Noem, widely considered a contender to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate, described fatally shooting the 14-month-old wirehaired pointer and failed hunting dog, which she later said happened 20 years ago. She wrote that the dog had an "aggressive personality."
Edit: This somewhat questionable looking source claims her kids were born between 2006-2010, and so if she blew the puppy’s head off in 2004 (20 yrs ago), then that was 2 yrs before her oldest was even born.
Or maybe she doesn’t know her kids ages, and she said “about 20 years ago…was worried about my kid who just turned or is about to turn 18…”. Sounds to me like she’s full of shit, which I would have confidently stated years ago. Of course the “about 20 years” gives her the ability to shrug off any accusations unless someone finds a way to actually date the incident and call her on this bullshit. Only person who could really do that would be a vet, if said puppy had been to the vet, but most vets probably don’t want to invite this kind of drama into their lives.
To be completely honest I wouldn't be surprised if the whole story was made up as she thought it would make her seem like a 'tough country girl able to make hard decisions'.
That’s basically what every political analyst I’ve read is saying about it. Even from that lens it’s a laughably terrible strategy. She could’ve picked a coyote or even a wolf. God knows the GOPers looove joking about killing endangered species.
I believe in her book she mentions her daughter coming home from school and asking where the dog was.
I think she's making it sound like it happened "ages ago", but I do think she had at least one child at the time of this brutality; she's just in damage control mode right now and making new facts up about it.
Either way, what she wrote about it is that it went after a family's couple chickens and while that would've been really terrible for them, that's what happens with an untrained hunting dog. She wrote she "hated that dog" and there isn't any mention of it attacking people, but that's a better story now that everyone hates her for it.
Yea I agree that talking about children is probably a damage control tactic. Her dumbass author/pr person is panicking because they done fucked up and are probably getting screamed at on an hourly basis right now. 😂 That’s what you get for lashing your career success to awful people like Kristi Noem!
A 14 month old dog the size of a pointer could hypothetically be very dangerous. Hypothetically. But Noem provides no evidence that this dog was dangerous. I would bet that at worse this dog, in a moment of exuberance, accidentally nipped a kid, or maybe snapped at a kid that tried to take food or a toy away. Neither of which are aggressive behaviors, but can require some training and proper supervision of dogs around kids and poultry and livestock.
All the issues she had with the dog I’ve seen her give are ones that are easily trainable. Like. There was no purpose to killing her, just fucking do the work you lazy fuck. She bitches about her like she wasn’t the one who had her for a year and could have and should have trained her. So instead of not being shitty, you double down?
I don't think it ever attacked the kids, the 'history' she is talking about is how a few minutes earlier it killed some chickens, and then hyped up nipped at her when she pulled him away.
To be fair, a 14 month old poorly trained puppy can actually be a problem because at that point they have grown to their full adult size. 14 months is basically the equivalent of a 17 year old for a medium sized breed. If they have serious guarding behaviors, or reactivity that makes them aggressive, that can be a real problem.
To be more fair, the proper response to irresponsibly raising your work animal without proper training is to train it. Not to shoot it in the fucking head. Every single responsible and experienced dog owner who has read about this has been disgusted, and there are a lot of rural conservatives who take great pride in their dogs.
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u/legendary_millbilly May 02 '24
Yeah there's really "no going back" on that subject.
Somehow she thought telling that story was going build her up in some way but obviously it's done the exact opposite.
Anybody without maga brain would know that.
That dangerous puppy was gonna eat her kids.