People are portraying this as Noem killing the dog because she didn’t like it, but if the dog is killing the neighbour’s chickens then you have to do something. Giving away a dog that you know will cause problems for the new owners doesn’t seem right, even if you could find a taker.
While I 100% support her actions, really – if she is considering a federal run the probably not the smartest thing to write in a book. If indeed, she did write that. Nowadays the media just makes shit up and never admits it.
I’m not troubled by her killing a dog who’s developed a taste for slaughtering livestock … but I DO have a problem with her killing women’s collegiate athletics by bowing down to the NCAA and their insistence on allowing men dressed as women to “compete” in women’s sports.
She laid down prostrate before the utterly corrupt and vile NCAA … a total coward.
This. I watched as she caved on her very first test as Governor. I knew then she was weak, and unreliable. God help America if she becomes VP.
It’s sad … because I WANT to support her as an “outsider” politician. But she’s no such thing. She’s fully GOPed and WEFed.
Agreed.
Compared to Kamala?
Are you ok?
Shooting a puppy that could have been placed in a non-farm home and then describing it is about as stupid as it gets. I like her a lot, but this was just unforgivably stupid, to first do it and then write it down in a book.
Puppy? No, it was a DOG. Yes, a young dog, but it was a DOG. From the leaked excerpt, there was a lot more to it than simply the chickens. So no, it was NOT “unforgivably stupid, to first do it”.
Grow up.
I imagine there are a number of folks who feel the same about Biden’s dog “Major” …
*If a dog won’t stop attacking, then I agree with Kristi, it was quick, she has stated how it was not something she wanted to do, and more or less had to. This happens on the farm a lot more than you’d think. To cats too.
Secret Service people have said the Biden dog Commander has bitten others 24 times.
“Major” has at least 11 strikes against him, not including White House staff, and hopefully journalists too.
Anyways… any new info this week on Pedophile Biden showering with his niece?
Major has a license to bite.
Now that has reality tv potential. “Kristi Noem vs. Major: Ruff Justice!” “Can anything save Major from the stern fate he’s earned? Maybe Democrat corruption? Or Republican idiocy?” It could be the salvation of cable!
Hot lead injection cures all.
That is how it is done down on the farm folks. Urbanites not understanding this should STFU. Now,,,,and forever>
I’d say ‘exactly’, but that wouldn’t be accurate.
In our neighbourhood your neighbour will shoot your dog for you if it kills their chickens or harasses their livestock.
And then phone you to come and get your dog.
And you answer, “Sorry you had to do that. How many chickens do I owe you?”
Yeah, I picture someone eating a lean chicken breast and condemning Noem for putting down a chicken killing dog.
More likely someone eating a chicken flavoured soy cutlet.
That would be a lot less ironic but just as stupid, I guess.
I can’t believe it’s not chicken
Reminds me of the issue that arose a few years ago in Okotoks where gophers had invaded a kids soccer field to the point where kids were injuring themselves stepping into the holes. The oh-so fragile urbanites got together and suggested trapping the gophers and relocating them. For the love of God, who wants to be the recipient of “relocated” gophers. Many urbanites are far too stupid to be even commenting on matters like this.
Exactly. The idiots have invented a vacuum cleaning truck that sucks prairie dogs out of their burrows, so they can relocate them. Complete lunacy.
The hill beside Max Bell station is Swiss Cheese due to gophers. A major problem waiting to happen that could be eradicated with Lightning Gopher Poison (pure strychnine and banned years ago). But urbanites would soil their diapers over that. (There are no hawks in the area so no threat there.)
Having a pet that you have to keep penned or tied up for repeated destructive behavior is a losing proposition. Some animals are, (like some people) not fit to integrate in a meaningful way.
Best to deal with it ….. in a meaningful way.
We as dog breeders deal with this all the time. A young dog has a behavior that’s unsuitable for that placement? We take it back, rehab if necessary then find it a more suitable.
I have no issues euthanizing a dog that’s proven a threat to humans, or that has significant behavioral problems — but this? It killed chickens. Pay for the chickens, contact the breeder, find it a new home.
Kristy Noem: “Hold my chicken”.
Does he/she choke the chicken?
Asking for a friend!
Discretion being the better part of valor might have been applied here. Not sure why an editor didn’t tell her “Yeah, let’s leave that part out”.
When I was young we had a quart sized psychopath on our farm who killed chickens for the sheer enjoyment of it…scolding him only meant buying time, he’d be good for a while then something would trigger him before going off on a killing spree. How my uber pragmatic father let him hang around till he died of old age says more about dad I guess. That said…great dog, despite his murderous tendencies.
She’ll catch holy hell from squishy liberals who’ve never been outside a city yet think ripping babies out piece by piece in the third trimester is just fine.
Killing the miscreants is easy. When it is time to put down you best canine buddy, then your character shows through.
What’s interesting is that, if it appears in her book, then she didn’t learn anything from the Mittens episode of “rooftop kennel”.
The problem is that in our urbanized world people just can’t relate to the reality of life. They don’t know where their food comes from or what it looked like before it hit their plate. For the modern world there is always a “Specialist” or “Department” to deal with the messy things in life and they are sheltered from it.
Of course the lefties will see this a pure fodder for their perpetual outrage machine.
After homesteading in the Debolt area, my father sold his quarter section and had a dog that he could not take with him as he was heading into Calgary to start a new life. The dog was much loved, but as it was a farm dog would not adapt to city life and it would take several days to make the trip to Calgary. My Dad fed the dog some of the best moose meat he had and waited for the dog to drift off to sleep outside the house and my Dad shot it. Yeah….sometimes hard decision have to be made. And those decisions are the hardest on those who have to make them rather than some ass standing on the sidelines.
Because ranchers and farmers will ALWAYS drive the animal however many miles over to the vet and PAY to have someone else kill it.
I grew up on a farm, never ever heard of anyone putting down their dog for any reason, what a horrible person (sarcasm)
Her behavior is a clear indication of her willingness and ability to take responsibility. That doesn’t sell in this day and age, and the signs of that are all around us.
Don’t put dogs on roofs, don’t shoot dogs in gravel pits. I wouldn’t vote for either. Trump has a habit of picking the wrong folks over nd over. , so wouldn’t surprise me if he picks her. Trump still thinks the vaccine was a miracle .
If it bit a baby I’d put it down , but not cause it had fun with chickens.
So you’re OK with stealing from your neighbour (owner of the chickens). Glad I’m not your neighbour.
She paid for the chickens, Hopefully something ate them. Naw, I’m not shooting a dog for being a dog, I’m training it. Dogs are companions rather than property. They generally have our backs and go to sleep thinking how much they like us. You live in Toronto too?
All this bantering about.
Doesn’t mean squat because out there in the upside down there are more people everyday that would have a hard time choosing between a human and a pet if both where in grave danger.
I’ll fall on the side of putting the dog down.
I’ve had pets throughout childhood and a good portion of my adult life. I do know how things are done on a farm but I also know how pets in a loving home are treated. It takes effort to properly provide and care for your pets. To keep them properly fed, clean, comfortable and happy. There’s no excuse to traveling a full day with your dog exposed to a loud noisy confined environment open to the elements. That’s abuse in my book. Also there’s no excuse to not properly fencing in your dog to keep them from running free. That’s a lack of duty of care to protect both the dog and outsiders from each other. Having a pet means you are in full control of their custody at all times. I’m not surprised that a dog on the loose killed chickens. We had two black labs on our street where I grew up that would regularly get out and attack other people’s pets. This is Laziness and lack of consideration by the owner. Or to sum up: character weakness. Definitely nothing to defend or brag about. I’m with you Bobs. I wouldn’t vote for either. If they can’t treat their own dogs properly how good are they with treating strangers that they want support from?
Have you never been on a farm?
Mercy killing of animals is humane. She lived in a highly rural area where no one would want that kind of dog. Your livestock are your livelihood, a farm dog that harms livestock can’t stay on the farm. When it’s all farms, what do you do?
And dogs have been around longer than fences.
That said, I personally would try to find a family in town that could take the dog. But you should try not to judge the people that grow your food too harshly. They work hard every day of the year so you can live a more comfortable life. Their lives are harsh, your judgement doesn’t have to be.
My spouse and my folks grew up on farms so I get it. But I don’t respect lazy uncaring pet owners. More could have been done to avoid the gravel pit. I don’t want leaders that give up easy and are oblivious to abuse. Compassion is an important character trait and I’m not seeing it here.
She’s suspect. Only good reason to shoot a dog is if it’s attacking people.
If dog is attacking neighbors chickens, restrain your fookin dog.
Sorry, you can’t have a cool free range farm dog without some training and effort.
The thing was a year and a half old wirehaired pointer? Not a dog to just roam the farm. Can’t treat it like a 12 year old collie.
I’m guessing urbanite…
You’re guessing wrong. The comment was bang on.
Not a farmer but surrounded by them.
Never been mistaken for “urban” before.
Killed a 14 month old pointer because it attacked some chickens. An unsupervised puppy doing exactly what bird dogs do. Roaming all around hunting everything that moves.
Says so many things about the owner.
I grew up in the city.
When I was 22, I had a German Shepherd I liked. It was a “rescue”. One day, unprovoked, it bit a child that ran on to our front yard innocently chasing a ball.
I packed the dog into the car, drove to the vet and had it put down. I couldn’t trust it.
Two years later I was visiting my cousin on his farm. We had an Old English Sheepdog. The cousin warned us that if it went onto the neighbour’s dairy farm it would be shot. I had no problem whatsoever with that advice. Besides the dog was trained and wouldn’t run off. From that time on, we knew and obeyed the simple rule.
The point – a dog is a dog, not a human. Obey the rules, be responsible.
Kristy didn’t do anything wrong and doesn’t need to apologize for demonstrating her respect for other people’s property. That she should pay a price for this decision is regrettable. If her editor suggested she remove the story and she chose not to gives me more reason to respect Kristy.
My dog eats rabbits. Neighbor doesn’t like that. Might have to put the neighbor down.
People have killed aggressive dogs for thousands of years. That’s why modern dogs are lovable companions and not wolves.
But it was stupid of her to tell that story knowing what the left did to Mitt Romney. She just blew her chance at a Vice Presidential slot.
My grandmother was tasked with offing domestic critters. She treated it like any other crappy job.
What happens if the VP nominee bites the voters?
Steve
You shoot the voter then!
I shot the dog and the, dog won.
Love the not-so-subtle messaging in that story.
“Executed” the dog?
“Lured it” to a gravel pit?
The “right-wing politician” (after they had already identified her as Republican)?
Gee, no overt political bias there, right?
And it sounds like some people here should have read the story more carefully: the dog was “aggressive and untrainable”, and the chicken killings were “‘the final straw”. Note also that the dog was taking great pleasure in the killings, and would certainly have killed *every chicken there* if he had not been stopped (and just for fun).
She’s easily the best Republican in the USA. Proud she’s my governor.
The dog growled at her as well.
I can’t speak to her dog training, but that can not happen more than once.
In a public field this morning, from a distance, I watched a big, off-leash dog attack a big, leashed dog. The owner went down protecting his leashed dog, but was up quickly. That’s when I started to go over, but my better half stopped me. It was a quick encounter.
The off-leash owners soon arrived, but what a shitshow.
I think shooting the off-leash owners was warranted.
If you have to, shoot, shovel and shut up!
Don’t write a book about it!
I must admit that as a dog-lover, I am a bit troubled by reading this.
Even though I love dogs, I grew up in the city, and not on a farm, so I have to admit that the thought of executing an animal by shooting it like that disturbs me. Is it true that some dogs are untrainable, and even if it is, is 14 months enough time to come to that determination? And if the dog is dangerous, doesn’t Kristi Noem bear some responsibility for allowing the dog to escape the pick-up truck? Isn’t it the owner’s responsibility to make sure that a dog with known psychopathic potential as Cricket, is properly secured in the truck?
As much as I admire Kristi Noem, I’d say that the left are making good headway with reasonable arguments about this particular episode, so I have to wonder what Kate, with all her experience with dogs, and farm life, would have to say about this.
Edit: Just read your comments above, Kate. Glad we’re on the same page on this.
Nobody is outraged by the dog murdering chickens in cold blood?
“Nobody is outraged by the dog murdering chickens in cold blood?”
Yeah, that’s my takeaway as well.
Don’t get me wrong: I love dogs as much as the next guy, but there have to be limits. The article doesn’t say whether Kristi Noem had raised this animal from a puppy or gotten it from someone else. She may indeed be responsible for how it ended up behaving, although we might want to at least acknowledge the fact that she has been raising and training hunting dogs for some time, so perhaps she knows what she is doing?
Here’s more:
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Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
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So we know that a wirehair pointer is *not* a lap dog …so what sense would it make to try and to pass off this problem to someone who lives in a city? What animals would it choose to kill then…cats? Birds? Smaller dogs? Would you trust a dog like that around small children?
Sorry, but I have to stick with my original assessment: Kristi Noem did what she had to do. Clearly she should NOT have gone public with this, though….that was dumb. Most people who understand rural life (several of whom have weighed in here at SDA) don’t have a serious problem with this, but she should have expected the vociferous reaction of city-dwellers, who don’t see their dogs as assets and working animals but rather as pets and substitute children.
So bird/gun dogs are another topic that you know nothing about but hold strong opinions?
I’d be appalled if this dog “murdered” that chicken in cold blood. I would like to think that he killed it savagely, gleefully, and triumphally, and took transcendant satisfaction from it. When you’re a beast, fierce proud beast is the way to be. Mind you, if it was my chicken, I’d shoot him too.
Your dog is your dog. It is not my dog; it is the functional equivalent of a coyote. I have no emotional or financial attachment to your animal. I have a large financial and emotional attachment to my hens. I have lost a relatively large number of hens to what appear to be stray dogs that are either hungry or frisky. I have no patience for this as every hen I lose has a long term financial impact on me, my family, and those folks to whom I provide farm fresh eggs.
If you cannot restrain your animal and it is a threat to my domestic animals, my wife, or to me, then woe be to your animal. I will admit, the first dog I dispatched was a bit difficult to do. But, over a decade in the country has inured me to the task.
She isn’t smart enough to STFU when it comes certain things. Wouldn’t want her on any ticket.
So she sucks at training dogs. Supposedly lived on a farm and haven’t figured out what untrained, running free, pointer (bird dog) would do? Clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Then, instead of training the dog, she has chosen the lazy easy way out and put a bullet in it?
And she brags about it as if it was some achievement. … Of course SDA tough guys are oh so happy that he actions outraged libtards so embrace her for them. She may be a good governor but taunting her failures as successes is a very libtard thing to do.
” Of course SDA tough guys are oh so happy that he actions outraged libtards so embrace her for them. ”
Well, it was laughably easy to trigger you, wasn’t it?
Sure, every time you demonstrate your stupid it is to “trigger” someone.
People are portraying this as Noem killing the dog because she didn’t like it, but if the dog is killing the neighbour’s chickens then you have to do something. Giving away a dog that you know will cause problems for the new owners doesn’t seem right, even if you could find a taker.
While I 100% support her actions, really – if she is considering a federal run the probably not the smartest thing to write in a book. If indeed, she did write that. Nowadays the media just makes shit up and never admits it.
I’m not troubled by her killing a dog who’s developed a taste for slaughtering livestock … but I DO have a problem with her killing women’s collegiate athletics by bowing down to the NCAA and their insistence on allowing men dressed as women to “compete” in women’s sports.
She laid down prostrate before the utterly corrupt and vile NCAA … a total coward.
She laid down prostrate for Lewandowski:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/kristi-noem-corey-lewandowski-affair-shakes-up-trump-running-mate-stakes/
Lucky Lewandowski, she’s hot.
This. I watched as she caved on her very first test as Governor. I knew then she was weak, and unreliable. God help America if she becomes VP.
It’s sad … because I WANT to support her as an “outsider” politician. But she’s no such thing. She’s fully GOPed and WEFed.
Agreed.
Compared to Kamala?
Are you ok?
Shooting a puppy that could have been placed in a non-farm home and then describing it is about as stupid as it gets. I like her a lot, but this was just unforgivably stupid, to first do it and then write it down in a book.
Puppy? No, it was a DOG. Yes, a young dog, but it was a DOG. From the leaked excerpt, there was a lot more to it than simply the chickens. So no, it was NOT “unforgivably stupid, to first do it”.
Grow up.
I imagine there are a number of folks who feel the same about Biden’s dog “Major” …
*If a dog won’t stop attacking, then I agree with Kristi, it was quick, she has stated how it was not something she wanted to do, and more or less had to. This happens on the farm a lot more than you’d think. To cats too.
Secret Service people have said the Biden dog Commander has bitten others 24 times.
“Major” has at least 11 strikes against him, not including White House staff, and hopefully journalists too.
https://abc7chicago.com/biden-dog-bites-commander-german-shepherd/14455980/
Anyways… any new info this week on Pedophile Biden showering with his niece?
Major has a license to bite.
Now that has reality tv potential. “Kristi Noem vs. Major: Ruff Justice!” “Can anything save Major from the stern fate he’s earned? Maybe Democrat corruption? Or Republican idiocy?” It could be the salvation of cable!
Hot lead injection cures all.
That is how it is done down on the farm folks. Urbanites not understanding this should STFU. Now,,,,and forever>
I’d say ‘exactly’, but that wouldn’t be accurate.
In our neighbourhood your neighbour will shoot your dog for you if it kills their chickens or harasses their livestock.
And then phone you to come and get your dog.
And you answer, “Sorry you had to do that. How many chickens do I owe you?”
Yeah, I picture someone eating a lean chicken breast and condemning Noem for putting down a chicken killing dog.
More likely someone eating a chicken flavoured soy cutlet.
That would be a lot less ironic but just as stupid, I guess.
I can’t believe it’s not chicken
Reminds me of the issue that arose a few years ago in Okotoks where gophers had invaded a kids soccer field to the point where kids were injuring themselves stepping into the holes. The oh-so fragile urbanites got together and suggested trapping the gophers and relocating them. For the love of God, who wants to be the recipient of “relocated” gophers. Many urbanites are far too stupid to be even commenting on matters like this.
Exactly. The idiots have invented a vacuum cleaning truck that sucks prairie dogs out of their burrows, so they can relocate them. Complete lunacy.
The hill beside Max Bell station is Swiss Cheese due to gophers. A major problem waiting to happen that could be eradicated with Lightning Gopher Poison (pure strychnine and banned years ago). But urbanites would soil their diapers over that. (There are no hawks in the area so no threat there.)
Having a pet that you have to keep penned or tied up for repeated destructive behavior is a losing proposition. Some animals are, (like some people) not fit to integrate in a meaningful way.
Best to deal with it ….. in a meaningful way.
We as dog breeders deal with this all the time. A young dog has a behavior that’s unsuitable for that placement? We take it back, rehab if necessary then find it a more suitable.
I have no issues euthanizing a dog that’s proven a threat to humans, or that has significant behavioral problems — but this? It killed chickens. Pay for the chickens, contact the breeder, find it a new home.
Kristy Noem: “Hold my chicken”.
Does he/she choke the chicken?
Asking for a friend!
Mitt Romney: “I put my dog on the roof of my car”
Kristy Noem: “Hold my chicken”.
Barack Obama: “Pass the ketchup”.
Discretion being the better part of valor might have been applied here. Not sure why an editor didn’t tell her “Yeah, let’s leave that part out”.
When I was young we had a quart sized psychopath on our farm who killed chickens for the sheer enjoyment of it…scolding him only meant buying time, he’d be good for a while then something would trigger him before going off on a killing spree. How my uber pragmatic father let him hang around till he died of old age says more about dad I guess. That said…great dog, despite his murderous tendencies.
She’ll catch holy hell from squishy liberals who’ve never been outside a city yet think ripping babies out piece by piece in the third trimester is just fine.
Killing the miscreants is easy. When it is time to put down you best canine buddy, then your character shows through.
What’s interesting is that, if it appears in her book, then she didn’t learn anything from the Mittens episode of “rooftop kennel”.
The problem is that in our urbanized world people just can’t relate to the reality of life. They don’t know where their food comes from or what it looked like before it hit their plate. For the modern world there is always a “Specialist” or “Department” to deal with the messy things in life and they are sheltered from it.
Of course the lefties will see this a pure fodder for their perpetual outrage machine.
After homesteading in the Debolt area, my father sold his quarter section and had a dog that he could not take with him as he was heading into Calgary to start a new life. The dog was much loved, but as it was a farm dog would not adapt to city life and it would take several days to make the trip to Calgary. My Dad fed the dog some of the best moose meat he had and waited for the dog to drift off to sleep outside the house and my Dad shot it. Yeah….sometimes hard decision have to be made. And those decisions are the hardest on those who have to make them rather than some ass standing on the sidelines.
Because ranchers and farmers will ALWAYS drive the animal however many miles over to the vet and PAY to have someone else kill it.
I grew up on a farm, never ever heard of anyone putting down their dog for any reason, what a horrible person (sarcasm)
Her behavior is a clear indication of her willingness and ability to take responsibility. That doesn’t sell in this day and age, and the signs of that are all around us.
Don’t put dogs on roofs, don’t shoot dogs in gravel pits. I wouldn’t vote for either. Trump has a habit of picking the wrong folks over nd over. , so wouldn’t surprise me if he picks her. Trump still thinks the vaccine was a miracle .
If it bit a baby I’d put it down , but not cause it had fun with chickens.
So you’re OK with stealing from your neighbour (owner of the chickens). Glad I’m not your neighbour.
She paid for the chickens, Hopefully something ate them. Naw, I’m not shooting a dog for being a dog, I’m training it. Dogs are companions rather than property. They generally have our backs and go to sleep thinking how much they like us. You live in Toronto too?
All this bantering about.
Doesn’t mean squat because out there in the upside down there are more people everyday that would have a hard time choosing between a human and a pet if both where in grave danger.
I’ll fall on the side of putting the dog down.
I’ve had pets throughout childhood and a good portion of my adult life. I do know how things are done on a farm but I also know how pets in a loving home are treated. It takes effort to properly provide and care for your pets. To keep them properly fed, clean, comfortable and happy. There’s no excuse to traveling a full day with your dog exposed to a loud noisy confined environment open to the elements. That’s abuse in my book. Also there’s no excuse to not properly fencing in your dog to keep them from running free. That’s a lack of duty of care to protect both the dog and outsiders from each other. Having a pet means you are in full control of their custody at all times. I’m not surprised that a dog on the loose killed chickens. We had two black labs on our street where I grew up that would regularly get out and attack other people’s pets. This is Laziness and lack of consideration by the owner. Or to sum up: character weakness. Definitely nothing to defend or brag about. I’m with you Bobs. I wouldn’t vote for either. If they can’t treat their own dogs properly how good are they with treating strangers that they want support from?
Have you never been on a farm?
Mercy killing of animals is humane. She lived in a highly rural area where no one would want that kind of dog. Your livestock are your livelihood, a farm dog that harms livestock can’t stay on the farm. When it’s all farms, what do you do?
And dogs have been around longer than fences.
That said, I personally would try to find a family in town that could take the dog. But you should try not to judge the people that grow your food too harshly. They work hard every day of the year so you can live a more comfortable life. Their lives are harsh, your judgement doesn’t have to be.
My spouse and my folks grew up on farms so I get it. But I don’t respect lazy uncaring pet owners. More could have been done to avoid the gravel pit. I don’t want leaders that give up easy and are oblivious to abuse. Compassion is an important character trait and I’m not seeing it here.
She’s suspect. Only good reason to shoot a dog is if it’s attacking people.
If dog is attacking neighbors chickens, restrain your fookin dog.
Sorry, you can’t have a cool free range farm dog without some training and effort.
The thing was a year and a half old wirehaired pointer? Not a dog to just roam the farm. Can’t treat it like a 12 year old collie.
I’m guessing urbanite…
You’re guessing wrong. The comment was bang on.
Not a farmer but surrounded by them.
Never been mistaken for “urban” before.
Killed a 14 month old pointer because it attacked some chickens. An unsupervised puppy doing exactly what bird dogs do. Roaming all around hunting everything that moves.
Says so many things about the owner.
I grew up in the city.
When I was 22, I had a German Shepherd I liked. It was a “rescue”. One day, unprovoked, it bit a child that ran on to our front yard innocently chasing a ball.
I packed the dog into the car, drove to the vet and had it put down. I couldn’t trust it.
Two years later I was visiting my cousin on his farm. We had an Old English Sheepdog. The cousin warned us that if it went onto the neighbour’s dairy farm it would be shot. I had no problem whatsoever with that advice. Besides the dog was trained and wouldn’t run off. From that time on, we knew and obeyed the simple rule.
The point – a dog is a dog, not a human. Obey the rules, be responsible.
Kristy didn’t do anything wrong and doesn’t need to apologize for demonstrating her respect for other people’s property. That she should pay a price for this decision is regrettable. If her editor suggested she remove the story and she chose not to gives me more reason to respect Kristy.
My dog eats rabbits. Neighbor doesn’t like that. Might have to put the neighbor down.
People have killed aggressive dogs for thousands of years. That’s why modern dogs are lovable companions and not wolves.
But it was stupid of her to tell that story knowing what the left did to Mitt Romney. She just blew her chance at a Vice Presidential slot.
My grandmother was tasked with offing domestic critters. She treated it like any other crappy job.
What happens if the VP nominee bites the voters?
Steve
You shoot the voter then!
I shot the dog and the, dog won.
Love the not-so-subtle messaging in that story.
“Executed” the dog?
“Lured it” to a gravel pit?
The “right-wing politician” (after they had already identified her as Republican)?
Gee, no overt political bias there, right?
And it sounds like some people here should have read the story more carefully: the dog was “aggressive and untrainable”, and the chicken killings were “‘the final straw”. Note also that the dog was taking great pleasure in the killings, and would certainly have killed *every chicken there* if he had not been stopped (and just for fun).
She’s easily the best Republican in the USA. Proud she’s my governor.
The dog growled at her as well.
I can’t speak to her dog training, but that can not happen more than once.
In a public field this morning, from a distance, I watched a big, off-leash dog attack a big, leashed dog. The owner went down protecting his leashed dog, but was up quickly. That’s when I started to go over, but my better half stopped me. It was a quick encounter.
The off-leash owners soon arrived, but what a shitshow.
I think shooting the off-leash owners was warranted.
If you have to, shoot, shovel and shut up!
Don’t write a book about it!
Of Curs and Women
Life Follows Art dept.
Of Mice and Men :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ddap2Pyhtw
I must admit that as a dog-lover, I am a bit troubled by reading this.
Even though I love dogs, I grew up in the city, and not on a farm, so I have to admit that the thought of executing an animal by shooting it like that disturbs me. Is it true that some dogs are untrainable, and even if it is, is 14 months enough time to come to that determination? And if the dog is dangerous, doesn’t Kristi Noem bear some responsibility for allowing the dog to escape the pick-up truck? Isn’t it the owner’s responsibility to make sure that a dog with known psychopathic potential as Cricket, is properly secured in the truck?
As much as I admire Kristi Noem, I’d say that the left are making good headway with reasonable arguments about this particular episode, so I have to wonder what Kate, with all her experience with dogs, and farm life, would have to say about this.
Edit: Just read your comments above, Kate. Glad we’re on the same page on this.
Nobody is outraged by the dog murdering chickens in cold blood?
“Nobody is outraged by the dog murdering chickens in cold blood?”
Yeah, that’s my takeaway as well.
Don’t get me wrong: I love dogs as much as the next guy, but there have to be limits. The article doesn’t say whether Kristi Noem had raised this animal from a puppy or gotten it from someone else. She may indeed be responsible for how it ended up behaving, although we might want to at least acknowledge the fact that she has been raising and training hunting dogs for some time, so perhaps she knows what she is doing?
Here’s more:
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Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
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So we know that a wirehair pointer is *not* a lap dog …so what sense would it make to try and to pass off this problem to someone who lives in a city? What animals would it choose to kill then…cats? Birds? Smaller dogs? Would you trust a dog like that around small children?
Sorry, but I have to stick with my original assessment: Kristi Noem did what she had to do. Clearly she should NOT have gone public with this, though….that was dumb. Most people who understand rural life (several of whom have weighed in here at SDA) don’t have a serious problem with this, but she should have expected the vociferous reaction of city-dwellers, who don’t see their dogs as assets and working animals but rather as pets and substitute children.
So bird/gun dogs are another topic that you know nothing about but hold strong opinions?
I’d be appalled if this dog “murdered” that chicken in cold blood. I would like to think that he killed it savagely, gleefully, and triumphally, and took transcendant satisfaction from it. When you’re a beast, fierce proud beast is the way to be. Mind you, if it was my chicken, I’d shoot him too.
Your dog is your dog. It is not my dog; it is the functional equivalent of a coyote. I have no emotional or financial attachment to your animal. I have a large financial and emotional attachment to my hens. I have lost a relatively large number of hens to what appear to be stray dogs that are either hungry or frisky. I have no patience for this as every hen I lose has a long term financial impact on me, my family, and those folks to whom I provide farm fresh eggs.
If you cannot restrain your animal and it is a threat to my domestic animals, my wife, or to me, then woe be to your animal. I will admit, the first dog I dispatched was a bit difficult to do. But, over a decade in the country has inured me to the task.
She isn’t smart enough to STFU when it comes certain things. Wouldn’t want her on any ticket.
Does your dog bite?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iguu-rAdAI4
So she sucks at training dogs. Supposedly lived on a farm and haven’t figured out what untrained, running free, pointer (bird dog) would do? Clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Then, instead of training the dog, she has chosen the lazy easy way out and put a bullet in it?
And she brags about it as if it was some achievement. … Of course SDA tough guys are oh so happy that he actions outraged libtards so embrace her for them. She may be a good governor but taunting her failures as successes is a very libtard thing to do.
” Of course SDA tough guys are oh so happy that he actions outraged libtards so embrace her for them. ”
Well, it was laughably easy to trigger you, wasn’t it?
Sure, every time you demonstrate your stupid it is to “trigger” someone.