Tennessee

We are a new cat rescue in Anderson County supporting the Oak Ridge Animal Shelter. We have fostered for years cats from this shelter and now setting up our own rescue to adopt.

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary is a Forever Foster Home based Sanctuary in beautiful Mount Juliet, Tennessee, generally housing approximately 100 senior dogs at the Sanctuary and many others in temporary and Forever Foster Homes. While providing lifetime homes for senior dogs, OFSDS strives to raise awareness of the joys and challenges of living with older dogs. We are a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Senior dogs, especially those with medical problems or disabilities, face a much greater chance of euthanasia at shelters than younger dogs because it is difficult to find adopters for them due to their shorter additional life expectancy and unknown veterinary costs. Most of these wonderful senior dogs will be able to live happily with a good quality of life if given a chance. They make wonderful companions because they are mature, calm and loving. It is more difficult for them to settle in, and once they do, it is difficult for them to move again. For this reason we strive to find them forever foster homes where they can live out their retirement years as a loved family member. OUR MISSION: To provide a loving home, good food, high quality vet care, compassion and comfort to senior dogs for the remainder of their lives. To build a Forever Foster Home network to enable us to place more senior dogs in loving, home settings for the duration of their lives. To provide education on the joys and challenges of caring for aging dogs. To work with other dog rescue groups to promote the adoption of senior dogs.

The promotion, support and fundraising for a resident and visitor friendly new shelter while meeting the needs of the current shelter; To inspire our community to cultivate the values of kind, compassionate, responsible, humane care and treatment of the county's animals, including stray, feral and owned, through both education and assistance.

We are a new age group using a hands on approach to keep pets with their people. We also rescue and adopt

Blount County Animal Center is a shelter that handles animal control too. We work very hard to be "No Kill". Also provides Free Spay/Neuter services to low income families.

FFAS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing abused, abandoned and neglected animals in and around Middle TN area. We encourage proper pet care and advocate spaying and neutering to help stop pet overpopulation. We currently use a system of foster homes to house all the animals in our care. We are committed to long-term care and placement of all animals that come into our organization. Therefore, we do not use euthanasia as a means of population control. This in turn makes intake of animals into our system depend on the amount of adoptions. FFAS started in the Robertson County area in 1999. A few kind hearts got together and realized the need for a program such as ours. Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary was born. We soon expanded into the surrounding counties of Davidson and Sumner. Since then, many accomplishments have helped make FFAS one of the leaders in our area fighting against pet overpopulation. FFAS operates with an all-volunteer board and staff, which tirelessly work to save as many animals as possible. A partnership with PetSmart allows us to showcase our animals. Cats can be adopted at any time at the Rivergate PetSmart and dogs are seen on Saturdays from 10-2. Future goals include fundraising to help open our own adoption center, and acquisition of land to build our own sanctuary. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 5 million animals are needlessly euthanized due to one fact: There are too many animals! FFAS advocates the spaying and neutering of all companion animals in order to stop this tragedy. All animals adopted from FFAS are altered PRIOR to adoption. Any puppies or kittens take in by FFAS must have their mother spayed. FFAS sponsors the Spay Station of Wilson County Humane Association, which is a mobile spay/neuter unit, to come to different parts of Middle TN to provide low-cost or free spay/neuter to those on government assistance or low income.

WWR was formed in 2018 after many years of fostering and private rescue. We are in rural West TN and the local shelter does not offer vet care and often euthanizes to make room for intake. We formed WWR to help the burden of the other rescues in the area.

We help all animals in need from shelters, the streets and kill pens. We incorporated early in 2016 and have since saved 2677 animals to date.

Provide a safe haven for all companion animals in need

We are a county funded, county owned animal shelter. Our primary mission is animal control. My personal mission is the return of every lost pet, finding homes for every discarded, surrendered, or otherwise displaced potential pet. No other occupation brings me as much joy and heartache. Our county as a spay neuter problem. It saddens me to know every day dogs and cats are breeding and the litters will show up at our doors. We have a functional capacity of 40 animals, with a maximum of 80. We currently house 63. Our shelter sees over 1000 animals a year through our doors. I want to educate the public of spay neuter, bring in grants to help the people do so, and get our intake down to a reasonable 300-400. If we can do it, I can ensure every animal is adopted back to our citizens, or rescued.