i volunteer at animal shelters.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to animals. Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, the organization's mission is \"to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States.\" Following the creation of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the United Kingdom in 1824 (given Royal status in 1840), Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on April 10, 1866 in New York City on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and respectful treatment at the hands of humans, and must be protected under the law. It is the oldest animal welfare organization in the United States. Founded in 1866, the ASPCA was the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. Buffalo's chapter, founded in 1867, is the second oldest. ASPCA was founded to stop the injustices animals face across the United States. On February 8, 1866, Bergh pleaded on behalf of animals at a meeting at Clinton Hall in New York City. Some of the issues he discussed were cockfighting and the horrors of slaughterhouses.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Have you ever hear of the SPCA?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do you mean ASPCA? The non-profit org for animals? I have heard of them!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, thats the one. Have you seem their commercials? They're so sad!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, my niece saw one and couldn't stop crying! The ASPCA does so much to help prevent cruelty to animals. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "They really do, I'm happy they're around to help them."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The ASPCA is an offshoot of a UK organization called the RSPCA! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats cool! I didn't know that/"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in 1824 and the ASPCA was founded in 1866"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, it took us around 40 years to catch up."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know! But it's great that there are these organizations that are focused on preventing animal suffering. "}]