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 work in an animal shelter where abandoned, lost or stray animals are tended to and rehabbed"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is good work, I salute you for what you do, that helps a lot of animals out!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My shelter is no kill but some shelters euthanize animals that are not claimed or adopted quickly"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is unfortunately necessary but super sad, I could not do that as a job I would cry every day"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Shelters need regulating, in the US there is no national agency to regulate them"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is not cool, I wish we could help out shelters, they play a very important role, that is very sad to me"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "At least some states regulate the shelters within the state but not all states do"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, you would think that is a pretty common sense policy, but I guess there is no such thing"}]