[thegagline]

[Hot Tabasco]

“She was already unlikely to be picked as VP, but had a shot,”

Then why even write this crap article other than to trash Noem?

FWIW, I have a shot too. Just don't tell anyone that I shoot starlings with pellet rifles.

[grateful]

Wire-haired pointers are generally easy to train. They have a high prey drive so it's essential to train them young. Her story doesn't exactly convince me. It was a PUPPY. If it was that out of control as a puppy, it leads me to believe she didn't put enough effort into 1) training and 2) not putting it into situations where it could/would cause trouble, especially after the first "incident". Did she make an effort to re-home it some place without other livestock? Did she reach out to a professional trainer? So many questions...

Our landscapers had a wire-haired pointer puppy younger than Noem's that they were raising as a hunting dog. Very well trained. Sweet dog, not a problem at all. I know they all have different personalities, but I think in general, you get out of a puppy what you put into it for the most part.

That said, there are acceptable times when animals need to put down. When my dad was young, he lived out in the country. He had to shoot his beloved German Shepherd because it had contracted rabies, was foaming at the mouth, and was chasing my uncle trying to kill him.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Dead puppies aren’t much fun.

[rhinohunter]

I’m glad she’s demonstrating how politically tone-deaf she is now before it’s too late.

Although I thought she had already done so when she vetoed that tranny bill.

[rfp1234]

Many of the libtards and RINOs attacking Noem for this are likely supporters of feticide.

[jz638]

She supposedly wrote it in a book herself, and then went through the publishing process.

Much more likely, a ghostwriter got her spun up telling stories and put it in the book and fed her ego enough to make her think it looked good in the draft, and then her staff either ignored the proof copy or were too filled with sycophants to flag the passage and get it removed before publication.

She is smart enough to own the story instead of admit that she didn’t write or read her own books, and she at least has the integrity to not throw a staffer under the bus publicly.

All that said, what “should” have happened to the dog? Take it to a shelter where it sits around for a year or so before the shelter puts it down? Adopt it out to another family where it could bite someone’s kids? Yes, it’s dumb to tell this story in this book, but it likely was the most responsible option out of a selection of bad options.

[Freest Republican]

This is incomplete. The opotics are bad but they’re far worse out of focus.

They can’t call her the next Hitler, “puppy killer” fits in.

80% of the hate crimes are hoaxes

at least 80% of the Guardian material is misleading.

It’s weird but not really.....

[Political Junkie Too]

Has anybody seen Biden's dog Major recently?

-PJ

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

🚨 🚨

My source tells me that the VP is Ben Carson

He also told me that Byron Donald’s was a close second

Also that Desantis will be part of the future government but I don’t know at what capacity

🚨🚨

[Karliner]

Most of us kill animals every single day but it’s all wrapped in plastic at the store.

If Noem was pro choice they’d vote for her?

[CommerceComet]

I would question her wisdom about retelling these stories. On most farms, animals are not kept as pets. When they're usefulness is over, so is the animal.

Fourteen months is not a puppy. I had a friend who was an avid upland bird hunter and no dog got a free home with him for they were working dogs. It hunted to his satisfaction or it would make a hunting trip from which it did not return.

[nitzy]

This is the first that I am hearing all of these details.

The story I heard was that she killed it because it wasn’t a good hunting do and ruined a hunt.

I thought she sounded like a heartless bitch.

I didn’t hear that it killed a bunch of her chickens and tried to bite her. I might have done the same thing.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sounds like the only hope she has now is to have an abortion.

[Organic Panic]

One vicious dog killed and it’s a national travesty.

Millions of babies slaughtered. No biggie.

[ChuckHam]

Good.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Doubtful she ever had a shot anyway.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She killed a dog that killed livestock (chickens).

Farmers do it all the time.

If you live near a cattle farm, don’t let your dogs trespass onto it.

[ducttape45]

Who cares! She wasn’t going to be the VP pick anyway.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I shot a dog that bit my daughter .
Anything less is cowardice .

[FLT-bird]

Of course not. In addition to rumors of her having an affair, there is this. She releases a story about herself shooting her 14 month old dog. uhh....how could you not realize that does not look good.

To those who want to argue that’s how its done in the country and blah blah blah....fine but you should know better than to come out with a story like that about yourself. A LOT of people are going to be really turned off by that. How is it that as a politician you don’t know that? That was just colossally bad judgment to put in a book about yourself.