Reader's Digest ３・４月合併号の記事 "Operation: Find Avery " からの引用です。
Witherspoon's case of a missing pet turned into something sinister when, 24 hours after the dognapping, her cellphone buzzed. In menacing texts laced with profanity and misspellings, someone claimed to have Avery and sent a video of the pup in a cage. The conversation was punctuated with a threat to kill the dog and a demand for ransom: "Y'all not getting y'all dog back Y'all paying 1200 no funny's!!'
犬の誘拐事件ですね。 "dognap" を辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: To dognap a dog is to steal it, usually to get money from its owner in exchange for its return.: The two terriers were dognapped from their owner's car.
・Webster's New World: To steal (a dog), esp. in order to sell it to a medical research laboratory
語源はAmerican Heritage DictionaryにDOG + (KID)NAP. とありました。 "kidnap" から来たのですね。
ところで "catnap" は猫を誘拐することにはなりませんね。
Witherspoon's case of a missing pet turned into something sinister when, 24 hours after the dognapping, her cellphone buzzed. In menacing texts laced with profanity and misspellings, someone claimed to have Avery and sent a video of the pup in a cage. The conversation was punctuated with a threat to kill the dog and a demand for ransom: "Y'all not getting y'all dog back Y'all paying 1200 no funny's!!'
犬の誘拐事件ですね。 "dognap" を辞書で確認します。
・Collins Dictionary: To dognap a dog is to steal it, usually to get money from its owner in exchange for its return.: The two terriers were dognapped from their owner's car.
・Webster's New World: To steal (a dog), esp. in order to sell it to a medical research laboratory
語源はAmerican Heritage DictionaryにDOG + (KID)NAP. とありました。 "kidnap" から来たのですね。
ところで "catnap" は猫を誘拐することにはなりませんね。
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