I'd like to adopt a dog sometime soon.  Possibly from a shelter.
That's a great idea. Critics say the new term, animal shelter, replaced the word pound.
Oh yes, the ol' pound.  Reminds me of the 90's for some reason.
I prefer no kill shelters that only euthanize terminally ill animals or too dangerous for public safety
I agree completely.  It would be a great thing if one day enough people adopted pets and the shelters needed to close or at least reduce in size.
still be considered a no-kill shelter.
Definition.
A no-kill or limited admit shelter is a shelter that saves healthy, treatable and rehabilitatable animals. As a benchmark, at least 90% of the animals entering the shelter are expected to be saved. The save rate must be based on all animals entering the shelter: "It does not matter if the animals are old, blind, deaf, missing limbs, or traumatized. All of these animals are worthy of our compassion, all of them
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