© Loudon County Friends Of Animals 2024

  LCFOA is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization

Loudon County Friends of Animals is a group of caring dedicated volunteers who are working hard to rescue and place the animals that find their way into the public shelter system.  The local animal shelters in East Tennessee do not have the resources, financial backing, space or manpower, to house all the stray and surrendered animals on an indefinite basis.  Therefore, the clock starts ticking for these animals at the moment that they are deemed ready for adoption.  LCFOA is an Adult and Senior cat ONLY Rescue.  Everyone wants a kitten during kitten season leaving the poor momma cats to sit in shelters until their time is up.  We concentrate on saving these sweet adults and seniors who deserve a great loving home too.

Our primary mission is spay/neuter working at ground zero.  For many years our mission was rescue only.  After pulling hundreds from local shelters each year to try and lower euthanasia, we never saw any changes in intake.  Therefore, we changed our primary mission to spay/neuter for community cats and kittens in order to reduce the number of animals being born which might eventually find their way into the shelter system.     

 

LCFOA  will continue to work hard in rescue to insure that as many animals as possible are rescued through either direct adoption, or placement into the foster care system before the clock stops ticking and their time is up.    Please help us make a difference!

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Seniors for Seniors Program

At LCFOA Seniors are EXTRA Special.  The owner of LCFOA is a senior so she cares about seniors.  When a senior has to give up their precious companion due to moving to a nursing home or can’t take care of them anymore, we help these kitties. LCFOA also helps find homes for senior cats when the owner dies, keeping them from going to the shelter.

 

LCFOA then finds a lonely senior human that needs a companion.  A calm loving old kitty can make all the difference in the world.

2023 Adoption Results

LCFOA is pleased that they were directly involved in saving the lives of 527 animals in 2023.  LCFOA pulls adults and seniors from three  shelters in Blount, Monroe and Anderson Counties.  We also took into rescue and found homes for many residents needing help rehoming their pets to keep them from going to the shelter here in Loudon County.

 

LCFOA started a free Spay/Neuter program for low income families in 2014 and has spay/neutered hundreds of cats to keep the over population down at our local shelter. 

 

 

FREE Spay and Neuter Program

LCFOA has a free Spay/Neuter program for Low Income Families in Loudon County only.  Please call Kimmey at 865-809-1400 to set up your appointment.

 

Please visit the SPAY TENNESSEE  website to view a list of all the low cost Spay/Neuter facilities in the state of Tennessee.

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 Free Adoption Barn Cat Program

LCFOA runs a program to save feral cats in three County shelters.  Cats that come into the shelters and over time deemed to be feral and can’t be rehabilitated for indoor homes.  They are spay/neutered, vaccinated and tested for FIV/Felv (negative) and we place them in barn homes across East Tennessee.  We save over 100 Barn Cats a year.  All cats feral or friendly deserve a good home.

Grants

LCFOA wants to thank all the wonderful organizations and individual donors for making us the success that we are in saving animals and getting help for low income families to get their kitties all spay/neutered too.   We operate on a shoe string budget but have saved over 6,100 since we started.  That is a lot of kitties spay/neutered and in loving homes that keeps all of us working hard to save more each and every year.

Petsense Lenoir City

In January 2017 LCFOA opened up an adoption center inside the Petsense store in Lenoir City.  The majority of people want kittens and the poor adults just sit at shelters for a long time or many euthanized, especially seniors who rarely get adopted.   LCFOA is an adult and senior cat only rescue and we work our hardest to save them from getting euthanized.  Every kitty, not just kittens deserve a great home.  Lets please remember, kittens will be adults and seniors someday too.

EBAY Store for the Animals

We sell all types of stuff donated to LCFOA to be sold on our wonderful new EBAY store.  This is how we fund spay/neuter to save the shelter animals.   We are also a Top Rated Seller on EBAY.  Click the link below to visit our ebay store.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

 

We are NOT the “Animal Shelter”.

If you have an animal control problem, call the Loudon County Animal Shelter.

 

Loudon County Friends Of Animals

Loudon County, Tennessee

A group of dedicated volunteers working to rescue the animals that find their way into the shelter system by providing  veterinarian care, sterilization and permanent home placement.

 

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