South Dakota governor and possible Trump running mate says she made ‘a choice between [my children] and a dangerous animal’

South Dakota governor and possible Trump running mate says she made ‘a choice between [my children] and a dangerous animal’

The South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Kristi Noem asked the American public to consider having to “make a choice between your children or a dangerous animal”, as she again defended her killing of a 14-month-old dog.

“I would ask everybody in the country to put themselves in that situation,” Noem told CBS’s Face the Nation about her decision to shoot the dog, named Cricket, after the animal ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.

“Because that’s what I faced, and I talked about it because what I’m tired of in this country is politicians who pretend to be something that they’re not.”

Asked why she did not surrender Cricket to an animal shelter before killing the dog, about 20 years ago, Noem repeated her prior claims that the creature was simply untrainable, had tried to bite her, and might have bitten others.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    There is no situation, she is falling on her face because even farmers don’t shoot their animals anymore, let alone their dogs. If you have a big farm, you pay the vet so much money that they will do euthanasia for free. And if you just have a handful of animals, it’s like $20 or $30. They do this as a service so assholes don’t do messy/inhumane executions.