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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I grew up on a farm. We killed dogs, sheep, hogs, chickens, cattle; as needed to put them out of misery. Was it hard sometimes? Yes.
I am not a hunter, my husband is. I have two hunting labs. I know about soft mouth. I do know my dogs did not naturally learn how to hunt and be obedient .We sent our dogs to a three month hunting boarding facility to learn how to hunt. They were stupid puppies before that ( and one of them still is) in which they put everything into their mouths. Dead birds, rocks, geese shit. It’s no surprise to me an untrained dog would go after a chicken. They have a strong prey drive, thats why they are used for hunting.To think shooting a dog is acceptable after the dog killed some chickens (when there were other options )is reprehensible. What is even worse is bragging about it in a book, does she think we are going to think, wow, what a woman! She is a strong no nonsense woman that we can trust to be VP.! Nope, she showed us that she is easily angered, lacks impulse control , and basically is heartless. Do I want her as VP, if Trump dies her finger is on the nuke button.No. Do I want her in a cabinet position? No, the Dems will salivate interrogating her about killing her dog.What Kristi is good at, is cheating on her husband. She can keep doing that and stay at her farm screwing people other than her husband.
If her support is about 50-50 on FR, then its going to be about 98-2 against, in the above ground world.
Do you idiots really need to keep spouting the same lies over and over again? We've been over that a dozen times.
Stop it with the democrat tactics.
DeSantis cannot be VP nor anyone else from Florida.
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