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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As a vet told us decades ago when he had to put down a injured horse. When asked why he did not just shoot the horse, he said “Always use a needle in public. It looks nicer.”
Even vets hate to have to put down animals.
I remember a man who had to shoot a stallion. The stallion had just ripped his son to pieces. Same for a dog tearing up another pet or child.
Again, city people just don’t understand.
It’s disappointing to only see complaints from urban and suburban p**sies who can’t imagine what life is like in the country or on a farm.
The real complaint here should be directed to the disingenuous press who are taking advantage of an ignorant audience to target their political enemies by providing a partial story.
Not backpedaling.
Chickens are livestock, too.
The dog was dangerous to animals and when it bit her, it proved it was dangerous to humans as well.
Animal shelters put down dangerous animals and nobody is having a hissy fit over them doing it.
This is just a hit piece on Noem to try to ruin her.
Also why even take a bad dog hunting in the flippin' first place?
Time to retire and live happily ever after, maybe angle for some kinda apparatchik job in the Trump administration.
Or, if need be maybe she could do like whatshername from The Sopranos and avail herself of another stream of income.
One thinks that everything will work out OK for her in spite of her mistakes, it's just time to move on from elected office.
Did Cricket kills some chickens or did he/she kill some cattle?
Exactly. I don’t know why she mentioned this in her book unless she figured that the far leftwingnut dumpster divers would have found it in a dumpster somewhere anyway.
This is a ridiculous side bender of a topic. WTH it’s not like she’s shooting her dogs for enjoyment. Eff the Woketards of the left who have no qualms about destroying innocent babies via abortions for their agenda.
Exactly right. My son said the exact same thing when we discussed this - who thought this would be a good idea to put in a memoir?
My husband came from a hunting family - he said disobedient, aggressive dogs were shot and killed immediately and no one thought a thing about it.
That said, I think she destroyed her political career.
Good grief. Dangerous dogs get put down. In the country, they get shot. Big whoop.
>> Major backfire. She’s toast.
Yup. Major lapse in good judgment. And overall, I LIKE Kristi Noem... too bad all around.
Probably would if people would ask her any other question... But, this one is getting a lot of traction that is playing well for RINO’s and Democrats... So the MSM will talk of nothing else....
At least she didn’t eat it.
He was not a patient man.
And these were not just ordinary egg laying white leghorn chickens.
They were expensive fancy chickens like you see at the county fairs.
And they had been kept in a fenced in coop yard, but the dog, a mixed breed pit bull, had dug into it.
I didn’t like the dog anyways, and his son, a grown man, didn’t really take care of the dog, just let it run around the yard as it pleased...........
that and the fact that she described it in the book as playful
Did she shoot a goat to protect her kids too ? What a despicable woman.
Yup.
Pitching a fit over shooting a dangerous animal yourself, but lauding the slaughter of babies in the womb.
Hypocrisy on full display.
Because a lot of “conservatives” think the 19th Amendment should be repealed and that no woman should hold a public office.
Others... are just RINO’s who don’t actually like conservatives.
Yep, don’t talk, just shoot.................
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