Adding a dictionary to another [duplicate]

foreach(var newAnimal in NewAnimals)
    Animals.Add(newAnimal.Key,newAnimal.Value)

Note: this throws an exception on a duplicate key.

Or if you really want to go the extension method route(I wouldn't), then you could define a general AddRange extension method that works on any ICollection<T>, and not just on Dictionary<TKey,TValue>.

public static void AddRange<T>(this ICollection<T> target, IEnumerable<T> source)
{
    if(target==null)
      throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(target));
    if(source==null)
      throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(source));
    foreach(var element in source)
        target.Add(element);
}

(throws on duplicate keys for dictionaries)

Create an Extension Method most likely you will want to use this more than once and this prevents duplicate code.

Implementation:

 public static void AddRange<T, S>(this Dictionary<T, S> source, Dictionary<T, S> collection)
 {
        if (collection == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("Collection is null");
        }

        foreach (var item in collection)
        {
            if(!source.ContainsKey(item.Key)){ 
               source.Add(item.Key, item.Value);
            }
            else
            {
               // handle duplicate key issue here
            }  
        } 
 }

Usage:

Dictionary<string,string> animals = new Dictionary<string,string>();
Dictionary<string,string> newanimals = new Dictionary<string,string>();

animals.AddRange(newanimals);