This was not a pack of wild dogs, it was an excited puppy doing its thing. My lab would do the same. . She just lost out on any future political career. Which shows me she is very stupid. Just her admitting that in her book shows us that she has no common sense.
Agreed. The animals should have been rehomed or humanely euthanized by a veterinarian. If you live out in the wild in Alaska, fine, you have to handle things yourself. Unless the animals were an immediate, attacking threat, she didn’t need to shoot them.
A 14-month old wirehaired pointer is about fully grown; it is not a “puppy” by any stretch of the imagination. And in the countryside, a chicken-killing dog is also a liability.
The media people releasing these excerpts from a book that the public can’t buy until May the 7th know exactly what they’re doing by framing it as her ‘shooting a puppy’; the number of people who’ve begun treating Noem as though she’s an animal torturer one step away from being a serial killer is proof enough that they did their job.
And for those chiding her for including this story in her book: isn’t that the point of a memoir? To show the good, the bad, and the ugly? Must everything be viewed purely through the lens of political advantage?