Kristi Noem Brags in New Book About Killing ‘Worthless’ 14-Month-Old Puppy
Barf Bag: The South Dakota Governor and Trump VP contender seems to think that executing a healthy dog in a gravel pit shows off her leadership skills.
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It’s a good thing that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem‘s new veneers were probably free because her chances of getting picked as Donald Trump‘s running mate keep sinking lower and lower and it’d be embarrassing if she shelled out for those. First, it was reported that Trump is shying away from anti-abortion hardliners like Noem for his VP candidate because it turns out that voters like having rights. Now, Noem revealed in her own book that she shot and killed her puppy, named Cricket, because she was rowdy and not a good hunting dog. The wirehair pointer was just 14 months old.
This vile story somehow makes Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) look like a saint by comparison for tying the carrier of the family dog, Seamus, onto his car’s roof rack in 1983 for a 12-hour road trip. (Yes, Romney was mercilessly dragged for this cruelty in his 2012 presidential campaign.)
The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s forthcoming book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, and in it she admits that she shot the dog in frustration one day. Cricket apparently didn’t behave on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, as she went “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.” Then at a stop on the way home, Cricket escaped the truck and killed someone’s chickens and tried to bite Noem when she pulled her away.
Here’s how the Guardian describes what happened next:
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.