Kristi Noem shot a puppy for being untrainable as a hunting dog

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Anonymous wrote:I read the story. The dog, Cricket, sucked at hunting. Noem couldn't control her. Cricket got loose, attacked and killed several chicken belonging to another family so she shot Cricket. More recently her other dog Hazel died "in an accident". At some point you're just a shitty pet owner and should just stop owning dogs if you can't train, control them or protect them.

The dog was violent and killed other animals. It's aggressive behavior wouldn't have been tolerated in a shelter and the shelter would have to put the dog down anyway.

That is not true.

Source: I work in sheltering

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Anonymous wrote:Funny line: “Somehow, the dog escaped from the truck.” Seriously? (“Somehow, the dog escaped from the truck.”!). The dog could have been in an animal carrier in the bed of the truck, which a rich farm girl certainly could have afforded. Or, the dog could have been on a leash attached to its collar, and secured so that she didn’t run around between the governor’s legs as she was working the ickens gas pedal, the brake pedal, and the clutch. And why did the governor stop at all? And why did her neighbors have free range chickens running around in the open during pheasant season? There is a structure called a chicken coop. When padlocked, it keeps birds safe from weasels, ferrets, skunks, barn cats, foxes, and bird dogs who haven’t yet learned the difference between a chicken, a ruffed grouse, a waterfowl, and a pheasant. This looks like a case of humans who chose to blame a puppy for their faults. Not only that, but Governor Noem hunts her pen-raised pheasants on a game reserve ($$$), hunts her elk with 4 guides on a “Safari” that packs the elk out, guts it, skins it, arranges for a $20,000 trophy mount stuffed head, and butchers the meat for her, and goes to Satskatchewan with her niece to hunt Black Bear at $3,500 a person on a guided “Safari” where all the same work is done for her by the friendly guides, butchers, and taxidermists. That’s at least $50,000. So, this “out in the Midwest on rural farms we do things that sound horrible to you naive city slickers” horse manure is just that…horse manure. I grew up in the country where the two occupations were farming and deer poaching, and I know a few things about both. If Governor Noem runs a cattle operation, she knows a vet who comes out to vaccinate her stock and treat them when they are sick, and that vet knows how to put down a dog, a goat, and 3 horses humanely, and how to dispose of the carcasses so that coyotes aren’t attracted and diseases aren’t spread. Just leaving carcasses of dead animals at the bottom of a gravel pit that doesn’t belong to you is illegal in Texas, and probably in South Dakota too. Chronic Wasting Disease is all the way to the Canadian border now, and if there is a hoof-in-mouth disease outbreak, that’s gonna be a lot more hell to pay than a few dead chickens. Bottom line, there are a lot of city slickers who want to wear fluorescent pink on their camo that don’t know agricultural science, don’t know livestock, don’t know dogs, and can’t tell a shotgun from a rifle. Governor Noem is one of them. She should stick to Corey Lewandowski, and stay away from animals and firearms. She is Exhibit A as to why the Second Amendment applies to a well regulated militia like the Army Reserve and the National Guard. Keep your firearms locked up in a gun safe. Keep your ammunition locked up separately. Get a baseball bat for self defense, or else a K bar.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I read the story. The dog, Cricket, sucked at hunting. Noem couldn't control her. Cricket got loose, attacked and killed several chicken belonging to another family so she shot Cricket. More recently her other dog Hazel died "in an accident". At some point you're just a shitty pet owner and should just stop owning dogs if you can't train, control them or protect them.

The dog was violent and killed other animals. It's aggressive behavior wouldn't have been tolerated in a shelter and the shelter would have to put the dog down anyway.

The dog was being typical of its breed. The owner on the other hand was being violent and aggressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read the story. The dog, Cricket, sucked at hunting. Noem couldn't control her. Cricket got loose, attacked and killed several chicken belonging to another family so she shot Cricket. More recently her other dog Hazel died "in an accident". At some point you're just a shitty pet owner and should just stop owning dogs if you can't train, control them or protect them.

The dog was violent and killed other animals. Its aggressive behavior wouldn't have been tolerated in a shelter and the shelter would have to put the dog down anyway.

It doesn’t even say the dog was violent, it says it was “interested” in the chickens. I think she just realized that she had no intention of training the dog and flaked out, and not only did she not have any intention in training it, but she didn’t to go through the hassle of rehoming or taking it to a shelter. So she killed it. Wanton abuse of an animal life - and I come from an actual farming and hunting background. No way in hell do you just kill an animal that 1) isn’t sick 2) isn’t aggressive 3) was expensive.

She’s country cosplaying and idiots are lapping it up. Normal people not so much.

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She’s done the impossible and united red and blue America against her. So at least there’s that.

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So she doubled down. At least she still has South Dakota politics because she gave up ambitions for any national ones.

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There’s got to be more to this. Nobody in politics is this stupid to tell such a story. She does not want to be vice president or something. There totally can be dogs and other animals that have to be put down for safety and even food production but it is a rueful and emotionally difficult act. Should never be done out of “anger” or “emotion”.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s got to be more to this. Nobody in politics is this stupid to tell such a story. She does not want to be vice president or something. There totally can be dogs and other animals that have to be put down for safety and even food production but it is a rueful and emotionally difficult act. Should never be done out of “anger” or “emotion”.

I don’t think there’s any deep dark secret. She’s got sociopathic tendencies - and her politics indicate such - and she thought it was a charming story of her being “country.”

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Anonymous wrote:
have no problem with killing a terminally aggressive dog or goat. People do this in farming and hunting families but they don't talk about it in their books, at least not in that way. It's a sad event, and one to reflect on soberly about what you could have done better. It's true that domestic animals can get hostile. There are many courses of action available before shooting them.

The problem is that she's exploiting a violent action involving a gun to try and hit all the Republican MAGA pressure points about self-reliance, gun worship and offending the soft urbanites who flinch at the idea of taking care of business oneself. THAT is disrespectful to the real farm and hunting life.

The dog was not “terminally aggressive”. Noem was just an idiot dog owner who had no clue about the breed and no patience to train it correctly.

Did you not read the whole post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read the story. The dog, Cricket, sucked at hunting. Noem couldn't control her. Cricket got loose, attacked and killed several chicken belonging to another family so she shot Cricket. More recently her other dog Hazel died "in an accident". At some point you're just a shitty pet owner and should just stop owning dogs if you can't train, control them or protect them.

The dog was violent and killed other animals. It's aggressive behavior wouldn't have been tolerated in a shelter and the shelter would have to put the dog down anyway.

Are you Noem’s cousin? The dog killed chickens because it wasn’t under the control of its owner.

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The dog was a young, rambunctious puppy. Puppies are like this. She can double down all she likes, but she can't take back what she did. Now she's trying to justify what she did, but it's obvious she's making lying liar excuses.

Bottom line is she deliberately brought her dog around chickens. She deliberately allowed that dog to be around chickens, unleashed. As a bird dog owner, she knew EXACTLY what her young, untrained, rambunctious dog would do. She was looking for an excuse to shoot it in the face. The dog gave her the excuse she was looking for, as she had anticipated when she let it loose around the chickens. She proceeded to heartlessly execute that poor young lively dog.

She's a sociopath. Y'all want a sociopath for a vice president?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
have no problem with killing a terminally aggressive dog or goat. People do this in farming and hunting families but they don't talk about it in their books, at least not in that way. It's a sad event, and one to reflect on soberly about what you could have done better. It's true that domestic animals can get hostile. There are many courses of action available before shooting them.

The problem is that she's exploiting a violent action involving a gun to try and hit all the Republican MAGA pressure points about self-reliance, gun worship and offending the soft urbanites who flinch at the idea of taking care of business oneself. THAT is disrespectful to the real farm and hunting life.

The dog was not “terminally aggressive”. Noem was just an idiot dog owner who had no clue about the breed and no patience to train it correctly.

Did you not read the whole post?

Did you?

[Anonymous]

A few years ago my neighbor found a sack full of puppies that had been shot. One was still alive and he has been taking care of it ever since. Three legs left.

There is a sort of person who kills what it can't control. They are taught by their parents that disobedient dogs should be killed. Think about that, please. There are trainers that raise hunting dogs, guard dogs, search dogs, etc. It does not matter what the animal was bred to be. It can be trained. People have been training dogs for centuries.

Killing one because you aren't a good trainer says everything about the person and nothing about the dog.

Now, if the dog had later stage rabies its go time. But that is not the story here.

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Anonymous wrote:She’s done the impossible and united red and blue America against her. So at least there’s that.

exactly

there are deep lessons here

no matter the flaws of the modern world, we still agree on dogs