i visit animal shelters fairly often.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize sick animals, and any animal that is not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of 30 countries included in a survey, all but four (Czech republic, Germany, Greece, and Italy) permitted the killing of healthy stray dogs. Critics believe the new term \"animal shelter\" is generally a euphemism for the older term \"pound\". The word \"pound\" had its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until claimed by their owners. Some shelters even have sick tropical animals. In the United States there is no government-run organization that provides oversight or regulation of the various shelters on a national basis. However, many individual states do regulate shelters within their jurisdiction. One of the earliest comprehensive measures was the \"Georgia Animal Protection Act\" of 1986. The law was enacted in response to the inhumane treatment of companion animals by a pet store chain in Atlanta.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I like to spend time volunteering at animal shelters. There are lots of stray animals there who  need love."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You're right, it's sad that there are so many homeless pets"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, they have to euthanize the animals often because there just isn't room for all of them"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's sad, I wish people would be more responsible"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, it's common all over the world. Most of Europe allows euthanization of health strays"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, it's really an overpopulation issue worldwide"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, in the U.S. there is no government organization with oversight over animal shelters"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see, I didn't know that"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, there are several states with jurisdiction over shelters"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, that makes sense!"}]