Friends of Jackson County Animal Shelter

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FJCAS is dedicated to the animals of Jackson County TN, offering low-cost spay/neuter services, community pet food programs, fostering and adoption while we seek to build a shelter for abandoned animals within Jackson County.

UPDATE: THANK YOU All for your outpouring of love for Weets, she has found her forever home today.. 💜 **Weets — Lookin...
08/23/2026

UPDATE: THANK YOU All for your outpouring of love for Weets, she has found her forever home today..

💜 **Weets — Looking for a New Home** 💜

**2‑year‑old female Lhasa Apso • Spayed • UTD on all shots**

Weets is a **sweet, mellow girl** with a calm, easygoing personality. She’s **housebroken, affectionate, and loves people** — the perfect companion for someone who enjoys quiet company and gentle energy.

Her owner is **facing health challenges** and is sadly overwhelmed, so we’re helping to find Weets a safe, loving home.

👉 **This is not part of the FJCAS program**, but we will be **reviewing applications** to ensure she lands in the right place.

# # # 🏡 **About Weets**
- Female **Lhasa Apso**, approx. **2 years old**
- **Spayed and UTD on all vaccines**
- **Chill, mellow energy**
- **Housebroken and affectionate**

If you’re interested in giving Weets a peaceful home, please reach out through our Adoption form https://www.friendsofjacksoncountyanimalshelter.org/adopt . She deserves a soft landing and someone to love her as much as she’ll love you. 💕

UPDATE: FJCAS has had an overwhelming response to our upcoming Namaste Spay Neuter Days! We are holding off taking any a...
08/10/2026

UPDATE: FJCAS has had an overwhelming response to our upcoming Namaste Spay Neuter Days! We are holding off taking any additional applications until we have a chance to review all that we have received already.

Thank you, everyone, for spaying and neutering your pets!
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The Jason Heigl Foundation has selected FJCAS as recipient hosts of the Namaste Spay & Neuter Initiative! This incredible grant will provide three days of FREE spay and neuter (including rabies vaccine and microchip) for Jackson County pets!

The Namaste dates are set for three Wednesdays: September 16, October 7 and October 21.

Huge thanks to the Jason Heigl Foundation for extending this generous opportunity to our community!

FJCAS Fall Yard Sale, September 19th, 8am-3pm at the old Dairy Shack!==============It’s the event bargain hunters and pe...
08/09/2026

FJCAS Fall Yard Sale, September 19th, 8am-3pm at the old Dairy Shack!
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It’s the event bargain hunters and pet lovers alike look forward to every year! And this time, your support will go even farther because Spay Tennessee is MATCHING the first $500 we raise! That means $1,000 total from the Yard Sale will go to sponsoring low-cost spays/neuters for animals in Jackson County!

Additional funds raised will support our growing pet fostering program, which is so essential until Jackson County has a shelter.

TO DONATE ITEMS: Yard Sale Donations accepted from 1pm-4pm every Tuesday at the former Dairy Shack, 544 N. Grundy Quarles Gainesboro, TN (located between Lane’s and Sammy's). Grateful for your clean, gently used, working order, unbroken items. No cloth furniture, please, and no mattresses.

Thank you so much for your continued support for a "good paws”!

07/20/2026

So true, so true! We love us some pitties!

What Does SHELTER Really Mean?==============As a noun, a shelter is a protective state providing refuge from danger. As ...
07/12/2026

What Does SHELTER Really Mean?
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As a noun, a shelter is a protective state providing refuge from danger. As a verb, to shelter is to protect from harm.

The sweet, abandoned, neglected, abused and severely ill dog you see in these photos was not sheltered. Not by any definition of the word.

Kind folks at the Baptist Church found him suffering in their parking lot and called us. We came quickly and did all we could for him, and so did the vet. And despite all he had been through, this sweet boy responded with trust and grace to the strangers helping him.

But too much damage had been done, and for too long. The only good thing we can say is that he passed with a full tummy, surrounded by soothing words, kind faces and gentle hands. Maybe for the first time in his life, he was sheltered.

They say you shouldn't waste time thinking about what coulda, shoulda been. But when a suffering animal looks up at you with trusting, hopeful eyes, that's all you can think about.

We called this sweet boy "Tank". Maybe if we had a shelter in Jackson County, Tank would have been surrendered years ago by the people who didn't love him. Maybe he would have stood a chance at a good and loving home and a better name than Tank - because maybe he would have been named by someone who knew and loved him, not some stranger choosing a name while fighting back tears and hating the path that brought this sweet animal to a heartbreaking end.

The Friends of Jackson County Animal Shelter (FJCAS) is a 501c3 nonprofit formed by a local group of volunteers working to raise the funds to build an animal shelter in Jackson County. Because our county really, really needs one. For now, we rely on foster homes to care for animals waiting to be adopted. And we never have enough foster homes, even though many of our volunteers are housing, 6, 8 or 10 animals each.

Please help us to give shelter while we work to build a shelter. If you might be willing to open your home to a lonely dog or cat, please reach out to us. You can phone us, contact us through our website at https://www.fjcastn.org or message us here. FJCAS pays the cost of all medical care and food for our fostered animals, but our fosters provide the love - and that's priceless.

07/02/2026

The Friends of Jackson County Animal Shelter works for the pets and people of Jackson County, TN, with low-cost spay/neuter, community pet food distribution, fostering and adoption while working to build an animal shelter for abandoned and unwanted pets.

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PO Box 31
Gainesboro, TN
38562

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