Dogs are not people they can not be murdered.
You can call it murder when its your dog, and considered a family member.
Dogs are not people they can not be murdered.
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That’s your takeaway from this story? Really?
I guess if we’re gonna split hairs, a dog cannot be a victim of homicide (root of the word is man), but I fail to see that the word murder must, by definition, apply only to humans.
Methinks you have mammothly missed the point. Or can I not use the word mammothly because no mammoths were involved.
I have an old book on the winning of the American west.
A photo of two buffalo hunters standing over a slain buffalo are referred to as “the murderers”.