They Called Her Dangerous and Wanted Her Gone. At 2 A.M. in a Burning House, She Was the Only One Who Knew Where the Baby Was.

Synopsis

We named her that because my wife is half Israeli and it means something close to “beautiful” — and because when we got her, at eight weeks old, from a backyard in Oildale where she was the only puppy left in a litter that had been advertised on a feed store bulletin board, she did not look beautiful. She looked like a fawn-colored potato with ears too big…