Posted on 04/26/2024 9:28:54 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
....In 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant....By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
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She’s done.
You can kill a human baby but not a dog. Even under “Ol’ Yeller” circumstances.
Did she eat the dog like Obama? Or strap on the roof of the car like Romney?
The Guardian - a worthless leftist rag run be delusional children
Much worse than putting the dog on the roof of a car.
I would have done the same as she did. Dogs that attack other animals and humans without provocation are dangerous.
My father shot a dog that kept going after our chickens...he meant to scare it, but killed it. Turned out it was my 3rd grade teacher’s dog (and I was teachers pet). She fully understood.
She didn’t do it for kicks.
She had tears in her eyes.
Old Yeller went rabid.
She didn’t do it for kicks.
She had tears in her eyes.
Old Yeller went rabid.
Back in the 60s my mother shot an killed a problem neighborhood dog that attacked my sister and me. She used my father’s M1 carbine. Mom was legend.
Obama ate them and mitt dragged one from a car
She put the dog down instead of selling her to Joe Biden?
“When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don’t farm it out — that doesn’t make it nicer, it makes it worse.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Somoene who at least recognizes that dogs without purpose and that kill and attack humans aren’t valuable. Is this supposed to make people question her values?
Gov. Noem is doing a great job in SD... No matter what her trollish detractors refuse to acknowledge.
I like vacationing in SD and I would prefer she stay there rather than take a VP slot.
Heinlein has never been more relevant than to today’s cultural rot...
My father shot and killed a dog after it killed several of his chickens. It was also the neighbor’s dog and it wasn’t thought of as anything but a logical necessity, because, I mean what else was it? People these days don’t make any sense and I say that as a Gen-Xer.
I don’t see how putting down a dangerous dog detracts from Noem’s qualifications.
I don’t know enough about her to judge her qualifications.
She should have started with a puppy. Most issues with animals can be traced to consistent training. My brother has two dogs that are not even paper trained. Train the owner...
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