Posted on 05/02/2024 7:06:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who has been under the microscope this week for an anecdote about killing her dog, defended her actions Wednesday, saying she shot the “dangerous” pup in order to protect her children.
“It was a dog that was extremely dangerous,” Noem said Wednesday on Fox News’s “Hannity.” “It had come to us from a family who had found her way too aggressive.”
“We were her second chance. And she was — the day she was put down was a day that she massacred livestock that were part of our neighbors,” she continued. “She attacked me. And it was a hard decision.”
Noem added that she had to make a choice between “keeping my small children and other people safe, or a dangerous animal, and I chose the safety of my children.”
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Tell me yer a feckin’ idjit, without tellin’ me yer a feckin’ idjit ...
I see plenty of comments here from posters saying that people should be put down before they eventually kill someone. And “ progressive” DAs are letting serial criminals loose to do just that. Not going to get too worked up over someone else’s decision to put down a second-chance dog that threatened them, rather than kick the problem down to a third owner.
Back in the ‘70s, an uncle got a little terrier mix while traveling in Oregon. Harmless enough dog. Back in Missouri, it killed a couple of chickens. It was put down. Farms work that way.
So, Rooster, you question Noem’s motives? Or her veracity? Maybe she shot the dog for kicks? She could have fleshed out the story in the book, or left it out entirely. Her choice. Should she have known she’d be raked over the coals no matter what she wrote? Probably. Not the biggest gaffe she’s ever committed. Call it her “fweedom” moment.
"Animal shelters put down dangerous animals and nobody is having a hissy fit over them doing it."
Fallacy and more lying by omission. She didn't just "put down" the dog. Do those shelters take them out back and shoot them? I'm sure someone would have a "hissy fit" then.
Ever lived in a rural area, or on a farm? How do you know the chickens weren’t in Noem’s yard?
That there is more outrage over this what politicians did to underage girls on Epstein or over politicians that support abortion until birth or sex changes on kids shows how morally backward that nation has become.
I question her judgment for putting it in her memoir and referring to it lightly (in a way that almost looks like bragging--per Dana Perino who read the book and grew up on a farm).
I grew up around animals (dogs, cats, chickens, and horses). It was not a light moment when any of them were put down.
Is that the same puppy that she called “the picture of joy”?. She’s a real dummy.
I would have taken the the dog and it would have lived a happy life. I had 50+ dogs and they were all special. And I had a few extremely aggressive dogs and if I would have had to put one down I would have down it with reverence, dignity and humanely. No of which Noem did.
I think Cricket was female.
A funny story back in the 60s my grandpa had an English Pointer that was pulling feathers out of his chickens. He waited until he caught the dog in the act and grabbed the dog by the collar and the chicken by the feet; then proceeded to beat the dog with the chicken until the chicken was pulp. The dog never touched another chicken in its life.
Exactly....At 14 months a dog is an ADULT dog, not a puppy.
Chickens on the loose get killed by predators.
What she did, and bragged about it, was disgusting.
But what Fauci did to puppies was 1,000 times worse than what Noem did. Whose panties are in a wad because of HIM?
Dogs are considered adults when over one year old.
In the lying department, if you keep adding facts after the initial statement over a period of days, it’s not a good look.
Our daughter had to have her dog put down after she (the dog) had attacked two or three other dogs and bitten three people including our daughter who had to spend two weeks in the hospital recovering. The dog had to die although she had been my daughter’s dog for eleven years. It was heart wrenching. So I get it that when a dog has proved him/herself to be dangerous, you have to put it down but I’m not sure why she bragged about it. Things like that are sad not joyful. A person very dear to me grew up on a farm in the early 20th century. When he was a little boy he was ordered to drown puppies. There was no spaying back then and a farm can’t afford a pack of dogs. So he did it once but never again and he still grieved 50 years later.
The joy of "the meeting of the minds" about butchering a dog.
Some do, especially in rural areas where there are no tax dollars for such expensive luxuries as "animal shelters".
Shooting dogs in the head is a very humane way to put them down.
Perhaps those who label themselves "animal lovers" object to the blunt reality of the method.
It leaves no doubt the dog is dead. There is no image of a dog who is just "sleeping" and has stopped breeding.
Many seem simply to urgently deny the reality of death, and the reality that all of us are going to die.
Somebody needs to take her shovel.
“stopped breeding” should be “stopped breathing”...
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