Wild dog daughter shot protecting home (5)
I believe the answer is:
dingo
'wild dog' is the definition.
(dingo is a kind of wild dog)
'daughter shot protecting home' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'shot' becomes 'go' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'protecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'd'+'go'='dgo'
'dgo' going around 'in' is 'DINGO'.
(Other definitions for dingo that I've seen before include "Wild animal" , "Wild Australian dog" , "Kipling's yellow dog" , "Yellow Australian dog" , "Scavenger" .)