Adopted by choice

The other day after Tel Aviv's first TEDx conference, we attended a pretty happening after- party to hear Asaf Avidan and the Mojo's play a short set. Afterwards, feeling a bit hungry, we went with a few of my friends to the Container, which is an outdoor restaurant/bar situated in the old port of Jaffa. During our dinner we noticed a small dog going from table to table looking for crumbs of affection and prehaps a few hugs and scratches behind the ear. We didn't think much of it, but then after walking my friends out to catch a cab we turned to head up the steps to the artist colony and noticed that the little dog had followed us. Before we could pause, the dog scooted up the steps of old jaffa and at the top sat and waited for us. As we got closer to the top, she took a right turn and scooted up another set of steps leading directly to our door.

Looking at each other we burst into uncontrollable laughter. The dog had decided to plant herself in front of our apartment (where we spend most weekends). We noticed that her paw was injured and despite her inability to walk properly she had still made her way up all the stairs and chosen our apartment. So we opened the door and let her in, giving her some water, people food, and a soft cushion to sit on. She was tick free. Immediately she relaxed and fell asleep.

It seems that she hasn't had a home for a while, but she doesn't seem to have been abused, was clean and very affectionate. I think she decided she needed parents and figured we could give her a good home so she adopted us.

Tommorow we're going to take her to the vet to see if she has an implanted indentity chip and to take care of that paw injury. In the meanwhile, we've named her and made her part of our life.
Yesterday, while I was working, my boyfriend tossed her in my car with a blanket protecting the seats and took her to all of his meetings. She hasn't been alone for a second and is madly in love with him already.