I have a friend who started an animal shelter.
Do they have a no kill policy? Except for sick animals of course.
I don't even think she kills sick ones.  Gets vet donations to help them.  She mostly has dogs and cats, but I think a couple mules too.
Well it would be inhumane to not kill sick animals that have no chance of recovery... Even in no-kill animal shelters they push for 90% recovery rate to be adopted out.
I will have to ask her, because I'm not really sure.  I do know she has lots of people to adopt animals from her.
The history of the "pound" is way back in the days when stray livestock would get out. They penned them until their owner came to claim them.
Back then, I bet everyone knew who the owner was, too.  Now, so many people have pets, and dump pets, it's harder to know.
Poundmaster
A poundmaster or poundkeeper was a local government official responsible for the feeding and care of stray livestock such as domestic pigs, cattle, horses, sheep, and geese. This was common in colonial America and continued into the 19th century.
Unlike today, the control of stray companion animals (cats and dogs) was not the duty of the poundmaster.
Duties and function.
The poundmaster was tasked with impounding livestock that were loose in a city, town, or village. Wayward animals were brought to
Animal shelter
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize sick animals, and any animal that is not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of 30 countries included in a survey, all but four (Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Italy) permitted the killing of healthy stray