Joy is the director of Healing Hearts Animal Rescue, a small local animal rescue organization for cats and dogs with special needs. She has over ten years of experience fostering cats and dogs who are blind and deaf, as well as cats with AIDS, leukemia and FIP. Joy has been a pet therapy volunteer with her Delta-certified therapy cat, Litah. She is the owner of a deaf Aussie mix as well as a deaf and vision-impaired mini Aussie. She can be contacted at healingheartsrescue@hotmail.com