Pet Help in the Tri-Cities

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In the Tri-Cities and need help now? For an emergency, go to a 24-hour hospital below and tell them if cost is a barrier. To lower costs, start with the spay/neuter programs and low-cost clinics. For a bill you can’t cover, get a free funding plan.

Want what’s closest to you? Search by ZIP code or your location. Nearby: Knoxville. Chattanooga.

Spay, neuter and vouchers

• Animal Shelter of Sullivan County - Community Cat (TNR) Program
  380 Masengill Road, Blountville, TN 37617 · (423) 279-2741
  Trap-Neuter-Return program for unowned outdoor community cats, with spay/neuter at the shelter's surgical suite. Humane traps can be rented from the shelter.
• Animal Shelter of Sullivan County - Spay/Neuter Services
  380 Masengill Road, Blountville, TN 37617 · (423) 279-2741
  Affordable spay/neuter surgery for owned pets and outdoor community cats at the shelter's state-approved surgical suite, the first shelter-based one in the Tri-Cities region. Additional vaccines, testing and services are available.

Low-cost clinics and vaccines

• Animal Shelter of Sullivan County - Low-Cost Vaccine Clinic
  380 Masengill Road, Blountville, TN 37617 · (423) 279-2741
  Appointment-based low-cost vaccine clinics offering dog and cat core vaccines, Bordetella, Lepto, rabies, microchips (free with a vaccine), deworming and flea treatments.

Veterinary hospitals and clinics

• Airport Pet Emergency Clinic
  2436 TN-75, Blountville, TN 37617 · (423) 279-0574
  After-hours emergency and critical care clinic for dogs and cats in the Tri-Cities, open overnight on weekdays and 24 hours on weekends and holidays, with emergency surgery and an in-house lab. Accepts CareCredit and Scratchpay.

Pet food

• Animal Shelter of Sullivan County - Bowlful of Love Pet Food Bank
  380 Masengill Road, Blountville, TN 37617 · (423) 279-2741
  Donation-funded pet food bank run by the Animal Shelter of Sullivan County. Food is given out when available.

Keeping your pet, end-of-life care and pet loss

• Animal Shelter of Sullivan County
  380 Masengill Road, Blountville, TN 37617 · (423) 279-2741
  Sullivan County's animal shelter, offering adoptions, intake and rehoming help, foster and volunteer programs, a pet food bank, low-cost vaccine clinics and spay/neuter services. Strays must come in through animal control.
• Bristol, Tennessee Police Department Animal Control
  801 Anderson Street, Bristol, TN 37620 · (423) 989-5600
  City animal control unit that enforces Bristol, TN animal ordinances, responds to calls about strays and animal welfare, provides pet care education and directs people to animal resources in the community. Non-emergency strays can be reported online.
• Washington County-Johnson City Animal Shelter
  3411 N. Roan Street, Johnson City, TN 37601 · (423) 926-8769
  Animal shelter and animal control center for Johnson City and Washington County. Adoption by application, intake of strays and surrendered pets, lost pet reunions, foster and volunteer programs.

Paying for a bigger bill

Ask any hospital about payment plans, CareCredit or Scratchpay, and apply to more than one assistance program. Ways to pay a vet bill in Tennessee lists the programs that are open now, and a free funding plan puts them together for your pet, with a free fundraiser page if you want one.

Every listing was checked on the provider’s own website. Know a place we’re missing? Tell us.