Noem reported that the puppy was disobedient and out “having the time of her life” during a pheasant hunting trip and that the animal later attacked and killed a neighbor's chickens. The ill-fated Cricket proved not to be a bad hunter, after all, but was guilty of kil...
But Cricket, Noem writes, went “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.” Then, on the way home, the dog attacked a local family’s chickens and “whipped around to bite” Noem when she tried to stop him. She proceeded to shoot...
Afterward, Noem wrote, she led Cricket to a gravel pit and killed her. She said she also shot a goat that the family owned, saying it was mean and liked to chase her kids. The response to the story was swift: “Post a picture with your dog that doesn’t involve shooting them and...
the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But her political prospects have fallen amid bipartisan disgust for how she recounted killing her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket after it had shown
It didn’t work and then on the way home, Noem wrote that when 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 the dog “whipped around to bite me,” she wrote. “At that moment,” Noem w...
"Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did," Noem wrote. "Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it's hard and painful. I followed the law and was...
“At that moment,” Noem wrote, “I realized I had to put her down.” She led Cricket to a gravel pit and killed her. Critics lambasted her while she defended the killing of Cricket as an example of her willingness to make hard choices. ...
Noem recounts she killed the dog, who lived on the family’s farm in South Dakota, because of its “aggressive personality” and lack of hunting skills. She also writes that Cricket escaped her truck and attacked a group of chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to...