The ritual slaying of a dog — when it is not likened to an act of witchcraft or a murder, and prohibited — has a special place in sacrificial systems. In Africa, dogs are sometimes sacrificed during the funerals of warriors or hunters, or following a breach of prohibitions, or by major initiation or hunting societies. Far from limiting it to exceptional situations, the Minyanka frequently observe this form of sacrifice in quite diverse circumstances (births, marriages, initiation, funerals, etc.) and for various supernatural powers (lineage ancestors, spirits of the wild, etc.). The victim of the sacrifice performed by the eldest son during his father’s funeral is a dog, which is treated like a casualty of war. How is this slaying related to the “territory” to be found for the deceased in the land of the ancestors? How to understand that a rite of separation between two generations implies the sacrificial death of an animal so close to mankind?