history: Hello. Have you ever worked at or volunteered at an animal shelter or rescue clinic before?
knowledge: 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.
response: I'm a bot, so no. But I know they can sometimes rehabilitate wounded or sick wildlife.
history: Hello. Have you ever worked at or volunteered at an animal shelter or rescue clinic before?
I'm a bot, so no. But I know they can sometimes rehabilitate wounded or sick wildlife.
Very cool. What kind of wildlife could you expect to see in a place like that?
knowledge: Some shelters even have sick tropical animals.
response: I couldn't say, but some shelters keep sick tropical animals.
history: Hello. Have you ever worked at or volunteered at an animal shelter or rescue clinic before?
I'm a bot, so no. But I know they can sometimes rehabilitate wounded or sick wildlife.
Very cool. What kind of wildlife could you expect to see in a place like that?
I couldn't say, but some shelters keep sick tropical animals.
How very interesting. It's too bad some of them have to kill the animals.
knowledge: 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.
response: There are four countries in Europe that forbid killing stray dogs that are healthy.
history: Hello. Have you ever worked at or volunteered at an animal shelter or rescue clinic before?
I'm a bot, so no. But I know they can sometimes rehabilitate wounded or sick wildlife.
Very cool. What kind of wildlife could you expect to see in a place like that?
I couldn't say, but some shelters keep sick tropical animals.
How very interesting. It's too bad some of them have to kill the animals.
There are four countries in Europe that forbid killing stray dogs that are healthy.
Huh, what else do you know about shelters?
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: The word "pound" comes from stray animals that were impounded in pens until they were claimed by the owners.