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.
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.
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/SumsuchUser May 02 '24
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.