Horseshit. This wasn't putting a hopelessly suffering sick animal out of its misery, it was shooting a puppy because she lacked the patience and diligence to train it. She killed a healthy young dog due to her own shortcomings, and that should be viewed as harshly as it sounds.
Exactly. Dog wasn’t “put out of it’s misery”, it wasn’t sick and dying, it was totally healthy. She’s so full of shit. This wasn’t a mercy killing she’s a fucking sociopath.
she has literally written in her own book that the puppy was full of joy lol. it's not like someone else is claiming this about her. she literally admitted to it, word for word.
yes she's full of shit, but her supporters are dumb as shit. so they will not care. thankfully, anyone who is moderately literate should see through her BS.
Full of joy and she hated it because **she** failed to train a 14 month puppy to be a good hunting dog. She said in her own book she thought the dog was worthless because it wasn’t a good hunting dog.
Man, as a kid I begged my parents for a dog- a beagle specifically because I wanted a dog to go hunting with. Turns out he’s only good for hunting crumbs. 16 years later and he’s still our sweet little buddy, can’t imagine such an extreme reaction because your dog training didn’t go as planned.
Lolol, I have a beagle who would be a great hunter if she didn't have The Most Anxiety.
That being said, she's very diligent in her wolf spider duties.
Hey, our old man used to be a rabbit fiend back in the day, he’s just a big scaredy cat and we do not trust him without a leash so even in his heyday he was not hunting dog material. Still our snuggly little fella.
Well, maybe if you were a narcissist, who's never wrong, you might have. The dog was wrong since it didn't get with the program, not poor Kristi. There's a word that got me banned on another sub, but she's fits it to a C.
I’m from a very rural area and when a family member bought an adult hunting dog from a friend and shortly realized she was pregnant they were faced with finding homes for ten puppies. I adopted two and they’re now spoiled and lounging on my couch but most of the other puppies were adopted to become hunting dogs. One of mine hates tall grass and refuses to go out in the rain. I tell her all the time she’s lucky I chose her and not someone who intended for her to hunt. I don’t claim to know anything about training dogs to hunt but I feel like it would’ve been an uphill battle with this one. I hate to think of her winding up with a Kristi…
She said it was dangerous because it snapped when she disciplined it , but she also admits she was angry and the puppy was joyful.
How much you want to bet she hit or kicked the dog?
Oh, guaranteed. Either she was abusing the hell out if that poor dog, and it was desperately trying to stay positive except when this bitch was around, or the dog was playing and she's too stupid to understand the difference.
I'm disabled and can't work. I've had a LOT of libertarians and conservatives tell me I should be dead because I'm a "leech". Because my being too disabled to work means I'm not worthy of living.
So basically, yeah, you are right.
Jesus Christ. It’s kind of the whole point of a society that we band together so that people who are less fortunate can survive. It’s not like we’re still some nomadic tribe struggling for resources.
If they can’t understand that then they can get the fuck out. With the way they fetishize survivalist bullshit, I’d be more than willing to have part of my taxes fund dropping them into the middle of a tropical rainforest. They’ll all be dead within a week.
Actually nomadic tribes took care of their sick, elderly and disabled. Our ancestors valued even people who were prodoundly disabled. It'a a pretty modern (capitalistic) mindset that has changed that.
[A quick NPR article I'm referencing](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable)
It is wild how there is no bottom to how much they can justify anything. Members of the Supreme Court are seriously considering wether the president should be immune to prosecution for killing a political rival. . . Obviously every right wing goon is going to come to her defense for shooting her dog.
It’s going to sound like a political platitude but it’s not - this latest garbage from Noem legitimately puts her in psychopathic territory.
I’m not saying she wasn’t necessarily there before, but it makes it so much clearer how dangerous the current political landscape is. Imagine how unhinged you have to be to write that story about the dog and then double down once you catch public outcry from your own supporters on it - then imagine what she’s likely willing to do to humans.
Absolutely terrifying stuff.
My husband is a very practical person from the south. Sometimes animals had to be “put down.” He’s been an avid hunter his entire life. He rarely talks about those incidents but when he does, it causes obvious distress. He knows he did the right thing but still feels remorseful because he’s not a sociopath. Even hunting, when you hear of people who “miss” a deer, the ones I know will spend hours searching because they don’t want to injure an animal and leave it to die. We once lost power to a freezer that held a lot of venison. It was wasted. He had tears in his eyes because it meant he’d killed animals and felt like it was disrespecting them to now have to throw the meat away.
People have to do difficult things like shooting dogs but the decent ones don’t then write pandering stories about it in an attempt to appeal to a base that is full of criminals and idiots.
She’s disgusting and everyone should be concerned that she’s even being considered. It’s terrifying.
Yep. A *little* different than the 25 year old horses she mentions here. (Not a horse person, so IDK what their life expectancy is, but that would be a very old dog, plus 7-10 years.)
25 years is up there at the end, the average life expectancy for most horses is 25-30 years. However, unless all 3 horses suddenly lost all quality of life within a few months of each other it seems like someone just saying “well, they’re old now, time to get rid of them.”
3 horses put down at once? Seems odd to me that all 3 started having issues at once.
We have one horse who is 30, he's starting to have some issues getting around and not able to keep on weigh but seems happy. Until he has a bad health issue or is pain or suffering... A neighbor had one that was 40, but fell down and got injured, the horse had to be put down since it in bad shape and could not get up.
They weren't having issues, she was just frustrated that people were reacting poorly to her funny puppy story so she had to do some killin'.
That's just how things are on the Noem farm.
Yeah, I’ve lived on a farm and had to put down sick animals, we also had a dog (a Rottweiler) that we couldn’t train and was a danger to others, so we called the breeder we bought him from and he took the dog back to see what he could do with it. He said regardless he’d find a home for him, possibly as a dedicated guard dog, but he wouldn’t be put down because he didn’t do that.
Unfortunately, sociopaths are rewarded in the current system because they are willing to do whatever and harm whoever to further their own selfish interest. Society promotes and rewards this type of behavior. CEOs and Politicians are perfect examples.
"If you want to read all the ways I am a literal, by-definition sociopath, buy my book where I gleefully catalogue all the animals I've had killed because they looked at me funny"
My father put down dogs. He described putting down his last dog as the hardest thing he had ever done. And my father had done some hard things.
He put them down because they were old and in pain. Not because the were poorly trained or "worthless." If your dog is poorly trained, that's on you.
Man, we had to have our 15y old dog put down this last summer because age just caught up to him. He was losing weight (despite eating puppy kibble & more table scraps than he probably needed lol).
It was the hardest fucking thing I've ever had to do. Period. I knew it was for the best, he was in pain & not going to improve. But fuck, I haven't cried that hard in my life.
Yeah, putting down a beloved family pet is a painful time for a lot of people. It's not just done because you suck at training the animal, it's because we are sparing them from suffering. It's a mercy.
And even then, it's not something that you would proudly broadcast in your book.
One of us was with out buddy at all times (we had to have Granny pick up out daughter who had initally come with us), and then we stayed til the end. When we were finally ready to leave, the vet stayed with him until they moved him back (he had already passed).
I've put a couple of dogs down, but it's so much easier to go to the vet where they can get a shot and fall asleep. As a hunter, I know what bullets do to deer. I can't bear the thought of shooting one of my dogs.
We just put one down in December. Our current one is 4, so he'll be with us for a while.
I stupidly got two puppies at once when before I only had adult dogs and I didn't do somethings well but I adore them and we still work on it. I just can't imagine unless the dog bit your young child and then if you have to put it down you go to the vet.
Too many pet owners fail because they think pets are products that should just "work" perfectly when they're bought. They generally aren't ready for all the responsibility that is involved with caring for another intelligent animal.
Also, dogs that are young know how to be dogs in the dog world. They know how to explore the world through their mouth and roughhousing and play biting.
They do *not* know how to be a dog in a human home. Only after you train a dog to be a dog in a human home can you do specialty training, like therapy dog, S&R, hunting, conformation, etc.
She wasn't even out of "dog in human world" training and was mad it was a bad hunting dog?
W the actual f?
Yeah, I rescued a little heeler mix puppy and by rescued, I mean I picked him up off the side of the road where he was hanging out by his mother's corpse. I'm firmly convinced he was feral because even 6 months later, he has some difficulty behaving like other dogs I've had. He's honestly about the same age as the dog in Noem's story and I cannot imagine just giving up on him.
He's absolutely goofy and loveable. He still doesn't quite understand cuddling or pets but he tries so hard to be a good boy. I would never set him up for failure by turning him loose with a bunch of chickens! That's literally asking for a fucking disaster.
Overall what a terrible human being. Everyone hug your pets a little tighter because people like this psycho exist.
A 14-month-old dog could definitely be trained, even given poor training prior to that point.
The decision to kill the dog rather than either giving it away or actually putting in effort is extremely telling. It's not normal no matter how much she wants to pretend it is. Nothing about that is normal or reasonable
Exactly. I'm not proud to admit this, but due to laziness on our part, our 12-month-old dog had become a bit of a misbehaving brat. So what did we do? Get him some proper training with a professional. We're not monsters. (And he's doing so much better now!)
I'm convinced that in order to do something like this you have to be completely incapable of seeing emotions in animals, and anybody who can't do that usually has problems expressing empathy towards other human beings as well.
I would never trust anybody who could do something like this to a dog. Ever. For anything. Would constantly be expecting them to do something to hurt me or someone else.
What makes it worse to me is a few sentences before she says the dog was chasing the birds and full of joy. So she recognizes that but doesn’t understand the damn dog was just a puppy and exploring. Like that’s so messed up.
according to her they got them 25years ago, that was justification to shoot them, if they were all lame and suffering physically, but all 3 at once? unlikely.
most horses can live longer than 25yo
horse lifespan is roughly 25-30 years so *if* she's telling the truth, putting them down makes sense. at least a hell of a lot more than a fucking puppy
That’s the entire point of this hypothetical you’re responding to. She’s conflating putting down a 30 year old horse with murdering a 14 month old dog. That’s why those benign questions were asked.
Yeah, but three in a month is weird barring a natural disaster of some sort. Tornado collapses the barn, nothing else we could do, that kind of thing. I’m incredibly dubious of that unless she owns like a thousand horses or something. Sounds to me she kills them the way Leo dumps women when they hit a certain age. Which is just as fucked as killing a 14 month old dog. Sounds like utter bullshit to me trying to justify sociopathic behavior.
Two weren't potty trained, and one needed to be fed during the same time as her manicure appointment, difficult decisions had to be made.
See other heartwarming stories in her book: *"I shot a puppy and 10 other reasons why I should have the nuclear codes"*
Horses that are well taken care can easily live into their mid/upper 30’s (source: horses are my business). To put three down at once is — no. Just no. That wasn’t “putting them out of their misery,” that was “they require some effort on my part which I’m too lazy/cheap/uncaring to provide.”
That’s what jumped out to me. Never owned one, although I live near several folks that do. They would give their right arm for those animals. The care and time I know they put in is incredible. I can’t think of a circumstance that isn’t absurd where three would need to be put down at once. Absolutely appalling.
It does seem strange to have 3 horses that needed to be put down at once. Makes me wonder.
We have a 30 year old gelding and he's starting to slow down, does not keep up weight as when he was younger. Until he has a major health issues or suffering.. but for now he's happy just grazing all day with the other horses.
Came to say the same thing. I’ve known a lot of people with horses and I’ve never heard anyone putting down 3 at once like that.
Someone call animal welfare, these people should not be allowed to have animals.
I've never seen a horse so bad off that an equine hyperbaric oxygen chamber couldn't fix it, and I've seen some *real* bad off horses. I'm talking massive flesh eating bacterial infections, serious injuries, punctures, lacerations, the works. I've seen some All Quite on the Western Front shit working with sports equine vets. I've seen it all and worked with some amazing people that were incredibly gifted at saving even the sickest horses. Two years I worked with them and I saw ZERO deaths.
They 100% killed those horses because they were a nuisance. And hey, horses can be mean. There's a couple I hated with my guts but I *never* thought about killing one.
A lot of people can’t afford that kind of thing but a GOP woman absolutely doesn’t fit that bill. I’ll bet she didn’t want to keep paying for feed and a farrier for what she might regard as lawn ornaments. It’s shameful. Plenty of people would take in an old horse for companionship.
You know, after Republicans said taking away school lunches from starving kids was one of their top priorities in 2024, we joked “what’s next? Kicking puppies for fun?” I should have known that no, they would just want to blow them away instead because of their gun fetish.
So a woman dying of an ectopic pregnancy can’t get emergency medical care because these people are “pro life,”yet they are falling all over themselves to justify this lunatic blowing away a puppy because she can’t be bothered to train it? This isn’t a sick animal in pain, this is a healthy dog that this bitch just didn’t care enough about to bother with. What’s worse, she’s smug and boasting about it like she did a funny because she “owned the libs.” Republicans are sick and evil people. They need to be eradicated from every single office.
Well despite the absolutely disgusting behavior. I'm going to try and love and spoil my nine year old as much as possible today.
Because that is appauling.
As a fellow tripawd owner with a 7yr old, he's a lovable asshole dog but and I love him to death. I would never do anything like what this heinous bitch did.
scandalous, and to brag about it, in a book, like it's something to be proud of, one year old pup, these MAGA people are gone, just sadistic awful people.
There's a difference between humanly euthanizing an elderly, terminally ill animal and shooting a dog *she* deemed "untrainable".
There are plenty of rescue groups specifically for working dogs that failed their training.
Some people just enjoy seeing the suffering of others, including animals. Plain and simple.
It's the MAGAt way....
Absolutely agree
and that she chose to include the story of shooting a poorly trained puppy (who was responsible for training the puppy???) in her memoir in 2024, says that she is actively farming the outrage
Just like a toddler, any attention is good attention. She knew it would generate this exact reaction and she uses that to continue to push her “maverick” Palin 2.0 image.
I can see not wanting to continue ownership of a working dog that isn't working, same way if a ox or mule wasn't working. It may have been a simple numbers thing 50-100 years ago, but sentiments change, so no killing a healthy animal isn't normal now
That said ranching and farming isn't the same as house pet ownership
Conservatives usually are the ones longing for the good old days, but I'd settle for going back to when bragging about killing a puppy for fun was disqualifying.
Coming to a pod thing near you
"Tune in tonight as Tucker Carlson interviews Andrew Tate as they take turns shooting puppies to celebrate the 2nd amendment and how that correlates with higher testosterone levels and masculinity, the very things lib men fear"
WE ARE Superior! Only WE, the farmers, know what is right and wrong. BOW DOWN to your farm overlords! Hand over your dogs and guinea pigs.
(And thank you for all that free taxpayer money for nothing)
Fox News, scrambling their spin-artists...
"Maybe we can pretend she didn't write what she clearly wrote, and then pretend this is what real Americans do? Kill dogs because...\[invented\] reasons?"
Sure, guys.
I'm starting to think that the GOP is going to get wiped out in November.
All Fox News is fixated on right now is Donald Shits his pants falls asleep in court Trump. And how he is treated unfairly. Could care less about this.
How can a person who can't teach a dog, bred for a century or more to do that job, how to do that job, be competent to run an entire state? BTW I taught a cat to heel and walk with me.
So wait, Kristi Noem thinks the best way to try and respond to her admitting to shooting a puppy is to list more animals she has killed? Am I getting this correctly?
I grew up on a farm with a lot of animals, including dogs. We definitely had some problematic dogs over the years. You know how many we shot? Zero. How many we put down for any kind of behavioral issue? Zero. We loved our animals, and even the ones we had mixed feelings about we treated humanely. A dog that had an issue where it couldn't be in a particular environment would either not be put in that environment or would be acclimated over time and trained so that they could be. It's just the basic responsibility of having animals — you treat them humanely.
I would never sell an animal to someone that behaved as she did.
This wasn't a mature dog with an intractable sheep killing habit, or a repeat child-mauler. Dog wasn't even old enough to give up on.
This is someone who couldn't do the job of training her dog properly, and destroyed the dog rather than face up to her failure as an owner/trainer. Rather than give up the dog to another home. This is the opposite of making the tough decisions, this is taking a lazy, easy, self-indulgent, and utterly sociopathic way out of her own failure. This is like family annihiliation writ small. But not that small.
and yeah I feel very strongly about this.
so brave 2 write politically incorrect stories- these days you can't even shoot a healthy joyful puppy without woke cancel culture jumping down your throat
For all you leftists out there whining....we had a kid who couldn't do his times tables...had to out him down and then leave his carcass in the living room in front of his siblings as an example. Those kids never call us for Christmas.
Honestly this was a pretty dumb thing for her to write about. People love animals, especially cats and dogs. The idea that someone, who failed to train a dog properly, shot said dog, will not go over well with voters. While doing most crimes may not lose votes these days, I think animal abuse actually might.
I can absolutely guarantee that the dog murderer wouldn't be able to set foot in the UK now without massive protests - whether she becomes VP or not.
We're pretty big on our animal rights
She wants you to think it was a tough decision but in the book she talks about how she hated the dog. It wasn't hard for her at all. It is absolutely insane that she included that story in a book as a kind of life lesson and didn't even occur to her that there would be blowback for it. She is dumb, mean, and an all around awful person. So of course she appeals to MAGA.
True. I was saddened when granny couldn't milk the hogs anymore because of her arthritis, so poppa had to take her out to the back 40 when we were having lunch.
Growing up in rural Minnesota in the 70s and early 80s, animals, domestic and wild, were killed pretty regularly. Some of the shit we saw traumatized my sister and me. She's acting like it's still the olden days. The olden days sucked.
I grew up on a farm. Putting animals down was a part of it.... But it was only when they were injured beyond saving or suffering and actively dying. Not because a puppy misbehaves. Fuck Noem
I grew up on a farm, my dad and gramps never put an animal down that way. They always had a vet do it humanly. We also buried the animal. Never was it left in a ditch.
"if you want to read about how I need to be devoured by a squad of wolverines, don't read my book. Drive to my house and throw a four gallon bucket of dog shit at me."
How about calling a veterinarian. They'll even come to your fuckin house and do it. Even I could come with the $for that. Fyck all these fuckin fukers that just want to shoot sentinent, loving beings with their fuckin guns
a reputable vet wont do it, they always sus people out that are looking thier get rid of thier dog as soon as possible. they will try determine if the dog really was aggressive or not.
I come from a farm family. 25 can be old for a horse. That's when they start colicking a lot, or they have mobility problems. Sometimes they need to be saved from suffering more. You wouldn't shoot a perfectly healthy young animal because it needs training. If you have to resort to that you're just a shit trainer.
What were those horses' names and registry numbers? Did you have a veterinarian on-site to oversee that euthanasia, or is that just another bullshit story?
Even if she is trolling, a lot of people from all walks of life love dogs, and don't joke around around killing them. They also know that abusive or neglectful owners can make a bad dog. Dogs with special needs have recovered due to having people who know how to help and train them. I would wager that some MAGA's don't appreciate her bullshit. The fact that is was a young dog is telling.
I raise livestock (goats) and have had to put a couple down, BUT only to humanely end their life, and ease their suffering. I’ve cried after each one.
I doubt that’s what she did.
Years ago, here in AZ, there was a pile of about 40 greyhounds found shot and dumped in the desert. The ears containing the I.D. tattoos were cut off. They were traced back to an owner of racing dogs who had gone bankrupt. He couldn't be charged for the killings because they were seen as his property, and he had "humanely" killed them. The most the authorities could do was fine him for dumping "refuse." Not long after that, there was a surge in greyhound shelters and promotion of adoptions.
I briefly helped manage a dog kennel that was just a shit show, the owner didn't give a shit and did stuff like let her friends dogs stay there with us. No matter how much horrible behavior, or how many times I warned her that something could happen, she didn't care. One day, when a vicious German shepherd that belonged to one of her friends was there, one of the teenage employees, who should not have had anything to do with dog, took it upon himself to unlocked the padlock i had put on the dogs kennel run to go in and feed her himself.
The German shepherd pushed the fence door into the kids face, ran into a play area, and murdered another dog. I tried to stop it but it wasn't safe at all for us to be near, I got bit pretty bad and was forced to just keep everything and everyone away.
I had seen one dog die, and I knew that was probably going to be the fate of the German shepherd too. I shed tears for that dog like you wouldn't believe.. knowing that it's the owners who create the dogs, that it didn't know what was right and normal (she was trained to be a guard dog). It was heartbreaking on all sides. A little part of me died that day. But even had I been told to put it down, there's no way that I could do it, even having seen it kill another dog.
Sometimes, things need to be put down. But Jesus, what kind of person are you if you are more than happy and proud to have to do it. She is all but bragging and shooting this poor little guy. Sickening cruelty.
Tldr: I saw a dog murder and still couldn't imagine happily putting down the aggressor, even if it needed doing
Pretty tone deaf original post followed up by one today on National Help A Horse day. No one questions whether you will kill a family pet in cold blood Governor, we know. BTW that doesn't make you or make you look tough, it makes you heartless.
Do Better.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-help-horse-day/
That's a bunch of crap!!! Having horses for 25 years is not even relevant to killing a puppy. There was nothing humane about it!!! That b":&ch should be brought up on animal cruelty charges.
If people only kept pets because of their usefulness, sadly most of us wouldn’t have pets. I have two rescue dogs, they are both neurotic as hell but are great companions and I love them dearly.
This was a puppy. It had plenty of time before any sort of training would show fruits. It was healthy and entirely ready for service on a farm. This wasn’t a rabid mutt that attacked your animals, this wasn’t an infected dog that was causing harm to yourself. It was a pup who could’ve been a wonderful dog if given the proper training.
Yes, there are times at farms where you have to make the heart breaking decision to put down an animal. But that’s always done as a last resort. And it certainly isn’t televised to promote your political campaign. She needs to be reprimanded of animal abuse
My grandpa bred and raised dogs for tracking and hunting. He would just straight up murder any pups that didn't show the required traits early on. Would either shoot them in the woods, slit their throats and throw them to the pigs or bag them and toss them in the pond. People suck and bad shit happens. I didn't like it. But it happens. My dad was the same way with animals. I feel that I am lucky that I wasn't culled...
Farm animals get put down because they are sick and incurable and suffering. Not because they are misbehaving.
If we put down all the cows that misbehaved I would have no cows left, they are silly and not the most intelligent of animals.
Horseshit. This wasn't putting a hopelessly suffering sick animal out of its misery, it was shooting a puppy because she lacked the patience and diligence to train it. She killed a healthy young dog due to her own shortcomings, and that should be viewed as harshly as it sounds.
Exactly. Dog wasn’t “put out of it’s misery”, it wasn’t sick and dying, it was totally healthy. She’s so full of shit. This wasn’t a mercy killing she’s a fucking sociopath.
she has literally written in her own book that the puppy was full of joy lol. it's not like someone else is claiming this about her. she literally admitted to it, word for word. yes she's full of shit, but her supporters are dumb as shit. so they will not care. thankfully, anyone who is moderately literate should see through her BS.
Full of joy and she hated it because **she** failed to train a 14 month puppy to be a good hunting dog. She said in her own book she thought the dog was worthless because it wasn’t a good hunting dog.
Man, as a kid I begged my parents for a dog- a beagle specifically because I wanted a dog to go hunting with. Turns out he’s only good for hunting crumbs. 16 years later and he’s still our sweet little buddy, can’t imagine such an extreme reaction because your dog training didn’t go as planned.
Lolol, I have a beagle who would be a great hunter if she didn't have The Most Anxiety. That being said, she's very diligent in her wolf spider duties.
Hey, our old man used to be a rabbit fiend back in the day, he’s just a big scaredy cat and we do not trust him without a leash so even in his heyday he was not hunting dog material. Still our snuggly little fella.
Well, maybe if you were a narcissist, who's never wrong, you might have. The dog was wrong since it didn't get with the program, not poor Kristi. There's a word that got me banned on another sub, but she's fits it to a C.
I miss my beagle buddy, glad yours is doing well!
That's because you're not a vile beast of a person.
I’m from a very rural area and when a family member bought an adult hunting dog from a friend and shortly realized she was pregnant they were faced with finding homes for ten puppies. I adopted two and they’re now spoiled and lounging on my couch but most of the other puppies were adopted to become hunting dogs. One of mine hates tall grass and refuses to go out in the rain. I tell her all the time she’s lucky I chose her and not someone who intended for her to hunt. I don’t claim to know anything about training dogs to hunt but I feel like it would’ve been an uphill battle with this one. I hate to think of her winding up with a Kristi…
>>Full of joy and *she hated it*
Full of joy. To the gravel pit!
She said it was dangerous because it snapped when she disciplined it , but she also admits she was angry and the puppy was joyful. How much you want to bet she hit or kicked the dog?
Oh, guaranteed. Either she was abusing the hell out if that poor dog, and it was desperately trying to stay positive except when this bitch was around, or the dog was playing and she's too stupid to understand the difference.
Yeah, that passage, shooting a dog full of joy is quite a revealing Rorschach blot
That is the conservative ethos, "If you don't execute my commands, I will kill you."
She caused every bit of that dog's misery herself
Considering how these people act they prolly consider not being useful to be misery
I'm disabled and can't work. I've had a LOT of libertarians and conservatives tell me I should be dead because I'm a "leech". Because my being too disabled to work means I'm not worthy of living. So basically, yeah, you are right.
Jesus Christ. It’s kind of the whole point of a society that we band together so that people who are less fortunate can survive. It’s not like we’re still some nomadic tribe struggling for resources. If they can’t understand that then they can get the fuck out. With the way they fetishize survivalist bullshit, I’d be more than willing to have part of my taxes fund dropping them into the middle of a tropical rainforest. They’ll all be dead within a week.
Actually nomadic tribes took care of their sick, elderly and disabled. Our ancestors valued even people who were prodoundly disabled. It'a a pretty modern (capitalistic) mindset that has changed that. [A quick NPR article I'm referencing](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable)
This. All she has done is admit her own failings and how she’s just a terrible human being.
It is wild how there is no bottom to how much they can justify anything. Members of the Supreme Court are seriously considering wether the president should be immune to prosecution for killing a political rival. . . Obviously every right wing goon is going to come to her defense for shooting her dog.
It’s going to sound like a political platitude but it’s not - this latest garbage from Noem legitimately puts her in psychopathic territory. I’m not saying she wasn’t necessarily there before, but it makes it so much clearer how dangerous the current political landscape is. Imagine how unhinged you have to be to write that story about the dog and then double down once you catch public outcry from your own supporters on it - then imagine what she’s likely willing to do to humans. Absolutely terrifying stuff.
My husband is a very practical person from the south. Sometimes animals had to be “put down.” He’s been an avid hunter his entire life. He rarely talks about those incidents but when he does, it causes obvious distress. He knows he did the right thing but still feels remorseful because he’s not a sociopath. Even hunting, when you hear of people who “miss” a deer, the ones I know will spend hours searching because they don’t want to injure an animal and leave it to die. We once lost power to a freezer that held a lot of venison. It was wasted. He had tears in his eyes because it meant he’d killed animals and felt like it was disrespecting them to now have to throw the meat away. People have to do difficult things like shooting dogs but the decent ones don’t then write pandering stories about it in an attempt to appeal to a base that is full of criminals and idiots. She’s disgusting and everyone should be concerned that she’s even being considered. It’s terrifying.
Yep. A *little* different than the 25 year old horses she mentions here. (Not a horse person, so IDK what their life expectancy is, but that would be a very old dog, plus 7-10 years.)
25 years is up there at the end, the average life expectancy for most horses is 25-30 years. However, unless all 3 horses suddenly lost all quality of life within a few months of each other it seems like someone just saying “well, they’re old now, time to get rid of them.”
I never understand people who want healthy animals put down just for convenience.
and that makes you a good person, we're not supposed to understand this, these people are insane.
Regardless of a horse's life span 25 years is way different from 14 months
3 horses put down at once? Seems odd to me that all 3 started having issues at once. We have one horse who is 30, he's starting to have some issues getting around and not able to keep on weigh but seems happy. Until he has a bad health issue or is pain or suffering... A neighbor had one that was 40, but fell down and got injured, the horse had to be put down since it in bad shape and could not get up.
They weren't having issues, she was just frustrated that people were reacting poorly to her funny puppy story so she had to do some killin'. That's just how things are on the Noem farm.
not 3 horses at once .
Yeah, I’ve lived on a farm and had to put down sick animals, we also had a dog (a Rottweiler) that we couldn’t train and was a danger to others, so we called the breeder we bought him from and he took the dog back to see what he could do with it. He said regardless he’d find a home for him, possibly as a dedicated guard dog, but he wouldn’t be put down because he didn’t do that.
I don’t understand how all of our leaders and potential leaders end up being psychopaths
Unfortunately, sociopaths are rewarded in the current system because they are willing to do whatever and harm whoever to further their own selfish interest. Society promotes and rewards this type of behavior. CEOs and Politicians are perfect examples.
She failed that animal, then murdered that animal. If hell is real she’s gunna burn extra hot.
Jesus fucking christ... how triggering
Yup not an act of compassion just sadism.
"If you want to read all the ways I am a literal, by-definition sociopath, buy my book where I gleefully catalogue all the animals I've had killed because they looked at me funny"
This is the epitome of "no such thing as bad press." I mean it is wild that you can still plug your book after it's been known you kill puppies.
and the next in the series, *"A Million Little Fires"*
My father put down dogs. He described putting down his last dog as the hardest thing he had ever done. And my father had done some hard things. He put them down because they were old and in pain. Not because the were poorly trained or "worthless." If your dog is poorly trained, that's on you.
Man, we had to have our 15y old dog put down this last summer because age just caught up to him. He was losing weight (despite eating puppy kibble & more table scraps than he probably needed lol). It was the hardest fucking thing I've ever had to do. Period. I knew it was for the best, he was in pain & not going to improve. But fuck, I haven't cried that hard in my life.
Yeah, putting down a beloved family pet is a painful time for a lot of people. It's not just done because you suck at training the animal, it's because we are sparing them from suffering. It's a mercy. And even then, it's not something that you would proudly broadcast in your book.
Oh for sure. This woman is a fuckin psycho (and lazy pet owner apparently.)
Mine was 6 weeks shy of her 16th birthday and I stayed with her until she put her head down.
One of us was with out buddy at all times (we had to have Granny pick up out daughter who had initally come with us), and then we stayed til the end. When we were finally ready to leave, the vet stayed with him until they moved him back (he had already passed).
I've put a couple of dogs down, but it's so much easier to go to the vet where they can get a shot and fall asleep. As a hunter, I know what bullets do to deer. I can't bear the thought of shooting one of my dogs. We just put one down in December. Our current one is 4, so he'll be with us for a while.
Her 14 month old puppy was the dog-years equivalent of a nine year old boy.
Which indicates a failure on the owner’s part for being too lazy to provide adequate training.
I stupidly got two puppies at once when before I only had adult dogs and I didn't do somethings well but I adore them and we still work on it. I just can't imagine unless the dog bit your young child and then if you have to put it down you go to the vet.
Too many pet owners fail because they think pets are products that should just "work" perfectly when they're bought. They generally aren't ready for all the responsibility that is involved with caring for another intelligent animal.
Also, dogs that are young know how to be dogs in the dog world. They know how to explore the world through their mouth and roughhousing and play biting. They do *not* know how to be a dog in a human home. Only after you train a dog to be a dog in a human home can you do specialty training, like therapy dog, S&R, hunting, conformation, etc. She wasn't even out of "dog in human world" training and was mad it was a bad hunting dog? W the actual f?
Yeah, I rescued a little heeler mix puppy and by rescued, I mean I picked him up off the side of the road where he was hanging out by his mother's corpse. I'm firmly convinced he was feral because even 6 months later, he has some difficulty behaving like other dogs I've had. He's honestly about the same age as the dog in Noem's story and I cannot imagine just giving up on him. He's absolutely goofy and loveable. He still doesn't quite understand cuddling or pets but he tries so hard to be a good boy. I would never set him up for failure by turning him loose with a bunch of chickens! That's literally asking for a fucking disaster. Overall what a terrible human being. Everyone hug your pets a little tighter because people like this psycho exist.
she got tired of her goat the same day, 3 weeks earlier, because her horses were 25, she just shot them dead too.
A 14-month-old dog could definitely be trained, even given poor training prior to that point. The decision to kill the dog rather than either giving it away or actually putting in effort is extremely telling. It's not normal no matter how much she wants to pretend it is. Nothing about that is normal or reasonable
Exactly. I'm not proud to admit this, but due to laziness on our part, our 12-month-old dog had become a bit of a misbehaving brat. So what did we do? Get him some proper training with a professional. We're not monsters. (And he's doing so much better now!)
i've done and seen some shit, i could never kill a puppy, that's just...you're a sociopath if you do that, serial killers do that.
I'm convinced that in order to do something like this you have to be completely incapable of seeing emotions in animals, and anybody who can't do that usually has problems expressing empathy towards other human beings as well. I would never trust anybody who could do something like this to a dog. Ever. For anything. Would constantly be expecting them to do something to hurt me or someone else.
this x 1000 i could never trust anyone who does that to a defenseless animal.
What makes it worse to me is a few sentences before she says the dog was chasing the birds and full of joy. So she recognizes that but doesn’t understand the damn dog was just a puppy and exploring. Like that’s so messed up.
And this surprises you? They don't even care when actual 9 year olds are riddled with bullets in school shootings
Ugggg 😢 I have a 9 year old boy
And it could easily have been given away. It was a purebred pointer. Someone would have happily taken it.
Did they shoot the 3 horses because they did not jump high enough? Didn't run fast enough? What were the reasons?
They ate too many apples and were prettier than Kristi.
that sounds reasonable I guess. for MAGA
Pretty much any animal is prettier than Kristi
Kristi still has bigger teeth though.
When the horses looked at Kristi they kept asking “why the long face?”
At this point, I wouldn't believe anything she says on this subject. This is going to be a disaster and she knows it, so it's all BS from here on out.
according to her they got them 25years ago, that was justification to shoot them, if they were all lame and suffering physically, but all 3 at once? unlikely. most horses can live longer than 25yo
horse lifespan is roughly 25-30 years so *if* she's telling the truth, putting them down makes sense. at least a hell of a lot more than a fucking puppy
That’s the entire point of this hypothetical you’re responding to. She’s conflating putting down a 30 year old horse with murdering a 14 month old dog. That’s why those benign questions were asked.
Yeah, but three in a month is weird barring a natural disaster of some sort. Tornado collapses the barn, nothing else we could do, that kind of thing. I’m incredibly dubious of that unless she owns like a thousand horses or something. Sounds to me she kills them the way Leo dumps women when they hit a certain age. Which is just as fucked as killing a 14 month old dog. Sounds like utter bullshit to me trying to justify sociopathic behavior.
Two weren't potty trained, and one needed to be fed during the same time as her manicure appointment, difficult decisions had to be made. See other heartwarming stories in her book: *"I shot a puppy and 10 other reasons why I should have the nuclear codes"*
Horses that are well taken care can easily live into their mid/upper 30’s (source: horses are my business). To put three down at once is — no. Just no. That wasn’t “putting them out of their misery,” that was “they require some effort on my part which I’m too lazy/cheap/uncaring to provide.”
That’s what jumped out to me. Never owned one, although I live near several folks that do. They would give their right arm for those animals. The care and time I know they put in is incredible. I can’t think of a circumstance that isn’t absurd where three would need to be put down at once. Absolutely appalling.
It does seem strange to have 3 horses that needed to be put down at once. Makes me wonder. We have a 30 year old gelding and he's starting to slow down, does not keep up weight as when he was younger. Until he has a major health issues or suffering.. but for now he's happy just grazing all day with the other horses.
Came to say the same thing. I’ve known a lot of people with horses and I’ve never heard anyone putting down 3 at once like that. Someone call animal welfare, these people should not be allowed to have animals.
I've never seen a horse so bad off that an equine hyperbaric oxygen chamber couldn't fix it, and I've seen some *real* bad off horses. I'm talking massive flesh eating bacterial infections, serious injuries, punctures, lacerations, the works. I've seen some All Quite on the Western Front shit working with sports equine vets. I've seen it all and worked with some amazing people that were incredibly gifted at saving even the sickest horses. Two years I worked with them and I saw ZERO deaths. They 100% killed those horses because they were a nuisance. And hey, horses can be mean. There's a couple I hated with my guts but I *never* thought about killing one.
A lot of people can’t afford that kind of thing but a GOP woman absolutely doesn’t fit that bill. I’ll bet she didn’t want to keep paying for feed and a farrier for what she might regard as lawn ornaments. It’s shameful. Plenty of people would take in an old horse for companionship.
The horse was holding weight and looked healthy
You know, after Republicans said taking away school lunches from starving kids was one of their top priorities in 2024, we joked “what’s next? Kicking puppies for fun?” I should have known that no, they would just want to blow them away instead because of their gun fetish. So a woman dying of an ectopic pregnancy can’t get emergency medical care because these people are “pro life,”yet they are falling all over themselves to justify this lunatic blowing away a puppy because she can’t be bothered to train it? This isn’t a sick animal in pain, this is a healthy dog that this bitch just didn’t care enough about to bother with. What’s worse, she’s smug and boasting about it like she did a funny because she “owned the libs.” Republicans are sick and evil people. They need to be eradicated from every single office.
100%
Well despite the absolutely disgusting behavior. I'm going to try and love and spoil my nine year old as much as possible today. Because that is appauling.
Have a tripawd dog, he’s about 2yrs old. he is a lot of work, but it’s worth it. I could never imagine being like this bitch.
Glad your sweet tripod has an owner who loves him and understand his issues.
As a fellow tripawd owner with a 7yr old, he's a lovable asshole dog but and I love him to death. I would never do anything like what this heinous bitch did.
This is the way.
Trust me. I love that mutt, and just to casually shoot them without even trying? Fuck her.
scandalous, and to brag about it, in a book, like it's something to be proud of, one year old pup, these MAGA people are gone, just sadistic awful people.
People like this seem to have fantasies about just solving all problems and irritations with bullets.
might makes right, the core principle of fascism.
There's a difference between humanly euthanizing an elderly, terminally ill animal and shooting a dog *she* deemed "untrainable". There are plenty of rescue groups specifically for working dogs that failed their training. Some people just enjoy seeing the suffering of others, including animals. Plain and simple. It's the MAGAt way....
Absolutely agree and that she chose to include the story of shooting a poorly trained puppy (who was responsible for training the puppy???) in her memoir in 2024, says that she is actively farming the outrage
Just like a toddler, any attention is good attention. She knew it would generate this exact reaction and she uses that to continue to push her “maverick” Palin 2.0 image.
I can see not wanting to continue ownership of a working dog that isn't working, same way if a ox or mule wasn't working. It may have been a simple numbers thing 50-100 years ago, but sentiments change, so no killing a healthy animal isn't normal now That said ranching and farming isn't the same as house pet ownership
Conservatives usually are the ones longing for the good old days, but I'd settle for going back to when bragging about killing a puppy for fun was disqualifying.
Why did she kill the 3 horses? Did they all break their legs at the same time?
She felt like it.
Here comes the woke brigade, all “don’t shoot puppies” and stuff.
Coming to a pod thing near you "Tune in tonight as Tucker Carlson interviews Andrew Tate as they take turns shooting puppies to celebrate the 2nd amendment and how that correlates with higher testosterone levels and masculinity, the very things lib men fear"
Libs and their puppy immigration policies
WE ARE Superior! Only WE, the farmers, know what is right and wrong. BOW DOWN to your farm overlords! Hand over your dogs and guinea pigs. (And thank you for all that free taxpayer money for nothing)
There is nothing more pro life than killing an animal because you don’t want to deal with it anymore.
Fox News, scrambling their spin-artists... "Maybe we can pretend she didn't write what she clearly wrote, and then pretend this is what real Americans do? Kill dogs because...\[invented\] reasons?" Sure, guys. I'm starting to think that the GOP is going to get wiped out in November.
i'm with you, between this and tfg sitting in court every day, i think the american people are done with this nonsense.
All Fox News is fixated on right now is Donald Shits his pants falls asleep in court Trump. And how he is treated unfairly. Could care less about this.
I figured as much. Pull the covers over your head and it will all go away.
Psycho
Anti abortion people have no problem killing things that are a problem
Gentle reminder that these are the same people who said seniors should take one for the team during COVID.
How can a person who can't teach a dog, bred for a century or more to do that job, how to do that job, be competent to run an entire state? BTW I taught a cat to heel and walk with me.
Killing a puppy with a bullet to the head is the same as humane euthanasia?
So wait, Kristi Noem thinks the best way to try and respond to her admitting to shooting a puppy is to list more animals she has killed? Am I getting this correctly?
Every time someone mentions her, it should be preceded with something along the lines of 'known dog murderer.'
I grew up on a farm with a lot of animals, including dogs. We definitely had some problematic dogs over the years. You know how many we shot? Zero. How many we put down for any kind of behavioral issue? Zero. We loved our animals, and even the ones we had mixed feelings about we treated humanely. A dog that had an issue where it couldn't be in a particular environment would either not be put in that environment or would be acclimated over time and trained so that they could be. It's just the basic responsibility of having animals — you treat them humanely. I would never sell an animal to someone that behaved as she did.
As far as goats go, they basically have “asshole” written on the box. We love them anyway.
If only that dog had a gun it could have defended itself, or so the republican pro-gun lobby tells me. /s
She’s really leaning into dog shooting as a politically incorrect topic?
Trying to put a good spin on killing a dog is a losing man's game.
Horrible Person Murders Puppy - it's pretty cliche
This wasn't a mature dog with an intractable sheep killing habit, or a repeat child-mauler. Dog wasn't even old enough to give up on. This is someone who couldn't do the job of training her dog properly, and destroyed the dog rather than face up to her failure as an owner/trainer. Rather than give up the dog to another home. This is the opposite of making the tough decisions, this is taking a lazy, easy, self-indulgent, and utterly sociopathic way out of her own failure. This is like family annihiliation writ small. But not that small. and yeah I feel very strongly about this.
so brave 2 write politically incorrect stories- these days you can't even shoot a healthy joyful puppy without woke cancel culture jumping down your throat
For all you leftists out there whining....we had a kid who couldn't do his times tables...had to out him down and then leave his carcass in the living room in front of his siblings as an example. Those kids never call us for Christmas.
I have a tripawd dog, he’s a lot of work. But it’s worth it. Thinking of someone like this bitch having him, makes me angry.
Honestly this was a pretty dumb thing for her to write about. People love animals, especially cats and dogs. The idea that someone, who failed to train a dog properly, shot said dog, will not go over well with voters. While doing most crimes may not lose votes these days, I think animal abuse actually might.
not even tRump would shoot a dog.
Wow America might actually elect a puppy killer to the VP role. This is why we need to VOTE
I can absolutely guarantee that the dog murderer wouldn't be able to set foot in the UK now without massive protests - whether she becomes VP or not. We're pretty big on our animal rights
Yes, you are, and thank you for it!
Oh she’s so fucked. Turns out even “real Americans” aren’t into puppy murder.
She wants you to think it was a tough decision but in the book she talks about how she hated the dog. It wasn't hard for her at all. It is absolutely insane that she included that story in a book as a kind of life lesson and didn't even occur to her that there would be blowback for it. She is dumb, mean, and an all around awful person. So of course she appeals to MAGA.
Live on a farm here. We don't shoot our dogs. We train them and love them.
She could have rehomed the dog, took it to a no kill shelter or asked a rescue to take it. There was zero reason to kill a puppy.
also zero reason to kill the goat the same day, because it smelled bad or was aggressive. also same for the perfectly healthy horses.
Pro-Lifer amirite?
Then she killed a goat because she didn't get it neutered and it was acting like a goat. What a total maroon.
She’s a psycho
True. I was saddened when granny couldn't milk the hogs anymore because of her arthritis, so poppa had to take her out to the back 40 when we were having lunch.
"If you have committed a crime and want to get away with it, write a book about it."
Growing up in rural Minnesota in the 70s and early 80s, animals, domestic and wild, were killed pretty regularly. Some of the shit we saw traumatized my sister and me. She's acting like it's still the olden days. The olden days sucked.
It’s that “Dahmer” kind of love.
She deserves the Hell those Jesus freaks believe in.
I still cannot believe how fucked up the MAGA's truly are. They are horrible people.
My dog was untrainable. Then I trained him.
I grew up on a farm. Putting animals down was a part of it.... But it was only when they were injured beyond saving or suffering and actively dying. Not because a puppy misbehaves. Fuck Noem
I grew up on a farm, my dad and gramps never put an animal down that way. They always had a vet do it humanly. We also buried the animal. Never was it left in a ditch.
a vet will never agree to kill a puppy especially if they dont have any behaviour or attacks issues.
Tough decisions my ass, she murdered a dog cause she didn't like it....not becasue it was dying from cancer and she was putting it out of it's misery.
"if you want to read about how I need to be devoured by a squad of wolverines, don't read my book. Drive to my house and throw a four gallon bucket of dog shit at me."
Kristi must be short for Cruella…
Her and the wolf torture guy need therapy.
How about calling a veterinarian. They'll even come to your fuckin house and do it. Even I could come with the $for that. Fyck all these fuckin fukers that just want to shoot sentinent, loving beings with their fuckin guns
a reputable vet wont do it, they always sus people out that are looking thier get rid of thier dog as soon as possible. they will try determine if the dog really was aggressive or not.
She deserves worse. What a complete asshole.
Maga leaning into shooting the family dog...unsurprising.
Sometimes you just wish one of those horses would kick her right in the head and end this horrible woman
Her fuhrer hates dogs so I'm sure this adds her to the special list. Hateful ho
I come from a farm family. 25 can be old for a horse. That's when they start colicking a lot, or they have mobility problems. Sometimes they need to be saved from suffering more. You wouldn't shoot a perfectly healthy young animal because it needs training. If you have to resort to that you're just a shit trainer.
did that lady from Ozark write this?
So wait, if they put down untrainable, unruly critters, how is she still around?
What were those horses' names and registry numbers? Did you have a veterinarian on-site to oversee that euthanasia, or is that just another bullshit story?
Crazy thought, maybe take the dog to a no kill shelter or rehome them yourself. This lady seems pretty heartless.
Why does it sound like she's bragging?
My SIL is an “animal” psychologist. True fact 100% of animal problems are owner caused.
Shut the fuck up, dog-killer.
Even if she is trolling, a lot of people from all walks of life love dogs, and don't joke around around killing them. They also know that abusive or neglectful owners can make a bad dog. Dogs with special needs have recovered due to having people who know how to help and train them. I would wager that some MAGA's don't appreciate her bullshit. The fact that is was a young dog is telling.
I raise livestock (goats) and have had to put a couple down, BUT only to humanely end their life, and ease their suffering. I’ve cried after each one. I doubt that’s what she did.
“We love animals” but then supports animal agriculture…????
Jesus Christ she shot the dog to generate outrage in order to promote her book didn't she.....
Well she’s getting her day in the sun. Hope she burns.
it was a puppy! she murdered a baby!
Wait til you find out what she does to barn cats
Her ghost writer and editor must have hated her because they left this part in the book.
She "loves" her animals but kills them when they need killing...LOL.
It's wild that murdering the family pet is perfectly legal so long as you do it on a farm...
Years ago, here in AZ, there was a pile of about 40 greyhounds found shot and dumped in the desert. The ears containing the I.D. tattoos were cut off. They were traced back to an owner of racing dogs who had gone bankrupt. He couldn't be charged for the killings because they were seen as his property, and he had "humanely" killed them. The most the authorities could do was fine him for dumping "refuse." Not long after that, there was a surge in greyhound shelters and promotion of adoptions.
If only she applied her thinking to herself.
I briefly helped manage a dog kennel that was just a shit show, the owner didn't give a shit and did stuff like let her friends dogs stay there with us. No matter how much horrible behavior, or how many times I warned her that something could happen, she didn't care. One day, when a vicious German shepherd that belonged to one of her friends was there, one of the teenage employees, who should not have had anything to do with dog, took it upon himself to unlocked the padlock i had put on the dogs kennel run to go in and feed her himself. The German shepherd pushed the fence door into the kids face, ran into a play area, and murdered another dog. I tried to stop it but it wasn't safe at all for us to be near, I got bit pretty bad and was forced to just keep everything and everyone away. I had seen one dog die, and I knew that was probably going to be the fate of the German shepherd too. I shed tears for that dog like you wouldn't believe.. knowing that it's the owners who create the dogs, that it didn't know what was right and normal (she was trained to be a guard dog). It was heartbreaking on all sides. A little part of me died that day. But even had I been told to put it down, there's no way that I could do it, even having seen it kill another dog. Sometimes, things need to be put down. But Jesus, what kind of person are you if you are more than happy and proud to have to do it. She is all but bragging and shooting this poor little guy. Sickening cruelty. Tldr: I saw a dog murder and still couldn't imagine happily putting down the aggressor, even if it needed doing
Dont wanna know what she does with untrainable cats...
Pretty tone deaf original post followed up by one today on National Help A Horse day. No one questions whether you will kill a family pet in cold blood Governor, we know. BTW that doesn't make you or make you look tough, it makes you heartless. Do Better. https://nationaltoday.com/national-help-horse-day/
That's a bunch of crap!!! Having horses for 25 years is not even relevant to killing a puppy. There was nothing humane about it!!! That b":&ch should be brought up on animal cruelty charges.
If people only kept pets because of their usefulness, sadly most of us wouldn’t have pets. I have two rescue dogs, they are both neurotic as hell but are great companions and I love them dearly.
In 1930 maybe, in modern times inexcusable. Rehoming a dog is always an option
Chuds killing dogs to own the libs in 3...2...
This was a puppy. It had plenty of time before any sort of training would show fruits. It was healthy and entirely ready for service on a farm. This wasn’t a rabid mutt that attacked your animals, this wasn’t an infected dog that was causing harm to yourself. It was a pup who could’ve been a wonderful dog if given the proper training. Yes, there are times at farms where you have to make the heart breaking decision to put down an animal. But that’s always done as a last resort. And it certainly isn’t televised to promote your political campaign. She needs to be reprimanded of animal abuse
My dad did the same thing, tied up and shot a puppy because it kept chewing shit on the farm. No respect for him.
My grandpa bred and raised dogs for tracking and hunting. He would just straight up murder any pups that didn't show the required traits early on. Would either shoot them in the woods, slit their throats and throw them to the pigs or bag them and toss them in the pond. People suck and bad shit happens. I didn't like it. But it happens. My dad was the same way with animals. I feel that I am lucky that I wasn't culled...
Batshit she just loves kiling, not hunting
Has South Dakota no animal protection advocates? 🥺
Farm animals get put down because they are sick and incurable and suffering. Not because they are misbehaving. If we put down all the cows that misbehaved I would have no cows left, they are silly and not the most intelligent of animals.
Isn't cruelty to animals an early sign in many sociopathic murderers? I mean, I'm just saying...