vulpicide

“In Leicestershire he would be regarded as a hunting man, while in his own district he is known as a vulpicide, for Reynard is seldom, if ever, found in his coverts.”

The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.

“In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"!”

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

“On the way home the Padre shot a fox – that is, he says, he "committed vulpicide.”

Janey Canuck in the West

“As the vulpicide, on the afternoon of the day of the deed, went along the corridor to his room, one maid-servant whispered to another, and the poor victim of an imperfect sight heard the words -- "That's he as shot the fox!”

Phineas Redux

“Did you say vulpicide?" she asks, with a sweet smile.”

Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)

“The farmers, to the anger of conservationists, say that sea eagles have been targeting their lambs and destroying their already meagre income. fox hunting gentlemen persuaded farmers not to commit vulpicide by establishing a "poultry fund" whereby non-hunting farmers were compensated for livestock taken by foxes.”

British Blogs

“As the vulpicide, on the afternoon of the day of the deed, went along the corridor to his room, one maid-servant whispered to another, and the poor victim of an imperfect sight heard the words — “That’s he as shot the fox!””

Phineas Redux

“Imagine the feelings of an English squire, M.H. of his county, loving dogs and horses as some women love children, and regarding poaching and vulpicide as crimes almost as bad as murder -- imagine his feelings when his beautiful wife, grave and simple, should say at a hunt-dinner, "I do not like riding.”

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876

“You behold, madam, in that young man the moral effects of vulpicide.”

Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)