She could have given the Dog away.
I think a lot of the controversy about this is the difference between city people and country people. Dogs are dogs, not people. I have a German Shepherd. She is a great dog and is extremely well taken care of. If she were to ever bite or seriously threaten a person she would not live out the day. That’s just the way it is. And that’s the way Noem thinks. You have a bad dog, killing livestock and acting aggressive, you put it down. You can’t tolerate it, and you can’t put your problem onto someone else.
Somtimes we just can’t, but it’s best if an adult can do the hard things.
Why did she even write this in her book, its one thing of some DNC research came out with this info but she wrote it herself..WHY, what did she think she had to gain by saying this..instead she could have dropped the dog off at a kennel for re homing
In the west, a man forks his own. broncs.
She needs to post s video of her skinning a deer.
That will help her.
I’d like to know how much training time she’d put into the dog. I worked at a sporting clays range where hunters sometimes brought their dogs to get familiar with gunshots (leashed of course). Those folks put a lot of work into training their dogs. I taught one lady wingshooting who trained her pooch constantly. She got good at hitting tricky and fast targets. Finally went on a pheasant hunt, I asked her how she did and she said it was like shooting pinatas, they were so big and slow by comparison.
I have no problem with her killing the dog that was killing the chickens and attacked a person. When one lives in rural areas, one takes care of problems like that by their selves.
If John Steinbeck was alive he would write a story about this nutjob.
An emotional reaction, not a utilitarian one. Political career-ender for a conservative straight White woman.
Coded message to her husband.
So, you grew up on a farm with fowl, cattle and horses?
“She could have given the Dog away.” Not likely. In farm country, people don’t want dogs who kill livestock. In cities, give a known biter away and you set yourself up to be sued 3 years later when (if) it rips a kid’s face off.
But it was stupid to write about it! “Shoot, shovel, shut up!” works. “Shoot, shovel, write a book about it!”? Not so much.
Agree. Do not shoot a dog. Not since Old Yeller. Walt Disney brought in his top writers and angrily demanded: “Don’t any of you ever, ever do that again in anything coming out of this studio.”
RE: “she also shot a goat she owned, which she said stunk and was “nasty and mean.”
When the subject of Leftists ruining our country comes up I tend to get “nasty and mean.” will she shoot me and drop my body in a gravel pit? I bathe, though so maybe not stinking helps. Hope so.
And not to stir salacious gossip, but were the affair rumors with Corey Lewandowsky ever proven true/false?
Idiots never growing up in rural America on a farm will never understand her reasoning.
That's evidenced by some of the clueless statements here.
Really?
I had a neighbor, a minister. He bought and raised a dog that was half wolf.
The dog was sneaky. It would bite you or your dog, when you weren’t looking.
It would roam and night killing neighbor chickens.
THe pastor just let the POS dog do this knowing that the dog was untrainable and impossible to be doesticated.
He eventually gave the dog away, instead of killing it.
and a coursse, as the story goes, he badly chewed up a baby’s face.
I am sure there are dog breeder’s every where esp ones selling German Shepherds who will kill a new born pup in. a litter is it shies away from gun fire.
A dog who bites its owner is not a dog one gives away. We don’t even know the whole history, there might’ve been other problems along with the bite and chicken-killing. My boss, a veterinarian who lived for hunting season, didn’t kill poor/gun-shy dogs, he gave them to people for pets. I never saw him give a biter away. That would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.
This would really pull me in both directions if she were to be on the ballot with Trump. My red line is animal cruelty. But my world is Trump. Hope he has more sense than to pick her.
I already didn’t vote for one Republican, now in Utah, who was said to buy animals for research purposes by unethically lying about his intended purpose. I don’t want to have to go thru that emotional crisis again.
Life is different out on the ranch. City folk will never understand. Never say the quiet part out loud.
Agreed. She is toast. I believe she has been since the “theatre incident.”