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": "assistant", "content": "I would love to volunteer at an animal shelter where stray, lost and abandoned dogs and cats are kept until they are rehabilitated or adopted."}, {"role": "user", "content": "that's very cool and admirable, I have contemplated doing the same."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I could only work at a no kill shelter because I could not handle the euthanizing of healthy animals because they were claimed."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes I don't think I would be able to either there are so many animals that need our help"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A true no-kill shelter does not kill healthy or treatable animals even if the shelter is full. They only euthanize terminally ill animals or those that are dangerous."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is very good, are there a lot of them in the US?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't know the number of no-kill shelters but I know that at least 90% of the animals that come into the shelter are usually saved."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow that is a very big number I was not expecting it to be that high!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! They use many strategies to promote shelter animals with volunteers, housing, and medical protocols. They are working to lower the number of homeless animals entering the system."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's good, people abuse animals so much that this is doing some good in the world."}]