The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting.
On the way home from the hunting trip, Noem writes that she stopped to talk to a family. Cricket got out of Noem’s truck and attacked and killed some of the family’s chickens, then bit the governor.
“At that moment,” Noem writes, “I realized I had to put her down.” She led Cricket to a gravel pit and killed her.
She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it has to be done. But backlash was swift against the Republican governor, who just a month ago drew attention and criticism for posting an infomercial-like video about cosmetic dental surgery she received out-of-state.
I had a coworker years ago who was rather obnoxious and I sort of had to tiptoe around her moods. Another staff member dropped by the office and was talking about how she had to take her beloved cat into the vet as it had some injury or illness, I don’t recall what, just office chitchat kind of thing and the cat ended up fine. Moody Woman announced that she had a cat years ago that got into paint thinner or something that had injured it and it was running around screaming, and she said “I didn’t have money for a vet, so I took it out back and chopped its head off with a shovel”.
And then when we stared at her in absolute horror, she said in a flippant way, “Don’t look at me like that, I couldn’t listen to that noise”.
Like it was just no big deal. I had to share an office with her for months after that, and I just avoided speaking to her as much as possible. How could you possibly do that?
I stopped being friends with someone who “re-homed” her dog of 8 years that she’d had from a puppy, so she could move into a new place where the landlord didn’t allow dogs. She just accepted the first convenient person on Craigslist who said they wanted him, no vetting.
We got our current dog because his previous owners of nearly eight years adopted a new puppy, and their old dog didn’t like the puppy. So they rehomed their old dog, rather than the puppy.
This dog is the chillest dog ever. Vets love him, groomers love him, we love him. He doesn’t do well with other dogs because they never trained him to.
I think it’s kind of terrible that they chose the puppy, but at the same time I’m so grateful they did because we love our little guy.
That’s bittersweet, but good that the dog gets to live with people who prioritize his well-being.
The right thing to do absolutely. I foster dogs for a rescue and some of them have come to me because the owner had a change in life circumstances. That happens, like one owner had to go into affordable housing and couldn’t take the dog, was devastated by it. Said dog is sitting looking at me with eyes of love as I type, five years after I adopted him. So it can end happily but you have to make an effort.
It’s very sad when people have to give up their pets because they can’t take care of them for reasons out of their control. I would be gutted if I didn’t have mine.
I wonder how she treats unruly children and people who don’t obey her. 🤔
Let’s just say if anyone decides to dig up that gravel pit, she’s in trouble.
Authoritarian virtue signaling.
I’m willing to murder my dog who else do you think I’m willing to murder? So how about you make me your VP?
That’s exactly what this is. It’s violence porn for right-wing psychos.
No wonder the orange mobster is looking at her. She has the stuff to execute his problems.
I wonder if presidential immunity is transferrable to the VP?
/s
Why do these folks keep getting nominated/elected? How long until it’s “the protesters were in the wrong place, so I realized I had to command police to open fire”?
Virtue signalling of exactly this.
This is the intended message.
Vice signaling.
“I will do monstrous things without hesitation because ‘good’ reasons.”
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, deeming her “untrainable.”
Sounds sane to me. Hating animals is cool.
Yup. And definitely not a big red flag of being a psychopath. No no!
Nooo, almost none of the known serial killers started without murdering animals.
Not at all psychopathic.
If I need to deploy the
/sfor you to know that I’m being absurd I can’t help you.
I have a pretty close to untrainable dog (she basically flunked out of obedience training) because she’s incredibly stubborn and I still love her with all of my heart.
That’s the right answer. My kitties keep eating the flowers my partner brought home. We don’t get mad at them. They’re cats!
How can you kill your own dog.
There are reasons. Being so-called “untrainable” isn’t one of them.
Agreed, I mean if a dog is dying and suffering, then I accept euthanasia but when a young healthy dog is killed just because you can’t handle it, you are a cunt.
I’m thinking of the old adage on how she lacks the warmth and depth to be a cunt.
Is it better to have someone else do it? Easier for sure, but is it actually better from an ethical standpoint?
Easy- her dog was a hunting tool, not a pet, so she got rid of it when she didn’t like it. She is incapable of feeling affection for anything but herself and she already made that very clear before putting out the book.
It’s a shame, because she was white and attractive, so she met the republican criteria for a female candidate. Unfortunately she forgot the secret criteria of being quiet and repeating what the man says.
Fully grown Dog abortion is A-OK!
So how deep is this gravel pit? I assume she had to wack the dog with a 2x4 or a framing hammer? Or maybe she tied him up and ran him over… that’s a very hard decision. There are harder ways. Like a small hatchet with a dull edge…you know like the French realty, lots of bone crackling and a big bloody mess? No thanks!
No thanks a lot! I’m vegan. We believe in reducing and eliminating animal torture.
You sure like to fantasize about killing animals though
The quoted text from the article says she was coming back from training the dog for pheasant hunting. Seems a safe bet she shot it.
Oh? Are you a vegan? Really?
How interesting.
No wonder trump and his robotic army of uncle fuckers love her so much.
If it ain’t:
- White
- Loves whites and sees them as persecuted
- Male
- Loves men and sees them as persecuted
- Straight
- Loves straight people and sees them as persecuted
Well then fuck them.
She killed her dog because she didn’t know how to train her dog
Not true. She trained it to chase pheasants all day before it attacked the chickens. It did exactly what she trained it to do.
Tbh not many people out there know how to train dogs (or cats for that matter).
In general, they don’t kill their dogs over their failure.
True, but they often send them back to where they adopted them from … when shelters are often overflowing.
Giving the dog another chance to be adopted is a hell of a lot better than having it follow you to a gravel pit and then killing it.
Better give the dog a chance. It’s a purebred, she would get adopted.
So what’s your point, genius? That we shouldn’t view her how she deserves to be viewed, I.e. a horrible person who shouldn’t be near any kind of grown up profession?
Straw man argument.
Not only a straw man, he also presented an ad hominem.
I mean yeah if I saw her or one of the other MAGAts dying in a ditch after a car accident, I’d pump my fist and continue on my merry way. Just being honest here.
Not really a distinction worth making when surrendering or adopting out a dog is just a pipeline to Euthanization anyways. This dog bit a human being, killed small animals for sport, it’s far too late to salvage.
There are plenty of no kill shelters. This county’s shelter is no kill.
And no kill shelters are selective and in high demand.
The one here is not selective. It serves a county of 100,000 people. The surrounding counties also have no-kill shelters.
Unfortunately, this will end up being a positive for the base.
They’re all defending her on her Facebook post about it,saying it’s a reality of living on a ranch. It just further cements my conviction that conservatives are lacking in conscience. They squawk on and on about abortion being so wrong, but literally killing a literal sentient being for some behavior problem versus removing a few cells is completely beyond their comprehension. They’re so cognitively dull.
This will never age well. Begin precipitous decline.
No decline here… we just take her to the gravel pit.
Begin? It started decades ago. Fuck we are nearing a century lol
Psychopath
Conservative
damn, wonder what she does to people who marginally slight her in office.
Sounds like the perfect sidekick for a petulant forked tongue fake tanned false god
