Noem decided to shoot Cricket after the dog killed a local family’s chickens after a pheasant hunting trip and then bit her when she tried to intervene. Noem said she “hated that dog” and deemed it “less than worthless” for being unable to hunt properly.
After taking the dog to a gravel pit and shooting it, she also shot a goat she owned, which she said stunk and was “nasty and mean.”
Later on, her daughter arrived home and asked where Cricket was.
“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
My brother had to put a problematic dog down, and he just lied to the kids: "...We gave him to a couple who live on a farm...he gets to run around all day..."