She killed a puppy for acting like a puppy and scaring birds during a hunt. It was 14 months old and sounds like it had zero training. So she takes it to a gravel pit and shoots it. A puppy. For being excited by birds. And it wasn’t trained how to behave around birds.
And then she writes on Twitter that her autobiography has more stories that will upset the press. She is actually psychotic.
Did I miss something? That was a shitty example to back up her angle that the dog was untrainable or whatever. The real “reason” was the puppy killed a bunch of the neighbor’s chickens. That is a fact, as in order of events. The motivation could be many other things, such as: not wanting the bad PR, trying to smooth things over with a neighbor, legitimate guilt/empathy/something for the neighbor losing their chickens as some families may be really attached to their chickens either emotionally and/or financially.etc wow I don’t mind saying something that is unpopular but I very much do mind people thinking I’m defending animal cruelty or that I find it anything less than awful and heartless. I was questioning specifically what the comment said about killing a puppy FOR being a puppy. When I said the motivation could have been anything else, I meant she could have killed the puppy for any of those awful reasons too but I did not understand how killing chickens = being a puppy, which someone did kindly answer for me. Clearly I expressed myself very poorly.
The thing is she wasn’t sad to have to do it. She said she “hated” the puppy.
Yeah im really sorry, I was not in any way shape or form anywhere near that woman’s side but that was not clear. Thank you for being decent to me despite what your impression may have been.
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Just to be clear…. On a bird hunting trip, the dog killed some birds… the wrong birds, but still birds. And that’s a reason to murder it?
Where I’m from, most farmers with chickens would have shot the dog first. If your animal kills someone else’s livelihood, they are going to react poorly.
While its fucked to kill your own dog, this is a common reason to put down animals.
Putting down animals for misbehaving is fundamentally fucked and anyone who does it shouldn’t be allowed around animals - or as they say where you’re from - “While its fucked to kill your own kind, this is a common reason to put down animals.”
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which also doesn’t feel justified…
My old boss’s retriever dog killed a chicken once. He told her ‘no!’ very sternly, and taught her not to do that. She never killed a chicken again.
At least try training the animal first, for fuck’s sake
On the way home from the hunting trip, Noem writes that 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 bit the governor.
Also the purpose of a bird hunting dog is not to kill the birds but to help the hunter locate them, flush them out of their hideouts and retrieve them after they’ve been shot by the hunter.
If you think any of those things is a reason to lead a puppy to a gravel pit and shoot it, I sincerely hope you don’t ever have any dogs you are responsible for.
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When I was young I used to live in rural town and had a puppy that was tough to train. I found the puppy a new home with someone that had the time to train it. I didn’t shoot the dog and blame it on living in a rural county.
I assume you’re too good a person to be nominee for VP though
Well, they certainly can’t be a republican VP.
Dare I say it…What Would Jesus Do?? 😂
THIS!
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Buy a bird dog.
WTF, this dog is OBSESSED with birds.
Let dog run loose.
Dog catches birds.
Bird dog is happy for catching birds.
UNACCEPTABLE!
Shoot dog.Nobody understands, this dog was a maniac around birds!
“I took my dog hunting and it killed a chicken instead of the bird I wanted it to kill, so I shot my dog” is one hell of a take, eh?
I agree with you on everything else. But bird dogs aren’t for killing birds. They locate and/or retrieve.
I get that social media seems to be a constant stream of outrage with nobody actually caring, but I think this story might actually derail her.
There are articles in Fox News, NY Post, and other conservative media outlets about this. They are fairly critical. The fox news one includes tweets from a “country boy” who is like “there’s a difference between taking an old animal out back and a fucking puppy”.
Best case scenario, she didn’t train the dog well… that’s not a great reason to murder it
People are crazy.
I saw the movie ‘Enter The Dragon’ in theaters dozens of times back when grind houses were a thing. Every time some thug got killed the crowd cheered. The minute the villain threatened to kill his own cat people were horrified.
Faked out again.
Humans are sapient, while some other animals can claim the same title as well most cant. Humans can be introspective but most animals fundamentally cannot, there are lots of good reason to kill a human animals should only be killed for food or necessity.
people don’t like thugs. thugs are dangerous and bad for society. so social creatures like humans naturally cheer them getting creamed. baby animals that are pets? hint: one thing isn’t a different thing. context. it’s what gives meaning.
i think so too. killing a puppy is pretty generally reviled here. and rightly so.
She posted that she “…just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago”.
Again as a person who grew up in the country around livestock, WTF is she doing that she had to put down multiple horses? Maybe she should really reconsider any form of animal husbandry because they sure as fuck sound like completely incompetent ranchers.
Maybe she just can’t stop at killing just a single horse.
Once you pop, you can’t stop.
Maybe she should be prosecuted for animal abuse.
At minimum she needs to be investigated.
She also had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago. Wonder what they did, eat too much hay? Whinney too much in excitement? Perhaps they were just untrainable as well… Things that don’t serve a purpose must die. Ah, that’s leadership.
Kristi Noem is a dog murdering psycho cunt. I wish her a lifetime of UTIs, hangnails, yeast infections, and congested sinuses.
Edit: added UTIs
I hope she catches her new fake teeth on a door frame.
Yes!
Can we add UTI’s?
Added.
Absofuckinglutely.
Bitch you could have re-homed the dog to someone who actually knows what the fuck they’re doing.
Kristi Noem is a certified piece of shit and shame on whichever Dakota voted her in.
Where the fuck is John Wick when you need him …
I thought this was an Onion article, and a far stretched one at that. Jesus fucking Christ.
Sometimes you need to offer people rope to hang themselves, sometimes you need to offer people shovels to dig their own grave.
…She must own her own hardware store
A very disgusting thing to say.
It’s not the saying part that bothers me
Patton Oswalt told me “I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy.” And I disagree. I thought it was the raping. - Norm MacDonald.
Thank you. So many people excuse rape, victim blame, and don’t see it as a “bad crime.”
She is another performative politician. Don’t give her clicks
Somehow I don’t think reading a Mother Jones article counts as giving her any clicks
We are talking about her, aren’t we? The media is continuously giving these performative rightwingers free advertising.
I wouldn’t call educating people about how terrible she is “free advertising”. If you ignore this shit, they’ll keep electing her
Noted. That is of course why Clinton won in 2016.
All publicity is good publicity.
No.
Reporting “Trump wants to deport millions of people” is considered a bad story by many but actually viewed as a good thing by plenty of Americans, which is why the “negative” press coverage was to Trump’s benefit as free media for his message.
You won’t find anyone viewing Noem euthanizing puppies and goats as a positive.
i think the bs the dnc pulled on bernie may have played a role…
this isn’t shows how futile it is to try to shame such people into being halfway decent. it’s not possible.
Is this the woman who also killed that bear for sport?
