On a dusty street in Kabul in the summer of 2016, high-pitched barks alerted a group of teenage Afghan girls to a gang of boys who were tormenting a three-month-old puppy, intent on hanging her. Luckily for the Labrador X collie bitch, the girls intervened. They took the pup to the Nowzad shelter where she was nursed back to health and later put up for adoption.