Friends of Animals
Our Featured Pet...
If you are looking for your soul-mutt, you've come to the right place! The dogs are mostly in medium to large sizes.
We also have cats and kittens available for adoption so check out their furry faces too!
The "Happy Tails" section of the website features animals that have already been adopted out.
News
Lost your pet in Jackson County? Please call 268-1866 - it may be one we know about!!
Please have your pet wear an id tag and collar!
Do you have feral (untamed) cats? We work with the Humane Association of Wilson County (in Lebanon) and their Snip-n-Tip clinic. For more information, call us at 268-1866 or HAWC at (615)444-1196.
Please let us know if you'd like to be added to our e-mail newsletter to stay in touch with our activities and the animal news within Jackson County. Call us at 268-1866 or send an e-mail to us at foajacksoncounty@yahoo.com to be added to our e-newsletter distribution.
Who We Are
We are a non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status. There is no shelter in our county and no full-time vet. We are volunteers working to keep Jackson County pet-friendly and help reduce the population of unwanted animals through spaying/neutering and education. We encourage all pet owners to have their pets spayed or neutered! Our focus is reducing the unwanted pet population through prevention and we've helped over 1400 animals to date, including 599 in 2007 and over 200 in 2008.
If you are a Jackson County resident and would like financial assistance to have your pet spayed or neutered, please call 268-1866 and leave a message.
As resources permit, we also rescue the abandoned puppies and kittens found in the county and transfer to other rescues or have them spayed/neutered prior to adoption. Our foster animals don't have expiration dates and won't be put down just because we've had them for awhile. We do keep adoption fees low to encourage adoptions in order to make room in foster homes for more rescues. To date, we've helped over 250 happy dogs and cats find homes!
Adopting a friend
We will require you to sign a contract and wait for a vet appointment to have the animal spayed/neutered if it is not already altered. Most of our dogs are mixed breeds, medium or large sized, with very limited specific information available on the parentage. Our adoption fees for cats are $50-100 and for dogs, $75-150. This is the total cost, with no additional fees or charges. We do offer discounts on a second pet. Fees are largely dependent on the range of vet costs associated with getting that animal healthy and adoptable. Vet records are provided for each animal at time of adoption.
All animals are wormed, current on vaccines (including rabies) and stay on flea/tick prevention while in foster care.
Our cats have been tested for Feline Leukemia prior to adoption.
Our adult dogs are tested for heartworms. Dogs over 6 months of age are on heartworm prevention while in foster care.
We are able to arrange meetings in the Nashville area very easily for interested parents there!
We also do courtesy postings of fixed animals that need new homes and we are not involved in those adoptions, except for posting the pets on our website. All of those animals are spayed/neutered.
Need help training your pet to be a happier member of the family? Try these helpful videos!
Come Visit Us!
We do not have a shelter facility and use foster homes to care for animals awaiting adoption.
Fostering can be hard work, but it is very rewarding! Call 268-1866 if you'd like more information.
Your tax-deductible donations can be sent to the address below with checks payable to "Friends of Animals". Our vet bills are our main expense and with your contributions, we can continue to save abandoned puppies and kittens and spay/neuter more pets in the county.
We gladly accept donations made in honor or memory of someone or a pet. We will send an acknowledgement to the donor and the honoree.
We are also helping the environment by recycling cell phones. Please bring your used items to the drop box at the State Farm office in Gainesboro.
We thank you for your support!
Friends of Animals
PO Box 71
Gainesboro, TN 38562
Phone: 931.268.1866
Email:
foajacksoncounty@yahoo.com
Click here for a list of pets at this shelter
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