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n. kidnapping or stealing of a dog owned by someone else.
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Dognapping is the crime of taking a dog from its owner with the intention of demanding a ransom. The word is derived from the term kidnapping.
Historically in the United States, dogs had been stolen and sold on for medical research, but the introduction of the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 reduced these occurrences. The profit available to dognappers varies based upon the value of the dog or the amount that its original owners are willing to pay as ransom. Dog organizations recommend the microchipping of dogs in order to facilitate an animal's return to its rightful owners.
Usage examples of "dognapping".
Eventually he pleaded guilty to vandalism and, I guess, dognapping, although he agreed to pay for the Labradors and a new set of Winnebago tires.
I made ten grand dognapping a stolen Labrador retriever from a bunch of Japanese bird hunters in Alberta.
Chablis, the whole dognapping business was a finger in the dike, at best.
Dahlia House from the auction block, and it was dognapping Chablis that eventually led Tinkie to hire me for my first case.
Once he determined they were tourist goobs, not ecoterrorists or dognapping extortionists, he endeavored to terminate the conversation and clear out.
While she could take no blame for the freakish hunting mishap, it was also indisputable that the doomed rhino expedition had been precipitated by the dognapping crisisand that the dognapping had been complicated by Desie's attraction to, and abetment of, Twilly Spree.
While she could take no blame for the freakish hunting mishap, it was also indisputable that the doomed rhino expedition had been precipitated by the dognapping crisis—and that the dognapping had been complicated by Desie's attraction to, and abetment of, Twilly Spree.
It meant that Palmer Stoat (turd fondler though he was) was telling the truth about the dognapping.