The South Dakota governor has faced days of criticism from her fellow Republicans and Democrats, alike, after admitting to killing one of her own puppies.
A video showing a dog reacting in fear to South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has gone viral on social media, after she admitted to killing one of her own puppies in a gravel pit following a pheasant hunting trip—however, the clip is not real.
In recent days, Republican Noem has faced a wave of backlash after British newspaper The Guardian published an excerpt of her upcoming book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward. In the book, the governor shared an account of shooting a 14-month-old puppy named Cricket, which she wrote had an „aggressive personality.“
On the way home from the trip, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked a family’s chickens, „grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.“
This made the chickens‘ owner cry and Noem paid them while also helping clean up the mess the dog had made. She added that when she grabbed Cricket, the dog „whipped around to bite me.“
„At that moment, I realized I had to put her down, the governor wrote, adding that she „hated that dog,“ describing Cricket as „untrainable“ and „dangerous to anyone she came in contact with.
