vulpicide /ˈvʌlpɪsaɪd/ noun2 •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 •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 formsvulpicides