Joy

Joy is a sweet little girl with a bit of a spicy side...when it comes to other dogs. She is definitely female dominant so is not a fan of other female dogs. She loves the boys though, big and small and she LOVES cats! <br/><br/>We named her Joy because that's the energy she brings, plus it was the holidays when she randomly showed up at our rescue in December 2024. We checked the camera's and didn't see any cars dropping a dog off, just her running down the road and hanging out until a volunteer pulled up. <br/><br/>Joy is around 3 years old, she knows sit, stay and walks great on a leash! She loves people and seems to be ok around kids. <br/><br/>The reason we've had Joy so long is because she's being dealing with some urinary tract issues since she came in. We noticed she was peeing a little bit a lot and then blood started to be present in her urine. We thought it was a UTI, it wasn't. Stone? Nope. After many vet visits from our regular vet, a specialist in Summerville and NC State Veterinary school, tests and ultrasounds, we still can't get to the bottom of what's going on inside her little body. Her bladder is red and enflamed as well as her urethra. A cystoscopy was done at NC State, where they took samples and biopsies for testing and nothing came back positive. She went through 30 days of doxycycline to see if that would help, and it did a bit, but she was still having the occasional accident. So now she is on prednisone for 3 weeks to see if it'll help her inflammation. If problems still persist, we're just going to have to assume that she has an over active bladder and her adopter needs to know that she'll need frequent potty breaks and time to empty her bladder. She doesn't release everything at once, she'll pee a little here and a little there. Emptying her bladder is important so that an infection doesn't start.<br/><br/>Obviously, whoever is interested in adopting Joy will get the full story and records on what's been going on with her the past year because that was the short version. Aside from her bladder, she is a very happy and healthy dog and you wouldn't know something is bother her! Joy will be ready for adoption in a month, once we finish this round of prednisone and talk to NC State about the outcome.

Joy is a sweet little girl with a bit of a spicy side...when it comes to other dogs. She is definitely female dominant so is not a fan of other female dogs. She loves the boys though, big and small and she LOVES cats!

We named her Joy because that's the energy she brings, plus it was the holidays when she randomly showed up at our rescue in December 2024. We checked the camera's and didn't see any cars dropping a dog off, just her running down the road and hanging out until a volunteer pulled up.

Joy is around 3 years old, she knows sit, stay and walks great on a leash! She loves people and seems to be ok around kids.

The reason we've had Joy so long is because she's being dealing with some urinary tract issues since she came in. We noticed she was peeing a little bit a lot and then blood started to be present in her urine. We thought it was a UTI, it wasn't. Stone? Nope. After many vet visits from our regular vet, a specialist in Summerville and NC State Veterinary school, tests and ultrasounds

Joy is a sweet little girl with a bit of a spicy side...when it comes to other dogs. She is definitely female dominant so is not a fan of other female dogs. She loves the boys though, big and small and she LOVES cats!

We named her Joy because that's the energy she brings, plus it was the holidays when she randomly showed up at our rescue in December 2024. We checked the camera's and didn't see any cars dropping a dog off, just her running down the road and hanging out until a volunteer pulled up.

Joy is around 3 years old, she knows sit, stay and walks great on a leash! She loves people and seems to be ok around kids.

The reason we've had Joy so long is because she's being dealing with some urinary tract issues since she came in. We noticed she was peeing a little bit a lot and then blood started to be present in her urine. We thought it was a UTI, it wasn't. Stone? Nope. After many vet visits from our regular vet, a specialist in Summerville and NC State Veterinary school, tests and ultrasounds, we still can't get to the bottom of what's going on inside her little body. Her bladder is red and enflamed as well as her urethra. A cystoscopy was done at NC State, where they took samples and biopsies for testing and nothing came back positive. She went through 30 days of doxycycline to see if that would help, and it did a bit, but she was still having the occasional accident. So now she is o