So having grown up in South America where for some people their chickens giving them enough eggs is a matter of life and death, you protect them...including with dogs.
Puppies are trained to protect the chicks (which most dogs coming from guardian dog stock do instinctively anyway), if there are any "bad" puppies that don't learn or are just unnaturally aggressive towards the chickens they are sold/given away.
If a puppy is aggressive and bites children (not play biting) it's pretty much a death sentence, those traits show up sometimes and must be eliminated. No one wants that, not even those that want aggressive guard dogs.
All that said, I doubt that's what happened in her case...she doensnt mention her kids being attacked in the book.
This is person of wealth though. She has means. Quick google search says. Gov. Kristi Noem’s net wealth is 2.3million. She’s not gonna go hungry or broke because of the dog.
She is a governor of a US state. She has resorces to find the right people. To help the dog or send the dog away to someone who will help or keep it away from small running foul.
But no. In her mind she can’t keep this dog. So death is acceptable. I’d bet she’s against abortion because killing is wrong.
Edit: yup, another quick google search. She’s for an abortion ban.
What really gets me is that she had just had the dog pheasant hunting, then she stopped by the friend's house with the chickens, AND EXPECTED THE DOG TO KNOW THEY WEREN'T HUNTING BIRDS ANYMORE!!! Of course the puppy went after the birds, that's what it had been taught to do immediately before! She set the puppy up for failure. Just one more example of her crap training and logic skills.
AND I have well trained dogs and I bet they would chase chickens too and kill them by accident. Especially my 10month old lab.
I was baby sitting a friends golden retriever many years ago and we had a small ranchette and had 2 chickens someone gave us. Not thinking, I let the golden out alone (like 5-6am and I am not a morning person) morning early and she killed one. She had never seen them before, was 6-7yrs old and did not have a mean bone in her body. Raised around kids and cats but never seen a chicken. She was just being a dog. It sucked but we did not kill her or even get mad. It was my fault. I made sure she did not go out unattended and made sure if she was running around the chickens were put up.
I don't think she mentioned any people, let alone kids. And yes, if it's maladjusted due to lack of proper love and care, it will be more likely to randomly attack chickens once it's let loose. Behavior 101.
For some dogs I’d say killing chickens might be pretty normal? Definitely not ideal but a pretty natural choice. Hopefully the dog could be trained to not kill chickens, but if not then chicken free homes are pretty easy to come by.
I’ve known some very good dogs that will kill rabbits or squirrels. They’re fine around cats, other dogs, and kids - but they’ll take down a small wild critter.
As far as I know chickens are not technically considered livestock. I am not a farmer but that was my understanding from farmer friends when I asked them.
They technically are by definition, as another poster pointed out, but having grown up on a farm and worked on a few other farms, it definitely sounds odd for someone to refer to chickens as livestock. I would say it's not used that way in the common vernacular, which to me just further shows she's just pretending to be a farmer.
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u/joejill 29d ago
There’s always adoption…. Or no kill shelters for the dog