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- nonce worduncountableThe killing of a dog.
So he got a pistol and shot the dog. The court held he had no right to do it. A clear case of caninicide!
1921 August 27, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 194, number 9, page 452 more examples
The last canine to be hurried to an untimely end was "Prince," the especial pet of the Bones family, and Prince's death proved to be the last straw. As he could not be connected with the chicken-killing, the taking-off of poor Prince was deemed to be unjustifiable caninicide, and Gager will have to take his medicine today for shooting the poor beast.
1895 November 19, Los Angeles Times, page 8Bong Joon-ho's Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) isn't exactly horror - unless you're a dog. A brilliant black comedy about a henpecked husband driven to caninicide, it features several eye-popping scenes of animal cruelty that belie the opening credit claiming no living creatures were injured during the making of the film.
2003, Art Black, “Coming of age: the South Korean horror film”, in Steven Jay Schneider, editor, Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across The Globe, Godalming: FAB Press, →ISBN, page 184
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