i visit animal shelters fairly often.
[{"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": "Hey, I work in an animal shelter - do you know anything about animal shelters?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do not know much about it, but those type of shelter carries a lot of species or just dogs?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes we have plenty of species of dogs, most of them are very social and friendly."}, {"role": "user", "content": "and they are free of diseases?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some of the dogs are sick and have some disabilities, but many are healthy and looking for an adoptive family."}, {"role": "user", "content": "it is so nice that they have people looking for them, if I am interested on adopting how I need to pay?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Actually many are able to be adopted without payment! There is just the registration papers, you seem like you would be a good owner."}, {"role": "user", "content": "actually my kids are asking me for one, the rescue dogs have their shot up to date "}]