Basic Trope: In fiction, animal shelters are jails for animals.
- Straight: Goodfur Shelter is a prison for stray animals.
- Exaggerated:
- Goodfur Shelter is a maximum-security prison for animals, complete with armed guards, contraband detectors, cameras and alarms.
- Bloodpaw Shelter is less of a prison and more of a concentration camp for animals.
- Downplayed: Goodfur Shelter is seen as a hotel, except all the exit doors are jammed.
- Justified: Animal shelters are made to teach disobedient animals a lesson for roaming around the streets.
- Inverted:
- Animals are pound prisons. note
- Goodfur Shelter encourages animals to leave it, yet they stay because they like it.
- Goodskin Prison is a human prison that works like an animal shelter.
- Subverted: Goodfur Shelter is said to be a prison, but turns out to be a regular shelter with good care.
- Double Subverted:
- ...until the bars drop, and the shelter is quarantined.
- Animals are sent to real prisons without the pet owners' consent or knowledge.
- Parodied:
- It's a parody of city crime shows where animals do things like raiding containers, killing critters and run on the streets, animal catchers are the police, and pounds are... you know the rest.
- Fantasy animals like dragons and unicorns are sent to animal shelters.
- Averted:
- Goodfur Shelter is just your average shelter that's nothing like a prison, and so is every shelter.
- There are no shelters where there's animals.
- Misbehaving animals end up in an open forest.
- Enforced:
- People knowing nothing about animal shelter want to include them as a plot point in their story.
- Goodfur Shelter is meant to teach the audience about real life criminally negligent 'shelters' (and how to report them to the ASPCA and authorities).
- The author will not stoop to Politically Correct History when he writes about 19th century pounds.
- Lampshaded: "Welcome to the pound, where you have to hold your soap tight."
- Invoked: People build shelters to contain tagless pets.
- Exploited: Carlos tricks the neighbor's pitbull terrier into ending up in an animal shelter.
- Defied: Emperor Bad kidnaps Mary Sue and forces her to give up all her nicenesses.
- Discussed: "I hope my Fido doesn't end up in an animal shelter."
- Conversed: (from an employee at an animal shelter): "This isn't what shelters are like!"
- Implied: Some animal catchers call themselves the police and even arrest the animals as they are sent to some place.
- Deconstructed:
- People start to associate shelters in general with prisons.
- Animal rights groups advocate against animal shelters.
- Reconstructed:
- ...but people see clearly that only animal shelters are prisons; human shelters are fine.
- ...only for them to see how animal shelters keep animals safe, as prisons provide retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation.
- Played for Laughs: A lot of prison humor happens at Goodfur Shelter.
- Played for Drama: Bob the dog longs for seeings his family once again.
- Played for Horror:
- Goodfur Shelter sends animals to meat factories.
- Authorities at Goodfur begin to imprison the human inhabitants at well, sending them to the same meat facilities
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