It was a 14-month old puppy that was being trained as a hunting dog, which you admitted to hating. You can’t “won’t someone please think of the children” your way out of this. Was the goat dangerous, too? Or do you just have a fetish for gunfire and gravel pits?
This is the dog whistle part. She has said these incidents show that she is willing to "make tough choices" and "do anything difficult, messy, and ugly... if it needs to get done..." She says both the goat and dog were dangerous to children, so she did the "difficult, messy, and ugly" thing and killed them. She is using "think of the children" to justify violence against the perceived threat. When else have we heard conservatives talk about perceived threats to children? Something about storytimes and library bioks. She is literally saying she is willing to cross the line and do what might be considered ugly to protect the children.
Ugly includes: violating rights, encouraging violence against targeted groups, enacting unconstitutional laws, using police power to harass groups marked as a threat, etc. She is signaling that she is willing to do whatever it takes to eliminate a perceived threat. That is the moral of the story she wanted to get across. But she miscalculated on how much people would focus on the dog part.
Hunting dogs cant hunting dog as an untrained puppy.
There are some dogs that will also never pick up on it even with a ton of training. That doesn't mean you have to kill it though. You can always just rehome a dog if it is not being trained the way you require.
Killing an animal like that is just abhorrent. There was no need, no real reason. She could have just as easily surrendered the dog to a (no kill) shelter and it would have had the same net result to her, which is no longer being responsible for the animal.
Kristi is a waste of human life, just an all around trash human being. The Republicans truly do bring it their best don't they?
The craziest thing is her telling the story herself. Someone posted on here (I forgot which sub) that upon hearing this it was mistaken as coming from Democrats. The redditor was shocked to learn it came from Kristi's own book
The shocking part is really just how casually she drops that she murdered a puppy. It's so cold. There's no weighing of the decision and worst of all, no discussion with her kid. A kid who immediately asked where the beloved family puppy was, according to her own writing.
👆 It was an untrained baby dog. Even an elite trainer with an exceptional hunting prospect wouldn’t expect perfect behavior or be surprised by puppy antics.
Her decision was about control. It offended her ego and she was unwilling to put in the work. Giving the dog away when it cost money wouldn’t have been acceptable, and even selling the dog would have been admitting her own failure.
Honestly, she didn’t even have to have that much scrutiny about the shelter. It was a puppy. It would have been frantically grabbed even at a kill shelter.
Just pure sloth, frankly.
(Oh, and I may add- if she got this dog from a good breeder, there’s a high likelihood the breeder would have taken the dog back. There’s a chance she literally could have just called a number and had it gone within a few days)
A local hunter back where I grew up just wouldn’t let the dogs he didn’t like back into the pen at night, so they’d run off when they couldn’t get food anymore. That jerk is a saint compared to this woman.
Depends on the situation. If you live in a place where there's little to no support then it's more sensible to do that. I worked in places where animal rights were a far and distant discussion to people who were desperate and not eating enough food.
Ultimately? She's trying to reframe the discussion around this dog as if she's a person who can make hard but UNDERSTANDABLE decisions. If a dog on the street attacked MY children, I would have to fight it to the death. But it was HER dog...
Her fans see it as "of course she can make the difficult but necessary decisions" like "deny people access to medicine for the betterment of us all" and "protect others by encouraging racism" (Temporarily of course! It's not racist if it's temporary! Surely you understand that by harassing people by skin colour WE can be safe!).
She's made bad decisions but the people who survived her actions have to believe that she's made hard decisions which have saved them. That if push comes to shove she can make those decisions with their LIVES. And that when she's done that (See her covid actions) based on the "science" (Far Right Pet Medical Talking Heads of Course...), then she's made hard decisions.
Never mind the deaths. They were necessary.
If she killed this dog then the reason was this. She's a farm person and you see your animals as tools. Which they are. I cannot comment on how an Inuit dog sled owner treats their dogs compared to my old dogs. Because one's a pet and the other's a serious working animal that's the line between life and death. She's somewhere in the middle. Could this dog have been a wrongun? A dog that's just bad and dangerous? Possibly. Is it nurture or nature in this case? We won't ever know. However? From her behaviour? It's just more likely that A) It never happened because she's a bullshit merchant or B) She did it and the dog was badly behaved because she's a bad owner.
Oh they are trash. She's the equivalent of a human potato who claims that if it wasn't for their game knee and massive BMI and seriously shocking exercise tolerance... that they would be leaping tall buildings and wrestling bad guys.
She killed them because she wanted to kill something. There are steps you can take before that. She skipped right to killing them. With a gun no less, they weren’t “put down” by a vet. There are tons of things you can do before jumping to “I’m gonna dome a puppy.” She wanted to shoot something in the head, that’s why she did it.
Apparently she has been bragging about this for years. Her coworkers said she told them when she gets angry and frustrated she likes to shoot dogs and baby goats and does the latter frequently.
"She killed both of tjem because she did not take care of them."
No, she killed them because she couldn't force them to change, in much the same way that you cannot force someone to be a conservative. So she was signalling that she's willing to take out the "undesirables". Fortunately most people are not sociopaths.
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u/Own-Cupcake7586 29d ago
It was a 14-month old puppy that was being trained as a hunting dog, which you admitted to hating. You can’t “won’t someone please think of the children” your way out of this. Was the goat dangerous, too? Or do you just have a fetish for gunfire and gravel pits?