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Joey
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I can cope...I can cope...
Info
First Appearance You Cannot Win (first appearance)
Pushing the PG Rating IN YOUR MIND (proper debut)
Tag J-insignia
Gender Male
Species/Breed Dog/Mutt
Owner(s) Jake
Relationship Squeak (girlfriend)
Friends & Family Peanut, Lester, Fido (older brother), Dallas, Great Kitsune
Affiliation Grape
Not-so-much
Friends
Bino (older brother)
Location Dimension Prime, Babylon Gardens

Joey is a supporting character in Housepets!. He first appeared in The Game but was properly introduced in Cat Tail. He is Squeak's boyfriend.

Original Site Biography[]

Joey: Bino’s younger brother. Was the runt of his litter, and is usually ignored for the most part. But it’s okay, he can cope . . . he can cope . . . He also is friends with some of the weirder neighborhood dogs and loves him some animuhs and D&Ds.

Physical Appearance[]

Joey is very similar in color to his brother Bino; they both have tan fur and dark brown fur on their ears. The main difference is that Joey has a brown spot around his left eye, he does not have a brown spot on his back, and his eye color is light-blue as opposed to Bino's green. He originally wore a green collar similar to Bino's, but later on got a new light-blue collar and matching blue goggles to differentiate himself further, as many people would mix him up with Bino in earlier comics.

Personality[]

Joey is generally the weird kid. He's a geek and an otaku: he greatly enjoys anime and playing D&D with his friends Lester and Dallas. Joey is also a talented artist, and a recurring gag features him drawing for Peanut's Spot (Superdog) comics in exchange for money or including his own character, and is its only other critic aside from Grape. While his original character was meant to be creepy and weird, he has been generally toned down to be more nerdy.

He's also in a relationship with Squeak, a mouse, who he met after role-playing in a cat-suit. Don't ask.

General Information[]

Joey is the youngest of three brothers; his older brothers being Fido and Bino. Bino tends to simply ignore Joey while Joey looks up to Fido. His owner is Jake, Jeff's younger brother, and he lives in a dog-house with his girlfriend Squeak, which he keeps secret as a dog and mouse relationship is even more taboo than a dog and cat one. Joey is generally ignored by most of the other neighborhood pets and usually only hangs out with Lester and Dallas (originally only referred to as "Joey's creepy friends"), watching anime, going to movies or playing DnD (even if he gets a bit too into it.) He also has a secret cat-suit which he uses to integrate himself with the neighborhood cats, and is a fan of the Pridelands series.

Joey first appeared after the other dogs ostracized Peanut for drawing a dog with a cat's tail. While Joey initially complimented Peanut's drawing, he immediately creeped him out by saying he wanted to wear her skin. Joey also showed Peanut his cat-suit, and revealed he was dating a mouse named Squeak. Later that Christmas he got Squeak cheese, which she says is a stereotype. He later attended the release of the new Pridelands book out of his cat-suit so that Squeak wouldn't know he went there. When The Milton Ferrets inherited Henry Milton's fortune and announced they would give one pet a prize, Joey attempted to dress as a ferret and pass himself off as their cousin Aran, but he was found out. We were also introduced to Lester, who turned out to be more of a weeaboo than Joey, arguing with him about the alleged "butchering" of a Japanese film dubbed in English.

Being an artist, Joey would also occasionally draw for Peanut's Spot comics, asking for $10 after he drew a better version of The Cyborg. He would introduce his own character into the comic which he would draw himself, but he began to annoy Peanut by constantly signing his name in every panel. Later on he would tutor Peanut on how to draw better, although Peanut infuriated him by tracing over old Superman comics.

During the events of Temple Crashers 2, Joey and his friends join the expedition through the temple after Keene frames it to be a LARP event. Joey dresses up in a wizard's outfit and is able to cast magic in the dungeon. They are able to navigate easily due to Squeak's role as the healer and Lester's strength, beating several monsters. Later on Great Kitsune joins the group, though they are unaware that he is a celestial. Once they reach the bottom floor, they are wiped out by The Forgotten, but Squeak heals them all. When the temple starts collapsing, Dallas is able to "beam" everyone out to escape. It is shown later that they believed the event to be the work of holodeck technology.

Joey later visits the hot springs with Squeak, where he gets trapped like everyone else when it snows in.

Trivia[]

  • After the shift to the 3.0 art-style Joey was redesigned. His green collar was changed to light blue, and he was given blue goggles, possibly a reference to the Shounen Anime genre, and to further distinguish him from Bino, as people had trouble telling them apart previously.
    • He and Tarot are the only characters to have changed their collar completely.
    • His goggles were round on their first appearance, but were rectangular after that.
  • Joey and Squeak are the only characters who are seen living in a doghouse (not counting the one King bought for Sasha in The Present.)
  • Joey is one of two pets who aren't in a relationship with either a dog or a cat, the other being Zach.
  • Joey is able to play the guitar.
  • Joey, like Sasha, did not appear at all in 2015.


Characters
Dogs Peanut | Bino | Fox | King | Tarot | Fido | Joey | Sasha | Tiger | Bailey | Ralph | Kevin | Duchess | Rex | Lester | Dallas | Satau | Mungo | Olive | Ace | Rook
Cats Grape | Max | Sabrina | Marvin | Res | Jasper | The Bigglesworths | Fiddler and Keys | Delusional Steve | Ptah
Others Zach | Spo | Squeak | Karishad | Falstaff and Truck | Itsuki | Jessica | Custom Ink | What Chicken | Bruce and Roosevelt | Marion | Lois
Ferrets Keene Milton | Lana Milton | Duke Milton | Simon Milton | Rock Milton | Pit Milton
Wolves Miles | Lucretia | Darth Vader Sanchez | Rockstar Hawk | North Star | Daryl | Other Daryl | Lucretia's Mother | "Four Finger Discount" Jack | Poncho | Elaine | Natalie | Uncle Deadeye | Rodney | Snow | Rodney's Cubs
Humans Earl Sandwich | Jill Sandwich | Ryan Byron | Bill Lindberg | Jerry Arbelt | Jeff | Jake | Jeeves | Mr. Steward | Joel Robinson | Mr. Hartford
Fictional Spot (Superdog) | Stripe | Jim-Jim | Bat-Bat | Regular Hawk | Criminals | Pridelands Characters
Celestials Pete the Gryphon | Spirit Dragon | Great Kitsune | Cerberus | Bahamut | Denizens of Heaven
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