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": "People use animal shelters for many services, sometimes dropping off an animal they can no longer keep or to search for their new family pet."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I know it's so sad! I love animals of all kinds.  Do you have any animals?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have a dog which was the first species to be domesticated and has been bred for centuries for various reasons."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats interesting.  I had always thought it was cats, because of the egyptians."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Isn't it? The first recorded dog remains buried near a human is 14,700 years old."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh ok!  I didn't know that.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes! And the closest living relative to the dog is the gray wolf. That's it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ok. Aren't wolves endangered?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The red wolf is in the top five most endangered species of the world."}, {"role": "user", "content": "where is the red wolf located? in the states?"}]