She also said she hated the dog. It didn’t kill any animals or chickens. He chased them.
She could have rehomed him. Said he wasn’t a good hunting dog. My cousin sent his lab to 6 month training camp to be a Master hunter. Cost 5K. She could have chose to do that also.
An excerpt from The Guardian:
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and 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”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
As I said, I don't agree with killing the dog, but the dog did a lot more than just being 'untrainable.'