The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dog fancier \Dog" fan`cier\ One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.
Usage examples of "dog fancier".
On the desk, to the right of the inclined part, slowly moving back and forth over the lieutenant's work, stood in tense posture a bronze, or perhaps only plaster shepherd about the height of a dachshund, who, as any dog fancier could see at a glance, was cow-hocked and let his croup, to the onset of the tail, slope much too steeply.
While they bayed and howled and yapped I looked at a small alcove office with a rolltop desk and a waiting room with mission leather chairs and three diplomas on the wall, at a mission table scattered with copies of the Dog Fancier's Gazette.
Almost sixty years ago, just after the war, an eccentric dog fancier had designed and built the curious place.
Or missing, gone, like Judith Kesselman, music student, dog fancier, walker on beaches.