Donald Trump's possible future runningmate and proud hunter South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem confesses in her upcoming book that she shot dead her family's "less than worthless" pointer puppy and one of their "disgusting" goats.
She's proud of it because it proves she's capable of doing "difficult, messy and ugly" jobs — like shooting her puppy, Cricket — Noem writes in a a copy of the book obtained by the Guardian.
"I hated that dog," Noem notes in "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," the Guardian reported.
The Republican governor confirmed the animal-killing accounts in tweets on Friday.
She was furious that Cricket was proving to be "untrainable" as a hunting dog, and made the decision to klll her after the 14-month-old dog fattally attacked a neighbor's chickens like a "trained assassin," Noem writes.
"At that moment, I realised I had to put her down," she added. She got her gun, led Cricket to a gravel pit and dispatched her, Noem recounted.
"It was not a pleasant job," she writes. "But it had to be done."
Likewise, she shot to death an uncastrated "nasty and mean" family goat. The "disgusting, musky, rancid" animal often knocked down Noem's children, she complained.
"I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn't tell the story here," she noted.
She posted a link to the Guardian story on her X account, and offered up a few extra details.
"We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm," she wrote. "Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years."
We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 26, 2024
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She followed up with a pitch to followers to pre-order her book, crowing that it will "have the media gasping."
She had more than the media sputtering.
Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Fara Griffin reminded her that "countless organizations" re-home dogs from owners who are "incapable of properly training and caring for them."
— Vegas Conservative (@denstarr4) April 26, 2024
