In “A Full-Service Shelter,” Amy Hempel explores animal welfare by showing how shelter dogs depend on humans to recognize the value of their lives. The narrator develops this idea by not presenting the dogs simply as animals being kept in a shelter. Instead, she pays attention to them individually and shows how much care the volunteers give them. This creates a strong human-animal connection and encourages readers to consider whether animals deserve greater protection and consideration. Hempel shows how the volunteers try to comfort the dogs when the narrator explains that they “brought them…