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": "assistant", "content": "I wish I had more time to volunteer at an animal shelter where lost, stray and abandoned animals are kept while rehabilitated. I adopted two rescue cats five years ago. Do you have any pets?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "We have three, all rescues.  I would want to take all of them home."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Me too! I could only work at a no-kill shelter though as their policy is to only euthanize sick animals. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "We only have a no-kill shelter in our town - my children have volunteered there a few times."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's awesome! No kill shelters use many strategies to promote shelter animals by expanding their resources using volunteers, housing and medicine and to work to reduce the number of animals entering the shelter system. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ours has a lot of volunteers and they do an amazing job of finding good homes and rescues for all the animals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! At least 90% of shelter animals are usually saved! What a worthy cause!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It really is - and we wouldn't have our three without their great attention to their care."}]