Chrissy Joy has embraced her last name as a life hack.
Spreading “joy,” she said, makes life better. For example, about once a week, Joy offers her credit card while in line for fast food to buy breakfast for a stranger, she said.
“My goal is to spread positivity,” she said in a telephone interview.
Which brings us to Joy’s recent visit to Chattanooga. She was here on the first weekend in March filming a television commercial with some of her award-winning trick dogs. Contractually, she can’t name the company until the ads air, she said. Her 2-year-old border collie, Whidbey, was cast in the commercial for his ability to ride a skateboard.
Joy, a 34-year-old Maryland resident, said it was her lifelong dream to train dogs, and she has managed to build a career around her passion. Her dogs, which have won multiple world and national trick competitions, have appeared in commercials, television shows and movies. Last year, her dogs were one of the acts on “America’s Got Talent” on NBC.