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": "user", "content": "I volunteer at the animal shelter and help with dogs which is my passion."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Animal shelters need the most help. They have all the strays and needy animals such as the sick so that's admirable."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's true and stray dogs can be the most friendly and loyal dogs too, they need to find people who are going to take care of them."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah people need to realize there is a huge overpopulation problem, and 6 to 8 million animals are taken to shelters each year in the US."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know, that's such a big problem. Animal shelters do their best but there is only so much that can be done to save these animals."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah and truthfully the Humane Society does a great job you know? It was founded by Fred Myers and they've just done a great job."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yes Humane Society is amazing, I've heard of them. Do you know anything more about them?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah it was the 136th largest charity in the US can you believe that!!!!"}]