caninophile

canine +‎ -o- +‎ -phile

caninophile (plural caninophiles)

1. Someone who loves dogs.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 930:

     What was the name of her father, the old banker who made love to his dog and wintered in Portugal – a caninophile, gone in the tooth, gone in the wind?

   • 2005, Jeffrey Miller, Murder's Out of Tune, ECW Press:

     Of course Justice Mariner is something of a caninophile himself, never mind that Stong, his idiot golden retriever, is now in Penny Mariner's sole custody and I am actually the loyal companion animal […]

   • 2010, Simon Winchester, ‘Speciality of the House’, A Moveable Feast, Lonely Planet 2010, p. 191:

     I am as much of a caninophile as the next Englishman. I had a beagle at the time, name of Biggles, and I adored him as if he were my own child, almost.