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From our „What Was She Thinking“ department, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is in the news this weekend because she shot and killed her dog.
We know this because Noem wrote about it in her autobiography, „No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.“ The book will be out on May 7, according to Amazon but someone at Amazon decided the book would benefit from some pre-publication buzz. They handed an advance copy to the far-left publication, The Guardian.
Mission accomplished. The media is buzzing.
Noem, who has been prominently mentioned as a possible running mate for Donald Trump, was trying to demonstrate that she „believes sometimes difficult tasks must be carried out, and that she is not afraid to do so,“ according to the Hill. That might be the most charitable take on the matter.
The „difficult task“ was the execution of her dog, a wire-haired pointer named „Cricket.“ Cricket was, according to Noem, an aggressive, fun-loving dog as many pointers are. But Cricket refused to be trained. Even after fitting the dog with an electronic collar, Cricket still resisted being obedient.
The last straw occurred on a hunting trip. Noem writes that she thought Cricket, who was only 14 months old, would benefit from hunting with older, more experienced dogs. Instead, Cricket blew up the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.“
On the way home from the hunt, Noem stopped to talk to a local family when Cricket escaped the pick-up truck and made a bee-line straight for the family’s chickens.
