Years after adopting Sharav, when we were living in San Francisco, I found out how difficult it was to adopt a dog from an American shelter: they did home visits, interviewed references, required a backyard, mandated certain medical procedures, prevented puppies from being adopted into homes where all the adults worked full time.
If I hadn’t lived in Israel, I guess that I wouldn’t have been able to adopt a dog at all.
Our first day in San Francisco, August 2011. Click any photo to see more.