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": "There are still some shelters that euthanize sick animals while other are no-kill shelters."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I prefer the no kill . I wish there was a spaying neutering program or programs all over the US actually"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Neutering actually applies to bothe sexes of animals. Most people get that confused."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Did not know that.  Have you ever worked at one before?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I haven't but I would like to. I love caring for animals."}, {"role": "user", "content": "There are about 5000 shelters running nationwide at this time. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yet there is no government-run organization that helps with refulating them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "A lot of the county or state run ones aren't run very well. Animals don't have enough laws protecting them"}]