Kindness Counts Spay and Neuter Clinic

Kindness Counts provides true low cost spay, neuter, and vaccination services for cats, dogs and other small pets throughout Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, Knoxville and the Smoky Mountains area. We are a 50l(c)(3) non-profit all volunteer organization operating since 2003

Feral Cat Friends of Sevier County had its first meeting in June, 2003. We started out with about six members that trapped local feral cat colonies and took them to P.P.A.W. (People Promoting Animal Welfare) in Greenback, TN. to be fixed, vaccinated, ear tipped, and returned. After about one year we filed and received our 501(c)(3) non-profit status. As word spread about our program we started getting stray (tame) cats as well as pet cats that people couldn't afford to fix locally. We also started getting requests to help dogs. Since that time we have fixed over 4,200 cats, 350 dogs, and 11 rabbits. Of these we have adopted over 600 cats, kittens, and dogs through the Just-Furr Pets pet store on Dolly Parton Parkway in Sevierville, TN. All of these adoptable pets were fixed before adoption. As our mission grew beyond caring for feral and stray cat colonies we knew a new name was also needed. Therefore, in the spring of 2008 we officially changed the group name to Kindness Counts. In 2003 we started looking for property or a building to open our own low cost clinic so we could expand our services to larger dogs and handle more cats than we could easily transport. In December 2006, seven acres on Pleasant Hill Road in Sevier County were donated to be used for the spay/neuter clinic and future no-kill housing for pets. Since then the property has been cleaned up (there was a lot of trash and old buildings that needed to be removed). Our low cost spay/neuter clinic is now completed and open to the public. In April of 2009, an adjoining piece of property was donated. With over 2.5 acres, it has four usable buildings (two small houses, a garage, and pole barn), two septic systems, a well, electric, lots of road frontage, and flat land for dog runs. We plan to renovate these buildings for animal housing. Our first goal has been reached, opening the low cost spay/neuter, and vaccination clinic serving our adoptable pets and the public. Additional services include loaning out traps for people managing feral cat colonies through TNR (Trap, Neuter, and Return) and continuing our pick-up and delivery service for the elderly or homebound

Mission — Loving, Protecting and Caring for God's precious creatures