history: I currently volunteer at an Animal Shelter during my free time.
knowledge: Critics believe the new term ''animal shelter'' is generally a euphemism for the older term ''pound''.
response: Interesting, what do you think of the notion that "animal shelter" has become a euphemism for "pound"?
history: I currently volunteer at an Animal Shelter during my free time.
Interesting, what do you think of the notion that "animal shelter" has become a euphemism for "pound"?
Well, it definitely sounds better.
knowledge: 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.
response: I believe the phrase was coined when animals or stray livestock would have to be penned or ''impounded'' until claimed by whoever owned them.
history: I currently volunteer at an Animal Shelter during my free time.
Interesting, what do you think of the notion that "animal shelter" has become a euphemism for "pound"?
Well, it definitely sounds better.
I believe the phrase was coined when animals or stray livestock would have to be penned or ''impounded'' until claimed by whoever owned them.
That makes sense. When did animal shelters come to exist?
knowledge: The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), based in Washington, D.C., is an American nonprofit organization founded by journalist Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser in 1954, to address what they saw as animal-related cruelties of national scope, and to resolve animal welfare problems by applying strategies beyond the resources or abilities of local organizations.
response: I'm not sure, but I know that The Human Society has been around since 1954.
history: I currently volunteer at an Animal Shelter during my free time.
Interesting, what do you think of the notion that "animal shelter" has become a euphemism for "pound"?
Well, it definitely sounds better.
I believe the phrase was coined when animals or stray livestock would have to be penned or ''impounded'' until claimed by whoever owned them.
That makes sense. When did animal shelters come to exist?
I'm not sure, but I know that The Human Society has been around since 1954.
The Humane Society is such a good cause. Do you know who started it?
knowledge: The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), based in Washington, D.C., is an American nonprofit organization founded by journalist Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser in 1954, to address what they saw as animal-related cruelties of national scope, and to resolve animal welfare problems by applying strategies beyond the resources or abilities of local organizations.
response: Fred Myers, Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser all helped to found the Humane Society.