About Joy

Hi I am Joy, the long time partner of Ray the dogman. Having been born in Kent during the Battle of Britain, I guess that might have had something to do with my independent nature.

A country girl at heart, my father bought me my first dog when I was six. Peter was my constant companion as I spent a lot of time on my own. We explored the woods and fields around our home and Peter would show me many sights that I would probably have missed if we had not been together. He pulled me out of the pond when I fell in whilst fishing for sticklebacks because the log that I was on rolled over. He helped me to find mushrooms in the autumn to take home for breakfast. He would pick blackberries off the brambles as easily as I could and then get told off because he would go home with juice dripping from his fur.

He helped my sister Carol to walk by allowing her to put her arms around his neck and if she fell he would lick her all over until she started to laugh. For me, life would have been a disaster without a dog and so it has been for the rest of my life.