Through the use of repetition, “A Full-Service Shelter” by Amy Hempel demonstrates how, in a human-centric society, efforts to prioritize the rights of dogs are futile. The repeated instances in which euthanasia of the shelter dogs is mentioned helps to portray the species’ status in the short story’s society. The mention of “the stack of bodies” (Hempel 32) and of different dogs falling on “that morning’s list” (Hempel 28) destined to be euthanized, shows just how easily society disregards the lives of this species. They are seen to have such little value to the point that they do not even…