Joy was born and raised in the very small town of Cut Off, Louisiana. She's pretty much as Cajun as they come and is from a family of commercial shrimpers. She moved to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2011 to pursue a career in veterinary medicine. There she was able to get hands-on experience in small animal mixed practice, emergency, and specialty medicine. In 2017 she became an RVT. In 2019 she joined our team as an RVT. She later became the manager at the Phoenix location and in 2022 moved to Colorado to manage our new location [citation][3].