Kelpie X Border Collie · Shoot the Dog, Volume Two
Joey, the Kelpie cross who just wants to be with someone
Look closely at Joey's portrait in Shoot the Dog, Volume Two and you will see a small brown treat hanging in the air above her head. She has seen it too. Every hair of her is pointed at it.
Her page is short, and it says more in five lines than most adoption profiles manage in a page:
Joey the Kelpie X Border Collie was surrendered at a young age to Homeless Hounds. She doesn't care what she's doing as long as she is with someone.
A rescue dog's one rule
"As long as she is with someone." For a dog who was surrendered young, that is the whole philosophy. Kelpies and Border Collies are both working breeds, bred to stay close to their people and to watch them for the next job. Joey seems to have decided that the job is simply being there.
Her family goes on:
She is also very inquisitive and loves animals, especially Cows and Horses. A sucker for a weekend morning cuddle in bed, she'll happily spend the days at the hockey club, running after a ball.
So the weekend goes like this: a cuddle in bed first, then the hockey club, then the ball, for as long as anyone will throw it. Ask anyone who lives with a Kelpie cross and they will tell you that is a good weekend.
On the facing page
Opposite Joey is Zero, an American X English Staffy his family calls "an absolute ball of energy". They clearly know him well:
The scariest thing about this fur baby is he might lick you to death! - is it possible to be part lizard also?
Two dogs, two families, one spread. That is how Shoot the Dog works: more than 250 dogs in each volume, each with a portrait and a few lines from the people who know them best. Every family photographed paid a $100 participation fee, and all of it went directly to an animal rescue group.
Joey and Zero are in Shoot the Dog, Volume Two, along with Bambi, who was delivered by Santa, and Evie and Minimus, the dachshunds with a party trick.