Posted on 04/29/2024 10:44:11 AM PDT by thegagline
Gov. Kristi Noem has “no shot” at being Donald Trump’s running mate after revealing in a forthcoming book that she shot and killed her puppy, sources close to the 45th president tell The Post.
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“She was already unlikely to be picked as VP, but had a shot,” the person said of Noem, who has been widely projected to be on Trump’s shortlist.
“After this, it’s just impossible.”
Noem writes, according to the Guardian, that she executed Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, after determining that the pooch’s “aggressive personality” made her “untrainable” as a hunting dog.
“It was not a pleasant job,” the 52-year-old recounts, “but it had to be done.”
*** “Trump isn’t a dog person necessarily,” “but I think he understands that you can’t choose a puppy killer as your pick, for blatantly obvious reasons.”
A second source told The Post that Trump “likes Kristi a lot,” but was “disappointed when hearing the ‘dog’ story. ***
Unfettered, Cricket attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another,” according to the governor.
When Noem tried to restrain the dog, Cricket “whipped around to bite me,” and was “the picture of pure joy” during the fowl-killing spree.
In the same excerpt, Noem described in graphic detail her killing a male goat who was “nasty and mean” because it was uncastrated, and “loved to chase” her children around.
To kill the goat, she “dragged him to the gravel pit” where she disposed of Cricket and had to shoot him repeatedly to finish the job.
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It is a double standard. But no one is going to win that argument.
People want their steak, but don’t necessarily want to meet the cow beforehand. They will always think of dogs - and any companion animals - entirely differently.
“Dogs are trainable, coyotes/wolves not so much.”
My aunt had a couple huskies/half wolf. Can’t remember what year the troubles happened but both went back to killing sheep, goats, whatever and both had to be put down. You can’t train the wild out of wolves far as I know.
We had a Brittany Spaniel in the family. If he was running free, he was looking for feathers or fur. Feathers were feathers - he didn’t distinguish between pheasants or chickens & he did kill chickens. The worst massacre was 5 chickens in one spree ... my SIL’s elderly dad let him out, forgetting he’d let the chickens out earlier.
He was a very good hunting dog and a nice family dog so the chicken killing was forgiven & we had to be careful who was out when & supervise his daily runs in the field so he didn’t visit the neighbor’s chickens.
Fourteen months is not a puppy. I had a friend who was an avid upland bird hunter and no dog got a free home with him for they were working dogs. It hunted to his satisfaction or it would make a hunting trip from which it did not return.
This is the first that I am hearing all of these details.
The story I heard was that she killed it because it wasn’t a good hunting do and ruined a hunt.
I thought she sounded like a heartless bitch.
I didn’t hear that it killed a bunch of her chickens and tried to bite her. I might have done the same thing.
Correct. She’s a dumbass.
Sounds like the only hope she has now is to have an abortion.
“My source tells me that the VP is Ben Carson”
I hope not. I think he’s an outstanding man and a humanitarian, but when he’s speaking I nearly fall asleep before he finishes the first sentence (and I’m a pretty patient listener). I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more non-dynamic speaker in the political area - and of course he’s not a career politician, but if he were campaigning as Trump’s VP that’s the playing field he’d be on.
Guess I’m too pragmatic. I worked and lived on ranches. Some family still own and killing bad animals is necessary. I get the little puppy thing. Bad story or maybe I’m callous.
For this age I probably am callous.
I completely agree with your take. On the farm my father had a rule that if any animal continually showed aggressive tendencies such that it put people (most important) or other animals or livestock at risk - they were put down. He had a dog that was wonderful around immediate family members, but it wouldn’t stop killing chickens and ducks and would be suddenly aggressive with visitors. It pained him to put the dog down but he didn’t hesitate. Then again, he didn’t go off and write a book about it either. The shoot, shovel and shut up rule tends to be part of the farmer / rancher way in my experience at least.
A man in my neighborhood had a wolf hybrid. Probably not an F1, but he wouldn’t let anyone near it.
One vicious dog killed and it’s a national travesty.
Millions of babies slaughtered. No biggie.
Waiting to sink her fangs into Noem’s leg.
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Again. Just like pit bulls are waiting to sink their fangs into another child. Again.
Good.
It already does with people who love babies.
The problem is more people love dogs than babies.
I will argue to the contrary. For reasons I will never know he came to speak in my home town. Someone put up some pre primary bucks I guess. There were no Uhh pauses. He spoke for an hour and a half extemporaneously with no notes.
He never stood behind the podium but rather roamed the stage, mic in hand, making point after point, after point......... all while making eye contact with his audience. As a speaker the man is in fact superb.
He sold me. He has a fantastic story of being a project raised afro heritage boy that became an extraordinary surgeon and administrative executive..
More humane than giving to dog up to a shelter?
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You’ve been on a few of the “puppy murdering” threads. You know good and well what she did was more humane than taking it to a shelter where it would be frightened, scared, alone, then killed anyway.
Or are you under the dangerous idea that Cricket could be rehomed?
....because the dog attacked and killed chickens, it might have eventually attacked children....
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The dog did attack her. So why wouldn’t it attack children?
You have a legitimate viewpoint here.
I just dislike the guy lying for The Media about the not-puppy dog.
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