UPDATE (08/10/23): We have an excellent foster home lined up for Lita and are hoping to have her out of the shelter on Saturday, August 12th, 2023. Further updates to follow.
Foster or Foster-to-Adopt Home needed
Meet Lita
Lita was picked up as a stray about 2 weeks ago in Illinois. The shelter was able to figure out who her owner was and made several attempts to contact them and never received a response back. Two days after arriving at the shelter, Lita had a seizure. The vet believes the seizure caused her to go blind because she suddenly was bumping into things, something she wasn’t doing prior to the seizure and it isn’t related to balance, it is related to her sight. Some of the shelter staff think she could see when she came in and some thought she may have already had some visual impairment when she came in. Either way, she is blind now. She has done remarkably well though and hasn’t let her lack of vision impact her happy little 34 pound self. She has gotten really good at listening for vocal cues and sounds to find her way around. The large yard at the shelter has many obstacles in it and she quickly figured out how to navigate through it all. She pays attention to the voices of the staff for guidance and if she goes a little too far, she LISTENS and comes back. She is believed to be 2 years old and in spite of not being able to see, Lita hucklebutts and acts just like a seeing bull terrier except that, unlike most other bull terriers, she LISTENS every time her name is called (up to this point anyway)! She loves any kind of attention and is sweet as pie. Based on what they have observed at the shelter, we would be willing to try placing her in a home with a calm, relaxed dog of similar size or bigger with medium to lower energy. The shelter tested her with a very friendly male Rottweiler as they didn’t have a dog friendly dog of similar size to Lita. The Rottweiler tried playfully pawing at her back to get her to play. She walked under him many times, followed him around and gave a few tail wags of excitement. He did get a bit pushy for her and she would crouch away and pull her ears back but no signs of aggression, more of annoyance or him just being too much for her. They did not test her around smaller animals so we will err on the side of caution and say no smaller animals. We would love to get her out of the shelter as soon as possible so we can get her to a vet for further evaluation which would be covered by us. She is taking an anticonvulsant for her seizure and will continue to do so unless the vet we have her see advises otherwise. Since we do not know her history and since younger children may be more apt to not understand to let her know they are approaching her so she isn’t startled, kids 12 and older. If you live within 6 hours of Aurora, IL (or further but within our area of coverage and are wiling to drive more), fulfill the criteria described above and can offer Lita a home, please either message our main inbox or Lisa Taubman Blount directly.
