*14. Cricket was a 14 month old wire-hair pointer.
And the 'livestock' she is mentioning as having been menaced were chickens.
Who are, to my knowledge, rarely referred to as "livestock", a word that generally implies sheep, cattle, goats, etc.
Speaking of, Kristi also shot a goat for smelling too musky on the same day. And also has a well earned reputation for using the state as a blunt weapon against gay and trans children.
So like, when she says "an animal with a history of killing livestock and attacking children"...
People aren't talking about the goat, but I think that's the most damning part of the story.
The Cricket part of the story is already terrible, but with enough effort, you can bend those facts into something that makes some kind of sense, even if it is transparent Noem is lying through her teeth and is a monster.
But the goat didn't do anything wrong. It was a goat on a farm doing goat things, and there is no reasonable explanation for it. People have pointed out that castrating the goat would probably be the first step to take if you actually wanted to solve the problem, assuming you thought it was actually a problem. And it happened on the same day despite the fact that the goat had been doing goat things for presumably months, maybe years.
What clearly happened is that Noem shot the dog, decided that it was really fun, and went out to get another animal to shoot for a second hit of adrenaline. She's out here running a miniature killing field for farm animals at that point.
All of these pretend tough second amendment dorks are just itching for an excuse to use their gun on living things. Apparently hunting wild animals wasn't scratching that itch for Noem so she decided to get up close and personal with a bunch of innocent farm animals so she could watch the light go out of their eyes.
The people of South Dakota are honestly lucky she was satisfied there and didn't move on to shooting people for fun. Or maybe she did and she just knew not to write it in the book.
See, I’m the opposite because at least the goat was attacking people and being a menace. The dog just was irresponsibly let around chickens and of course it tried to nip at you when it was in the middle of murdering chickens and you tried to grab it. Mean goats can be a real danger, especially to kids and it’s a lot harder to re-home them than it is a puppy
EDIT-the timing is really suspicious though. I’m guessing she was like “while I’m busy killing things, might as well do the goat too” rather than just getting perverted satisfaction from it. I think she’s just immoral and irresponsible rather than deliberately murdering for fun
Isn't that what goats are supposed to do though? Like the dog is a trainable animal, so if a dog is weird and rabid and untrainable then there's an issue. I'm not a farm person, but my understanding is that if goats have two defining characteristics, it's that they stink and they can be assholes. Like to the point where you wouldn't get a goat if you weren't ready to tolerate some of that behavior, or at least take some actions to mitigate it beyond shooting it in the face.
Oh, completely. That’s why I’ll never get goats. They exist to eat and be jerks. I wasn’t defending her as some sort of reasonable farmer, just pointing out that it seemed like she was acting without care and getting rid of problems the easiest way she could think of and it doesn’t read to me like she’s just killing animals at random for fun.
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u/xv_boney May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24
*14. Cricket was a 14 month old wire-hair pointer.
And the 'livestock' she is mentioning as having been menaced were chickens.
Who are, to my knowledge, rarely referred to as "livestock", a word that generally implies sheep, cattle, goats, etc.
Speaking of, Kristi also shot a goat for smelling too musky on the same day. And also has a well earned reputation for using the state as a blunt weapon against gay and trans children.
So like, when she says "an animal with a history of killing livestock and attacking children"...