Found Epileptic Pit Bull Needs New Home or Rescue - The Story of Juniper

On the day she found us.

She wasn't interested in the blanket I got her, so I put it on her. Still not interested.

We didn't exactly find Juniper, she kind of found us. She walked right onto a neighbors' lawn, and the neighbors came knocking on our door because they thought she was ours. Clearly, she wasn't our dog, but the neighbor was so scared of her that we brought her into our front yard. She was exhausted, panting, and very docile. We just knew that if we took her to the pound, she wouldn't come back out alive, so we set out to find her owners ourselves.

That's her in the center on a group walk with my dogs.

Resting after coming back from the vet.

Fliers went up at the park, local veterinarians' offices, the pound, and everywhere in between. I posted her on Craigslist, FidoFinder, and even the Los Angeles Times. No one came to claim her. She was wearing a collar, but no tags. My vet confirmed that she had a microchip, but it wasn't registered to anyone.

Her favorite activity.

A couple of weeks later, we were awakened by banging on the coffee table. Juniper was having a seizure. She went on phenobarbital, which worked for about a month or two. She then had a string of seizures that weren't responding to phenobarb or valium. After 3 days shuttling her back and forth from her new vet to the emergency vet for overnight seizure watch, she is now stabilized on both phenobarb and kBr. She's had only one minor seizure since then.

She's more athletic than she looks- she learned to jump these puppy gates, so we got taller ones.

She scratches her back sometimes by wiggling around - it's cute. =)

Unfortunately, we've come to the realization that her people aren't coming for her, and we can't keep her. We had already maxed out our credit card getting a tumor removed from one of our other dogs, and now we've just about maxed out our Care Credit on emergency vet care for Juniper. We're buying her meds on Care Credit, and she's overdue for bloodwork. We didn't exactly clear a third dog with our landlord either, but for the moment it was okay because we're renting from family. We have to relocate now, however, and the few apartments we found that would take a pit bull would not take us with three dogs. We need help.

Juniper's glucose levels and thyroid check out okay. She got her rabies shot so we could license her, but we were going to space out her other shots (haven't been able to do the others yet). We haven't had occasion to see her with cats or kids, but she loves making new people-friends and she's good with other dogs both large and small. If anything, she's over-eager to play. She's highly food motivated. She walks well on a leash on most days (she responds a lot better to certain handlers). She'll sit and shake, but hasn't yet learned down or stay. She loves rope toys, and occasionally plush toys or balls, but her absolute favorite is chasing the water out of the hose in the back yard. She likes to spend quality time sleeping on the couch while I sit next to her, but she doesn't insist on sitting on my lap like the other dogs do. She has what I believe to be a spaying scar, but I can't confirm it.

We're currently renting an apartment in Austin while still paying rent in California because I just couldn't take her to the pound. We can only do this through June, though. Please share. <3

She jumped into the trunk while I was bringing in groceries one day.

This is her bath day smile.