)

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