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": "I recently got a puppy from the animal shelter. Like many animals there, she was a stray."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What kind of puppy was it and it is always a good thing to get a pet from the animal shelter."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "She's a boxer mix. Fortunately, I got her from a no-kill shelter. However, many shelters will euthanize sick animals or animals that are not quickly adopted."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I dislike that. that is really sad to know there is a better chance at just releasing them back out to the wild if you are going to euthanize them."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I agree. Germany, Greece, Italy, and the Czech Republic do not permit the killing of healthy dogs."}, {"role": "user", "content": "They should roll out that same law and make it for the United States will you go back to adopt another puppy from the shelter?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely. The other option is a puppy mill, or commercial dog breeding facility. I would never buy from them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why not the puppy mill do they do bad things to the animals as well?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Typically they will disregard the health of the dogs in order to maximize profits."}, {"role": "user", "content": "The fact that these animals are used for these kind of things is saddening it's good to know so when I decide to adapt me a pet I know where to go and which are the good organizations. "}]