dog-napper

plural dog-nappers

1. alternativeAlternative form of dognapper.

   I still feel that the dog-napper should have to pay me for my loss or serve some time for his actions.

   2018, James R. Black, What I Wish I Had Learned in Seminary

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   Whether true or not, this kind of plea may heighten the public's compassion and dampen the potential dog-napper's notion of a big-money reward for your beloved "expensive" purebred dog.

   1998, Nona Kilgore Bauer, Traveling with Dogs, page 11

   Hell, by this time, the dog-napper could have caught a plane to the north of Australia and be rounding up kangaroos to slaughter for fun along the Dingo-proof and may never be found.

   2012, June Whyte, Muzzled