Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal

the guardian ^ | may 2,024 | Martin Pengelly

[VAFreedom]

Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota whose chance of being Donald Trump’s presidential running mate was widely deemed over after she published a description of shooting dead a dog and a goat, claimed reports of the story were “fake news” but also that the dog in question, Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, was “extremely dangerous” and deserved her fate.

“You know how the fake news works,” Noem told Fox News. “They leave out some or most of the facts of a story, they put the worst spin on it. And that’s what’s happened in this case.

[grateful]

So far, she’s put down a puppy, a goat, and apparently recently put down 3 horses all at once, too.

[clearcarbon]

"Are you in a rural area? No one is going to disown her in farm country over killing a bad dog."

Used to be that in urban areas, there were businesses that specialized in the execution bad dogs so fewer people needed to do it themselves. I don't know how its done these days.