Plural of dognaper; multiple people who steal or kidnap dogs.
From dognaper + -s (plural marker). A straightforward plural of the modern analogical coinage.
The fact that we needed to create a plural form for 'dognaper' suggests that dog theft was common enough to warrant discussing multiple perpetrators—a sign of how real this crime problem became!
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