Soon after the horrible incident of the little girl and the family dog, Yuval met Vered Shapira, who in those days was an animal activiest and also rescuing dogs.

Yuval met Vered Shapira on the street, while she was walking her huge and scary, fierce looking Pitbull, and the two became friends.

She asked Yuval if he could provide a temporary home for one single homeless dog. Yuval, without thinking twice, said yes, not knowing that his life was about to change; the next day Vered brought him Puma, a fighting dog from Yafo, and two weeks later there were already some forty dogs on the rooftop  terrace. Yuval built doghouses made of scraps that he found and the terrace turned into the first rehabilitation sanctuary for the rescued dangerous dogs.

Since then, Yuval himself started rescuing fighting dogs, implementing skills he acquired as an undercover policeman; he started gathering intelligence for locating dogfight sites in Yafo and in villages in the north of Israel. The rescued dogs were gathered by Yuval and housed, healed, rehabilitated and cared for in the makeshift shelters he provided.