People in my family, myself included, hunt and fish. We don’t do it for trophies or sport. It ends up as food. And we don’t shoot dogs because they are ‘untrainable’. She fucked up. She killed that poor dog because she lacked the common sense to give it away to someone who knows what they’re doing. She threw it away like garbage. She’s a shit stain of a human being.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem writes in her forthcoming book that she gunned down her own dog – and a family goat – in an effort to show she’s capable of dealing with anything that’s ‘difficult, messy and ugly.’
……In it she writes about Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer, that Noem shot at the gravel pit on her family property, moments before her children came home from school.
The dog, Noem claimed, had an ‘aggressive personality’ that couldn’t be tamed – as evidenced by the fact that Cricket ruined a pheasant hunt for being ‘out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.’
Additionally when the South Dakota governor took Cricket with her to meet a local family the dog started killing the family’s chickens like ‘a trained assassin.’
According to a book excerpt obtained by the Guardian, Cricket ‘grabbed one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.’
When Noem finally grabbed the dog she wrote that Cricket ‘whipped around to bite me.’
Cricket was ‘the picture of pure joy.’ Meanwhile the chickens’ owner wept.
Noem said she wrote a check ‘for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime.’
‘I hated that dog,’ Noem wrote, believing the 14-month-old pooch to be ‘untrainable,’ ‘dangerous to anyone she came in conatct with’ and ‘less than worthless … as a hunting dog.’
So she decided to kill Cricket.
‘At that moment,’ the governor wrote. ‘I realized I had to put her down.’
She shot Cricket at the family’s gravel pit
‘It was not a pleasant job,’ Noem said, ‘but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.’
Noem decided to off the family goat as well because he was ‘nasty and mean,’ as he remained uncastrated and smelled ‘disgusting, musky [and] rancid’ and ‘loved to chase’ the governor’s children.
She ‘dragged him to the gravel pit’ as well, but the goat jumped as she tried to shoot him, leaving him briefly alive.
Noem said she had to go back to her truck and retrieve another shell and then ‘hrried back to the gravel pit and put him down.’
Trump was contemplating her as his VP running mate. This should change his mind.