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PETA Brands Noem ‘Psychotic Loony’ For Killing Her 14-Month-Old Dog
Offthepress ^ | Noem

Posted on 04/27/2024 2:42:17 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Animal rights nonprofit group PETA has strongly condemned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) after she recently shared a story about her killing her 14-month-old dog, “Cricket,” for his lousy hunting skills.

The story is published in her book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward and was intended to show that when it came to politics or personal life, she wasn’t afraid of getting “messy and ugly.” It instead garnered sharp criticism from animal lovers everywhere.

“Most Americans love their dogs, and we suspect that they will consider Gov. Noem a psychotic loony for letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to personally blow her brains out rather than attempting to train her or find a more responsible guardian who would provide her with a proper home,” PETA Senior Director Colleen O’Brien said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “Gov. Noem obviously fails to understand the vital political concepts of education, cooperation, compromise, and compassion.

Noem decided to shoot Cricket after the dog killed a local family’s chickens after a pheasant hunting trip and then bit her when she tried to intervene. Noem said she “hated that dog” and deemed it “less than worthless” for being unable to hunt properly.

After taking the dog to a gravel pit and shooting it, she also shot a goat she owned, which she said stunk and was “nasty and mean.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kristinoem; noem; postcounttelling; shesdone; wherescricket
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To: NoLibZone

“She could have given the Dog away.”

From a PR point of view maybe.
But she did the right thing in removing a problem.


21 posted on 04/27/2024 3:01:03 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: NoLibZone

She just didn’t want to be the VP nomenee.


22 posted on 04/27/2024 3:01:04 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: NoLibZone

farm life...


23 posted on 04/27/2024 3:01:17 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: odawg
Why would she feel the need to air the story?

Construction workers witnessed it. Story would have come out.

24 posted on 04/27/2024 3:02:57 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: NoLibZone

Wow, disturbing is an understatement. I suspect she’s just ended her career.


25 posted on 04/27/2024 3:03:40 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: NoLibZone

And yet, abortion is ok.


26 posted on 04/27/2024 3:04:37 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Responsibility2nd

PETA is just another subsidiary of the DNC.


27 posted on 04/27/2024 3:06:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Wow. Quite the story. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do, and it sounds like you had no choice. Dogs are STILL animals, no matter how cuddly/smart etc. I remember a vet calling in to Rush one day when the subject was on vicious dogs, and she said the one dog she ALWAYS put a muzzle on when they came in was Chihuahuas! She was always getting bit by them. Said if they grew bigger than they are they’d be the most vicious dog out there. I believe her. I can’t stand them. I’ve been tempted to drop kick the little effers myself on a few occasions.


28 posted on 04/27/2024 3:06:58 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: NoLibZone

>>>>>
She’s done.

She could have given the Dog away.
<<<<

She could have kept her pie hole shut. Plenty of unpleasant/gross things may occur on a ranch or farm. No reason to share them out in your campaign book.


29 posted on 04/27/2024 3:10:54 PM PDT by 13foxtrot
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To: Responsibility2nd

“It was a justified shoot.”

Yes but going public about it probably wasn’t a smart move.


30 posted on 04/27/2024 3:11:53 PM PDT by Armscor38
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To: NoLibZone

How strange. People here are heading towards their fainting couches over putting down a dangerous god.

Biden’s dog routinely bit people. Pit bulls are vicious and unpredictable. Thinking people know they should be put away.

But Cricket should be placed for adoption? Where he can bite again.


31 posted on 04/27/2024 3:12:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Armscor38

Yes. But as has been said.... She is just getting out in front of the story.

This’ll blow over when the next news cycle begins.


32 posted on 04/27/2024 3:13:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: NoLibZone

I had a friend who worked at the local dog pound for a while. He went there because he loved animals. While there about the only thing he did was take dogs in and immediately take them in the back and euthanize them because the facility was so overcrowded. His girlfriend worked there too because she loved animals. She eventually committed suicide by jumping off a bluff.

Taking your dog to the pound is the same as killing it 99% of the time.

But you think she should have let somebody else kill it.


33 posted on 04/27/2024 3:13:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: NoLibZone

I think a lot of the controversy about this is the difference between city people and country people. Dogs are dogs, not people. I have a German Shepherd. She is a great dog and is extremely well taken care of. If she were to ever bite or seriously threaten a person she would not live out the day. That’s just the way it is. And that’s the way Noem thinks. You have a bad dog, killing livestock and acting aggressive, you put it down. You can’t tolerate it, and you can’t put your problem onto someone else.


34 posted on 04/27/2024 3:13:36 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: 13foxtrot

“She could have kept her pie hole shut. Plenty of unpleasant/gross things may occur on a ranch or farm. No reason to share them out in your campaign book.”

I agree.


35 posted on 04/27/2024 3:15:04 PM PDT by Armscor38
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To: NoLibZone

Somtimes we just can’t, but it’s best if an adult can do the hard things.


36 posted on 04/27/2024 3:15:22 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: KrisKrinkle

Like spell.


37 posted on 04/27/2024 3:15:52 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: NoLibZone

Why did she even write this in her book, its one thing of some DNC research came out with this info but she wrote it herself..WHY, what did she think she had to gain by saying this..instead she could have dropped the dog off at a kennel for re homing


38 posted on 04/27/2024 3:15:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 13foxtrot

EXACTLY by point, she had ZERO reason to put this in her book, HER BOOK, not some random rumor, but she wrote it herself


39 posted on 04/27/2024 3:17:04 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: NoLibZone
She could have given the Dog away.

In the west, a man forks his own. broncs.

40 posted on 04/27/2024 3:18:09 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I’ll)
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