Meet Happy!
With a name like Happy and those absolutely gorgeous amber-orange eyes, this girl is pretty hard to forget once you meet her.
Happy is a sweet, friendly girl who has been waiting for a family since December 2025. After spending so many months living in a kennel, she's more than ready to trade shelter life for walks, adventures, a soft bed, and people of her very own.
Happy does well with other dogs and even shared her kennel with her buddy Dudley. She's comfortable around canine friends and has shown herself to be a social, easygoing girl.
She's currently around 60 pounds, although she's carrying a few extra "kennel pounds" after months without the regular exercise she'd get in a home. We have a feeling Happy is going to LOVE getting out for walks, exploring the neighborhood, and getting back into shape with her new family.
We believe Happy may be a shepherd mix, although, like so many rescue dogs, her actual family tree is anyone's guess. What we do know is that she's beautiful, sweet, dog-friendly, and ready for someone to finally choose her.
Happy has spent enough time watching the world from inside a kennel.
She's ready to be someone's walking buddy.
Someone's couch companion.
Someone's best friend.
Most importantly, she's ready to live up to her name and have her own happy ending.
Basics: She is a spayed female guessed to be around 3 yrs old and she weighs close to 60lbs. She is currently in a foster in North KC
Adoption Process:
- Please fill out our adoption application: https://www.dayofthedogs.org/adoption-application
- One of our team members will get back to you via phone.
- Our dogs can be seen by appointment only. We do not have a facility at this time. Dogs are in foster homes or boarding
- Adoption fee of $200 helps to cover transport costs, spay/neuter, initial vaccines, rabies, fecal, initial worming, and microchip.
-We do not place holds on our dogs. Please do not contact us until you are prepared to adopt. NOTE: We are very good about updating the pet's profiles once adopted. So no need to write us to ask "Is he/she still available?" If the post is up, the dog is still available.
About Day of the Dogs
Day of the Dogs is a volunteer-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping shelter and rescue dogs find safety, families, and second chances.
Founded in 2015 by a Kansas City native, Day of the Dogs began after Pam moved to Houston, Texas and witnessed firsthand the devastating shelter overcrowding crisis facing southern communities, where some shelters have only days to find an outcome for homeless pets.
Today, Day of the Dogs coordinates life-saving transports from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other southern areas to rescue partners, shelters, fosters, and adopters in Northwest Indiana/Chicagoland and the Kansas City region — communities where adoption demand can help create better outcomes for pets in need. We also focus on long stay dogs in the Greater Kansas City and surrounding rural areas to help those pets get out of kennels and into homes.
We also facilitate direct adoptions through our foster networks in both Kansas City and Northwest Indiana and partner with shelters and rescue organizations across Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana to save more lives together.
Because every open foster home creates another opportunity to save a dog, we are always looking for foster families to join our mission.
Day of the Dogs operates entirely on donations. Every transport, veterinary appointment, supply purchase, and life saved is possible because of supporters who believe every dog deserves a chance.
Donate or learn more: www.dayofthedogs.org
SWEET PEA
Australian Cattle Dog Blue Heeler, Hound
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Dyer, Indiana
female, medium, baby
Australian Cattle Dog Blue Heeler, Hound
Dyer, Indiana
