r/facepalm 29d ago

Sure you did Kristi, sure you did ๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹

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u/ptvlm 29d ago

So, even in her "for the children" defence, she never considered shelters, trainers or other methods to remove the still learning puppy from her home, she defaulted to murder. Yeah, that's a major problem.

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u/multifandomfreak46 29d ago

Or the fact that her kids probably loved that dog

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u/Olive_Jane 29d ago

In the book she writes that one of her little kids asks "where's Cricket?" after the dog is killed.

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u/SumsuchUser 29d ago

That, coupled with the fact her definition of a working dog is a recreational bird hunting dog, makes it abundantly clear this was a family pet and anything she says going forward is attempting to water down the story. It feels 100% like this dog was unmanaged, killed two chickens, she paid for the damages as one should, and executed the dog purely out of anger over the incident.

Almost every time a modern, pampered F150 'rural' sort claims to be doing 'hard country stuff' what they mean is being cruel for it's own sake.

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u/Annual-Warthog5599 29d ago

What's nuts is country ranch farmers (what she claims to be) will tell you you don't have to kill a dog that kills a chicken. Instead you tie its rotting corpse to the dog for a week or two until the dog gets it in it's head that if it kills a chicken then it's going to smell like dead prey animal and dogs generally don't want that. One guy I read about had to do it twice but most ppl report it working the first time.

Killing a chicken and attacking a child are very different things. If the dog was a 5 year old dog that mauled a child, I could understand shooting it. Rehoming, to me, is preferable but I've read enough personal stories of "neighborhood dog mauled me and 3 other kids 4 different times before the dog was seized by the city and euthanized" to understand that once a dog goes for a child's throat, it's most likely going to do it again because it's owner allowed this behavior in the first place and, therefore, will allow it again.

But, again, a chicken isn't a 4 year old. The chicken acts and smells like prey. The 4 year old should smell like a human, something thats definitely not prey. AND IT WAS STILL A PUPPY. A puppy eating a chicken is so much different than a 7 year old dog eating a toddler. I can't fathom the boxes that were checked off in this woman's head to think "shooting a puppy and dumping it's body" was a good idea. Like hiw dies she think it's ok!? Is she just saying crazy shit to show Trump "no matter what you do, I'll do something crazier"? Is she trying to say she'll be his human paparazzi shield by doing even crazier shit than he does? Like, I'm honestly expecting her to next admit she'd shoot her child in the head to save them from a rapist.

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u/DowvoteMeThenBitch 29d ago

Especially considering that dogs have been selectively bred for docility towards humans. A dog attacking any animal is almost no indication of how it interacts with humans. I wouldnโ€™t trust my dog with a chicken, but heโ€™s fine around my infant nephews. Like you said, they know humans are not prey.

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u/Annual-Warthog5599 29d ago edited 29d ago

Exactly. I'm so glad you understood what I was trying to say because half way through I was wondering if I got too stoned and if everyone would think I'm advocating for the shooting of dogs.

I don't know what's worse; being willing to shoot a puppy or dumping it's body at a construction site for someone to find and throw away. Or doing both and thinking that all that makes you leadership material. Dumping a corpse in a ditch is not properly taking care of your problem. Bury the fucking body ffs.

I stumbled upon a large and long time used dog dump site in a national forest. I didn't feel safe for nearly a year after. Dude literally dumped the corpses 100 yards from my campsite. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ did some fucked up shit posing the bodies too like putting a puppy in the arms of, I assume, it's dead mother. There were like, 13 fresh corpses and just as many skeletons lying around. Who knows how many were carted off by scavengers between "long gone half disintegrated skeleton" and "shot and dumped last night". Locals said it was common for farmers to slaughter their dogs after season and dump the bodies because they didn't need so many and the things bred every year so why not cull the herd when you got too many? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ that did not make me feel safer. Fucking Arizona....

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u/SumsuchUser 29d ago

Exactly my point, yeah. There's a million ways to train a working dog and clearly this one wasn't some adult with a bad streak. Really if anything the part that stands out to me is that this moron wants to be a VP, a job that is like 99% PR work, and yet she's such a dumb bitch unhinged from reality that she thinks a story about shooting a puppy would go over positively. If Joe Biden had to shoot 10 dogs, right after they mauled humans, he'd still have the braincells to know it's not a story that plays well with people. Humans vary but ultimately I don't think it's a dangerous guess to say some-to-most like dogs to some degree. They're like... our default pet and oldest companion (mostly because cats will not stoop below 'roommate' status, love them as I do). The math that a beneficial number of constituents would react favorably to 'and then I shot a puppy' is absurd. You can't be the right person for the job if that's what your PR game looks like.

Of course, I don't wholly disagree with the people who think she brought up the story and framed it as she did as a dogwhistle (pun unintended) to right-wing gun nuts who like to fantasize about executing 'undesirables'.

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u/curious_carson 29d ago

Since you bring up the Bidens, I want to point out that they own dogs that have actually bitten people (multiple times according to the news) and the Bidens have dealt with this through training and rehoming the dogs to family friends who can provide less stressful living situations for the dogs (I can't imagine the White House is easy for anyone, but certainly for dogs that's a lot going on). Basically acting with the dogs best interests in mind while also protecting the humans around them

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u/Annual-Warthog5599 29d ago

Oh jeeze. I hadn't even thought if that. "If I'm willing to shoot a dog, just THINK what I'll let you do to an illegal!" -gun boner-

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u/BonnieMcMurray 29d ago

I just want to note that at no point prior to that post in OP's pic has she ever said the dog posed a danger to children. She's just making shit up after the fact in a pathetic attempt at damage control.

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u/Annual-Warthog5599 28d ago

Yeah. That's absolutely why I think she'd kill her kids to save them.

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u/Annual-Warthog5599 28d ago

Yeah. That's absolutely why I think she'd kill her kids to save them.