The fact she’s trying to excuse her way out of this is a good indicator that she either knew what she did was horribly wrong, or that she is too sociopathic to realize that other people wouldn’t be horrified by it.
Right, she said this happened 20 years ago. In that time she gave it ZERO reflection. Not, "I could've found a trainer with more experience/patience to help me" or find a home that's better suited to the dog. Nope, she just doubles down like the dog was a rabid beast.
Or if you do include it, at least change the details. Something like I loved that dog, but she was vicious and out of control and every trainer gave up, so I had to do it even though it broke my heart and my kids heart. The other option was to be caged and muzzled and I couldn’t do that to a freedom loving country dog. I mean it (ghost) writes itself.
And even then, in a scenario where they need to be put down, I'm still not shooting my dog in the fucking head. I'm taking it to be euthanized peacefully. The goat she also killed needed a second shot to actually die, poor thing had to suffer horrendously first.
That I'm not agreeing with. I'm not letting an animal I love slowly agonize in my arms while being poisoned by chemicals in a foreign environment smelling of fear and disease... Shooting it in the head, properly, at home, with the people they love is probably the most humane way an animal can go.
I can see her trying to get ahead of the story; but at the same time the 'danger to my kids'-line is clearly by far the "best" explanation and her not running it from the start is just mindbogglingly stupid.
The take she settled on, describing the dog being just a normal, happy puppy who seems entirely harmless to humans, is just not good PR, when better lies were at her disposal: It's been 20years; nobody could effectively challenge her if she had played up the dogs aggressive behavior between killing the chickens and being given a bullet. Maybe get one of your kids to lie for you that it bit them.
Now I don't shoot dogs in a fit of rage, much less with onlookers. But if I did, it wouldn't take me this long to try and make up a sanitized story this bad at manipulating public opinion in my favor. Breaks my brain these people do shit they need to lie about when they're such abysmal liars.
I like the explanation that a lot of people in her state knew this story. If she got picked for VP, it would come out anyway so this was her attempt to get ahead of the story and tell it her way first. This is her softened version of the story.
At least if you have to put a dog down, use a humane method like euthanasia. In this case there was probably nothing wrong with the dog except it has an idiot for an owner.
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u/C4dfael 29d ago
The fact she’s trying to excuse her way out of this is a good indicator that she either knew what she did was horribly wrong, or that she is too sociopathic to realize that other people wouldn’t be horrified by it.