Daily Diary, April 19, 2023 Day 960: When I first started to see what I could find on the subject of people stealing dogs for profit, it looked like this was a very 20th not 19th century problem, with several articles saying that the term wasn’t even used until the late 1920s. However, in the following article, the writer researched newspapers and found the first mention of the term dognappers showing up in an Oregon newspaper in 1897 and then found it began to come up more frequently in newspapers in the early 1900s.
Historical Tidbits: Dognapping
Wow, very interesting! I enjoyed reading that