List of Animal Shelters in East Tennessee

East Tennessee has animal shelters that care for, protect, and place animals that have no home or have been abused. The animal shelters work with local communities to adopt pets out or to solve issues with animal complaints. Although each animal shelter operates differently, they all have one goal--to care for the animals of the community and surrounding areas.

  1. Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society

    • The Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society serves as a place for abandoned, displaced, abused, and unwanted animals of the community. The shelter offers spaying and neutering with a low fee in hopes of lowering the number of unwanted and abandoned animals in the county. The shelter has regular staff members, volunteers, and veterinarians that tend to the animals at the shelter. The shelter presents pictures and information about animals up for adoption and about lost and found animals on the website for easy viewing.

      Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society
      300 Dice St.
      Morristown, TN 37813
      (423) 581-1494
      mhhs.net

    Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley

    • The Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley area helps people understand how to care for their pets and has community projects to raise awareness and money to keep the shelter in operation. The shelter has vaccination clinics and heartworms testing for a small fee and offers an inexpensive spay and neuter program in hopes of controlling the overpopulation of unwanted and abandoned pets in the community. The shelter operates with staff members and volunteers. The website for the shelter includes pictures and information about adoptable pets at the shelter.

      Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley
      800 Millwood Road
      Knoxville, TN 37920
      (865) 573-9675
      humanesocietytennessee.com

    Sevier County Humane Society

    • The Sevier County Humane Society cares for animals that are abandoned or unwanted. It adopts pets out for small fees. The shelter has dogs, cats, and other pets that have found their way to the shelter and need homes. The shelter operates with the help of volunteers and donations. The adoptable pets housed at the shelter can be viewed online, and the shelter has a spay and neuter assistance program.

      Sevier County Humane Society
      959 Gnatty Branch Road
      Sevierville, TN 37862
      (865) 453-7000
      Sevierlibrary.org/humane

    Oak Ridge Humane Society

    • The Oak Ridge Humane Society operates with volunteers and staff members to make sure all animals in the area are given a chance to live a happy life with a family to love them. The shelter does have an assistance plan to help people spay and neuter their pets in order to help control overpopulation.

      Oak Ridge Humane Society
      969 Oak Ridge Turnpike Suite 366
      Oak Ridge, TN 37830
      (865) 425-0794
      andersoncohumane.org