i am gong to adopt a dog very soon.
[{"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'd like to adopt a dog sometime soon.  Possibly from a shelter."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's a great idea. Critics say the new term, animal shelter, replaced the word pound."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yes, the ol' pound.  Reminds me of the 90's for some reason."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I prefer no kill shelters that only euthanize terminally ill animals or too dangerous for public safety"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree completely.  It would be a great thing if one day enough people adopted pets and the shelters needed to close or at least reduce in size."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "At least 90% of the animals entering shelters are usually saved in no kill shelters."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's a nice stat to know.  Sounds like we are progressing towards what I was just saying.  Always a good sign."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, human societies now urge people to have animals spayed or neutered to prevent unwanted litters."}]