"Animal welfare in A full service shelter"

In the story "A full Service Shelter" by Amy Hempel it highlights how human centric spaces often disregard or fail to address the existence and welfare of the dogs that also share these spaces in New York City. We can see this at the very begining of the sotry as the narrator reveals that "there was no such thing as enough at the animal shelter in Spanish Harlem that was run by the city, which kept cutting funds" (Hempel 17). The city and it's administrators are not concerned for the wellbeing of these dogs at the shelter, instead actively providing the ressources and funding to provide more…