Things to do with dogs
My character is trying to convince his girlfriend to let him keep his new puppy in their apartment. She opposes fiercely, because she doesn't like dogs and feels her space would be invaded. They have an argument, which ends with her saying:
There will be no further __[word pertaining to dogs]__ in this house.
My question is what word would mean "anything/everything dog related"? It would be nice if there was a word ending in "ry". I could invent one, like "mongrelry", but I wonder if there aren't better alternatives.
Having thought of canininity, I found that OED does actually contain a similar word:
caninity noun
From Latin canīnus, after humanity.
Canine quality or trait; dog nature or race.
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. ix. 131 A lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity.
Sympathy with dogs, kindness to dogs.
1886 Sat. Rev. 27 Feb. 289/1 The humanity of the wire muzzle, or rather its enlightened caninity.
"Sympathy with dogs" seems to fit the bill — "There will be no further caninity in this house!"
Dogginess: the quality or characteristic of being doggy
Source: Collins Dictionary
Let's go from Latin to Greek.
No cynoids or cynoid creatures
The suffix -oid refers to the object's shape or form. So an ovoid is egg-shaped. Well, people will insist on mixing Latin and Greek in the same word, and ovum is definitely Latin. Strictly, It should be oyyoid, to be Greek and oviform to be purely Latin-derived, but never mind that. We can't fight usage. The point is that the ending oid is regularly used in a derogatory sense. So if I refer to someone as a humanoid, it will be understood as contemptuous: perhaps human in appearance only.
Cynoid has the further objection that cyn has already been bagged by people wanting to accuse others of cynicism, a quit different defect, unknown in relation to any dogs I know.
You could go ahead and mix Latin and Greek and use canoid (pronouncing the first syllable to rhyme with the brother of Abel). That may have the better of both worlds: to be understood and to be insulting.
Consider:
There will be no further barking in this house.
This sort-of works on a literal level:
Lexico:
Utter (a command or question) abruptly or aggressively.
‘he began barking out his orders’American Heritage Dictionary:
To speak sharply; snap: "a spot where you can just drop in ... without anyone's barking at you for failing to plan ahead" (Andy Birsh).
but the kicker is the double entendre: “bark” is also the word commonly used to describe the sound made by a dog.
But, with all due respect to the answer with 10 votes, there doesn’t seem to be any good single word. So consider:
There will be no further barking up that tree in this house.
which is a reference to the idiom “barking up the wrong tree”, which can mean pursuing a futile course of action:
The Free Dictionary:
To attempt or pursue a futile course of action, often by making some kind of suggestion or request.
theidioms.com:
waste one's efforts by pursuing the wrong thing or path
(while still retaining the dog relevance).