history: I volunteer at the animal shelter and help with dogs which is my passion.
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: Neat, does your shelter also have the typical cats? And does it take care of the sick or hurt wildlife which are then rehabilitatated?
history: I volunteer at the animal shelter and help with dogs which is my passion.
Neat, does your shelter also have the typical cats? And does it take care of the sick or hurt wildlife which are then rehabilitatated?
Yes but not really wildlife, stray dogs and cats do get taken care of and we help them out. I think out shelter is admirable as we avoid euthanizing as much as possible.
knowledge: In the United States, a 6 to 8 million animals are brought to shelters each year, of which an estimated 3 to 4 million are subsequently euthanized, including 2.7 million considered healthy and adoptable.
response: That's neat, you know that around 3 to 4 million animals are euthanized yearly from the 6 to 8 that are brought to shelters, in the US?
history: I volunteer at the animal shelter and help with dogs which is my passion.
Neat, does your shelter also have the typical cats? And does it take care of the sick or hurt wildlife which are then rehabilitatated?
Yes but not really wildlife, stray dogs and cats do get taken care of and we help them out. I think out shelter is admirable as we avoid euthanizing as much as possible.
That's neat, you know that around 3 to 4 million animals are euthanized yearly from the 6 to 8 that are brought to shelters, in the US?
I know, that's such a big problem. Animal shelters do their best but there is only so much that can be done to save these animals.
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: Yeah, have you heard of the Humane Society of the US or HSUS? They're in Washington D.C. and was founded by Fred Myers, a journalist, and Helen Jones, Marcia Glaser, and Larry Andrews.
history: I volunteer at the animal shelter and help with dogs which is my passion.
Neat, does your shelter also have the typical cats? And does it take care of the sick or hurt wildlife which are then rehabilitatated?
Yes but not really wildlife, stray dogs and cats do get taken care of and we help them out. I think out shelter is admirable as we avoid euthanizing as much as possible.
That's neat, you know that around 3 to 4 million animals are euthanized yearly from the 6 to 8 that are brought to shelters, in the US?
I know, that's such a big problem. Animal shelters do their best but there is only so much that can be done to save these animals.
Yeah, have you heard of the Humane Society of the US or HSUS? They're in Washington D.C. and was founded by Fred Myers, a journalist, and Helen Jones, Marcia Glaser, and Larry Andrews.
Oh yes Humane Society is amazing, I've heard of them. Do you know anything more about them?
knowledge: In 2013, the ''Chronicle of Philanthropy'' identified HSUS as the 136th largest charity in the United States in its Philanthropy 400 listing.
response: Yeah, it was the 136th largest charity in the US, can you believe that?