Posted on 04/29/2024 10:44:11 AM PDT by thegagline
Gov. Kristi Noem has “no shot” at being Donald Trump’s running mate after revealing in a forthcoming book that she shot and killed her puppy, sources close to the 45th president tell The Post.
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“She was already unlikely to be picked as VP, but had a shot,” the person said of Noem, who has been widely projected to be on Trump’s shortlist.
“After this, it’s just impossible.”
Noem writes, according to the Guardian, that she executed Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, after determining that the pooch’s “aggressive personality” made her “untrainable” as a hunting dog.
“It was not a pleasant job,” the 52-year-old recounts, “but it had to be done.”
*** “Trump isn’t a dog person necessarily,” “but I think he understands that you can’t choose a puppy killer as your pick, for blatantly obvious reasons.”
A second source told The Post that Trump “likes Kristi a lot,” but was “disappointed when hearing the ‘dog’ story. ***
Unfettered, Cricket 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,” according to the governor.
When Noem tried to restrain the dog, Cricket “whipped around to bite me,” and was “the picture of pure joy” during the fowl-killing spree.
In the same excerpt, Noem described in graphic detail her killing a male goat who was “nasty and mean” because it was uncastrated, and “loved to chase” her children around.
To kill the goat, she “dragged him to the gravel pit” where she disposed of Cricket and had to shoot him repeatedly to finish the job.
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Dogs are highly trainable. But sometimes, like with humans, you just get a bad dog.
There was a time when all animals had to earn their keep lest they put the family at risk. I doubt that has been the case for at least 50 years if not longer. I learned this lesson with Mitt Romney, people who treat pets cruelly should not be trusted with power.
True. I understand that. I think, though, that many times people do the easy thing instead of exhausting all other options. Did she think maybe she should have the goat fixed to see if that would settle it down? I mean, one animal, sure. But having to shoot multiple animals it makes me think maybe the animals aren’t the only problem.
I wouldn’t compare what Romney did with shooting a dangerous dog on a farm.
I had just come home after 2 weeks on the road. Banging the wife like she owed me money. We lived in the woods. Heard a ruckus. I killed it dead.
Dan Lussen is a professional liar.
A 14-month-old dog is the equivalent of an 18-year-old human.
You know - a "baby". /s
Although I thought she had already done so when she vetoed that tranny bill.
They are doing a darn good job of it with the absolute wusses on this very website who lap up the leftist pap that is fed to them.
In our time there are humane alternatives: (a) the breeder might have taken the dog back, (b) Noem might have rehomed the dog, (c) euthanasia at a vet was certainly possible. But no. She had to swagger around and kill the dog herself then brag about it in her book. This reveals a deep, deep character flaw in Ms. Noem such that I am one who would never vote for a ticket with her on it.
She lived on her family’s working ranch. I’m not going to judge what an individual might need to do in a situation, and an environment, like that. It’s a ‘culture’ with its own needs and accepted practices.
A lot of the people condemning her, are the kinds of people that say that you shouldn’t kill animals for food, because you can buy meat at the supermarket.
I don’t know; I think for many the fact that it’s a dog is the problem. (I wonder what they’d say about shooting a coyote that was endangering the stock - or a wolf.)
Many of the libtards and RINOs attacking Noem for this are likely supporters of feticide.
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.
She thought the story as already out there, and her opponents would have leaked it anyway as an October surprise.
Thank you for your insights. It crossed my mind that little to no effort was put in to train this dog. Noem just wrote her ticket to political oblivion.
The dog I shot had its clothes on.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Dogs are trainable, coyotes/wolves not so much. My dad has had to shoot coyotes that were threatening. I think that’s justified. I definitely think that the fact it was a young domesticated dog is the problem for many. Honestly, for me, I think the worst part is that she showed poor judgment in talking about it. If I had had to make an unpalatable decision like that, I wouldn’t be telling anyone about it.
How dumb is it to tell a nation of dog lovers that you chose to shoot a dog of no immediate threat that you apparently couldn’t train and didn’t like in a gravel pit instead of finding another home for the dog? And then crow about how this proves you don’t avoid the “tough” decisions. What an idiot (and psycho).
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