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": "user", "content": "I am so thankful there are animal shelters that take unwanted and stray animals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah animal shelters are great, but its sad what happens to them if noone adopts them"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is true. It is so important to spay and neuter pets so that they don't reproduce."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I try and support local shelters that are no-kill. Makes me feel alot better."}, {"role": "user", "content": "For sure. They really are humane compared to the kill shelters."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We can get to 100 percent of the healthy animals if we use common sense."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's right. We need to all work together to do what is best for the animals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Getting animals rights or a bill of rights just like people is my dream."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think there should be some guaranteed rights like being able to live if they can pass an IQ test."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah IQ tests should be mandatory, you don't want to was finite resources on low quality."}]