i volunteer with dogs.
[{"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": "Our animal shelter has many volunteers to take care of the animals that are stray lost or abandoned.  I am proud to be one of them"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is good of you! Is it a no-kill shelter?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Its an adoption shelter, although some of the animals do get sick and euthanizing is sometime a polity on such animals"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree, it is immoral to force a suffering animal to live. I wish the same applied to humans as well."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Back in the day, we just called a shelter a 'dog pound', however current times call it an 'animal shelter' "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I prefer the latter. Dog pound sounds very inhumane!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I was not aware that even some shelters have sick tropical animals they take in."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Neither was I! Where do these animals come from I wonder."}]