South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) describes shooting her dog after a hunting trip in her upcoming book, according to a report in The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book. Politics and how we move America forward. ”
Noem, who has been talked about as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, wrote in her book that she became angry with Cricket, a nearly 14-month-old wire-haired pointer, during a hunting trip. There is.
Noem shot and killed the dog after taking it pheasant hunting.
According to the Guardian, she took Cricket hunting in the hope that he would learn from the older dog, but instead, the younger dog “had the time of his life chasing birds” and learned to hunt. I wrote that I ruined it.
On the way home, the dog escaped from the truck and attacked a local family’s chickens.[ing] Noem took one chicken at a time, biting it to death in one bite, then dropping it to attack another chicken.
When Noem tried to grab the dog, the dog swung around and bit her, she wrote. Noem cut her family a check for her chickens, and she helped dispose of the carcasses “strewn around the crime scene,” she said.
“I hated that dog,” she wrote, adding that Cricket was untrainable, dangerous and worthless as a hunting dog.
“At that moment, I knew I had to put her down,” Noem wrote.
She then took Cricket to a gravel pit on her property and shot him. She wrote that it was “not a fun job” but that she “had to do it.”
Noem later wrote that she also killed a “mean and spiteful” male goat that liked to sniff and chase children. The first time he shot the goat, it jumped up, so it took two shots to “kill the goat.”
The Guardian wrote that the story was told as an anecdote showing that Noem believes in sometimes having to carry out difficult tasks and is not afraid to do so. According to the Guardian, Noem uses the story to explain that she’s willing to do anything that simply has to be done, even if it’s “difficult and messy and ugly.”
Noem also wrote that she noticed a construction worker had watched her kill the two animals, but the worker returned to work before the school bus dropped off the children.
When her daughter arrived, Noem wrote in her book, she looked around confused and asked where Cricket was.
“If I were a better politician, I wouldn’t be here talking about this,” Noem wrote.
When The Hill contacted Noem’s office to ask about the report, it pointed to a tweet from her personal account.
Noem appeared to confirm the story in a tweet, saying her book would include more politically incorrect stories.
“We love animals, but difficult decisions like this happen all the time on the farm. Sadly, a few weeks ago we had to let go of three horses that had been in our family for 25 years. Media If you want more real, honest and politically incorrect stories that will take your breath away, pre-order No Going Back, she wrote.
Updated at 11:43 a.m. ET
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