i volunteer at animal shelters.
[{"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've spent the last 12 years volunteering at a local animal shelter."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really that's crazy so have I."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Awesome! The humane society now targets these five major issues factory farming, animal fighting, fur trade, puppy mills."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes my local one is hiring, what do you think I should do there? They are at capacity at the moment."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think should help clean out the kennels. Just do whatever you are comfortable with doing. Interesting fact there are ten thousand puppy mills in the us."}, {"role": "user", "content": "There's that many? I heard Petsmart has contributed to puppy mills so I try to boycott them."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I heard that too, that's a shame."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is. How can we best combat puppy mills?"}]