vulpecide

Noun

vulpicide (countable and uncountable, plural vulpicides)

1. (countable) Someone who kills foxes other than by hunting them with hounds.
   • Some of the foxes found dead on railway lines, by the way, have been put there after death by vulpicides.1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book
2. The killing of a fox.
   • […]he who brought in the head of a wolf or a fox was entitled to a reward, for the crime of vulpicide, so justly odious in the nineteenth century, was actually encouraged in the dark ages!1846 July, The Foreign Quarterly Review, number 74