Since reading of this last when it came out, I stand solidly with Kristi Noem and farmers/ranchers on this.
Solidly.
Life on a farm or a ranch does, in my opinion, disabuse a person of sentimentality, since the life and death of animals is right in their faces, so they have to see clearly on it, and I have found, in the ones that I have met, most do.
People who haven’t observed this including some people on this forum, should temper their criticism of her.
What is even far more disturbing to me is the ostensible conservatives who rail about her for killing a dog because it is poor at hunting, taking their cues straight from the MSM which deliberately delivers this kind of character assassination.
Which is, of course, their goal.
Fact is, she killed the dog because it slaughtered livestock, in this case, a bunch of chickens, not to eat them, but for the fun of it.
I know little about Kristi Noem politically except she is an attractive female, is a governor of a state, was possibly being considered as a VP pick, and has a spotty record on slapping down transgender BS, but I couch that last one in my lack of bandwidth to explore further. I fully get she may have killed legislation that would have put some limit on men competing against women, but I understand the possibility she did it for reasons I haven’t considered, so I became somewhat neutral on that. Still waiting.
But I know that in this country, if your dog kills livestock, that should be the end of the dog.
But she compensated the owner, and took care of the dog herself. Right thing to do.
I agree with you
My dad had a dog he trained and trained to herd cows but was only good at attacking them and spreading them out. He was dispatched with the same rifle we used to shoot coyotes. Left him where he fell. Within a few days there wasn’t anything left but a collar.
Well said.