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.
The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. - Locke.
Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. - Dryden. v. t. 1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
[imp. & p. p. Murdered (mûr"dẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.]
2. To destroy; to put an end to. [Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word? - Shak.
3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.