Human-Animal Relations in "A Full-Service Shelter" by Amy Hempel

When reading the story “A Full-Service Shelter’’ written by Amy Hempel, we as the readers get to see the concept of human- animal relations and how animals are treated as best as they can be before being put down. One example that shows good human-animal relations within the story can be found within this quote on the character’s view of the dogs. “They knew me as the one who saw their souls in their faces, who had never seen eyes more expressive than theirs in colors of clover honey, root beer, riverbed, and tricolor (cracked glass) eyes of a Catahoula, rare to find up north” (Hempel 30)…