i volunteer at an animal shelter.
[{"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": "Hi, I used to work at an animal shelter back in college."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Did they rescue mostly cats and dogs, or were there every any wildlife there as well?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Mostly cats and dogs. Have you heard of no-kill shelters?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "We have a no-kill shelter in our town, of course they still have to euthanize some sick animals."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is terrible. Such shelters should not exist! "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In the US there is no government run organization that provides oversight of the shelters."}, {"role": "user", "content": "We should pressure the government into providing protection for this."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, in some cases, the individual states do regulate shelters within their jurisdiction."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, well at least thats something. Its important that there should be some regulation of shelters!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There is a measure that is pretty comprehensive called the Georgia Animal Protection Act of 1986"}]