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": "It's so important to adopt a pet from the animal shelter"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Those lost and abandoned animals deserve a chance at having a good life."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree. My cat was adopted from an animal shelter and she's the sweetest thing."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I only support \"no-kill\" shelters because they would never harm a healthy animal."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Me too. All the shelters in my county are no-kill. Have you ever adopted from an animal shelter?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! I have three dogs that have all been adopted from \"no-kill'' shelters."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's great! Animal shelters are such a sad place to visit. Feels good to take a pet out of there."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes it does feel good to help an animal.I just wish more people would get their pets fixed so we wouldnt have such and overpopulation problem,"}]