Meanings of shoot the dogs in English

I told you not to shoot the dogs.

Ride up and give him the contents of your double-barrel; only, be careful, and don't shoot the dogs.

Then we'll get our black clothes, and then we'll shoot the dogs and bury 'em, and then we'll have the sacrifice, and then-

Dave, you'd better load up-Berthas plenty of loose buckshot in his pocket-andmind you now, fellows, don't get excited and shoot the dogs.

Parmenter was never going to forgive him for shooting the dogs.

(It is well enough, perhaps, to say that nobody offered to shoot the dogs.)

"I've got to shoot the dogs," Jarvi said.

"Why do they not shoot the dogs?"

Think of the little pagans burning their car and repenting in sackcloth and ashes, not to mention shooting the dogs and living upon penitential fare.

"We must shoot the dogs if they press us too hard," returned the bee-hunter, leading off rapidly, now secure in the right direction.