South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican seen as a potential running mate for Donald Trump, tells a story in her new book about shooting and killing her young dog and a goat,The Guardianreported. In the book, Noem explains in excruciating detail how she gunned down a ...
In Noem’s original story, she says that she “hated” Cricket and felt obligated to kill him after the dog revealed itself to be “untrainable,”“dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog. In her defense of the story after it went p...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem – who has been considered to be apotential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump– addressed on Sunday the recent attention on her new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog and a goat. The Guardianobtained a copy o...
Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy.
MORE: Kristi Noem blamed shooting her dog on the realities of rural life. Experts say that doesn't add up. She was also criticized for writing in her new memoir about how she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog "Cricket" after it demonstrated an "aggressive personality, and was for...
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. ...
Noem was already facing backlash for a description of how she shot a hunting dog. The book was part of an overt pitch to be chosen as a running mate for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But her political prospects have fallen amid bipartisan disgust for how she ...
episodefollowing the publication of her book: “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” In it, she revealed that she once killed her 14-month-old wirehair pointer, Cricket, when she was not displaying the signs of an ideal hunting dog...
But Noem found herself caught up in controversy last year following publication of an excerpt of a book in which she revealedshe’d shot and killed a family dog, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer named Cricket, in a gravel pit because the dog was “untrainable” and “dangerous to anyone ...
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...