I think its an implication, none of the accounts I’ve read describe exactly where she shot the puppy. But to be honest, given she did describe horrifically botching killing the goat just afterwards, I’d say it’s pretty generous to assume she painlessly dispatched the poor animal with a single killing shot to the face.
Not for nothing, but if you’re shooting a 25 pound dog with a shot gun, how do you not get it in the face?
‘Let’s go down to the gravel pit and shoot shit in the face!’
When I was growing up, we did go to the gravel pit to shoot shit. We neglected to shoot anything in the face though.
You woke monsters!
Somebody check and make sure the Governor didn’t shoot him.
Took his quarry and went home after being suspended. Hasn’t posted since.
What is most likely is Noem wrote a book filled with her dull life and dull opinions. No one wanted to read it, but considering this is a VP possibility someone jumped on that grenade. That person sat through this entire dull experience and garnered the only interesting topic anyone could identify with, that of the death of a family pet.
Americans love to tell you what they think of your animal, it’s likely that is why most have them, to talk about them.
Suddenly she’s getting attention and some of it is bad, she thought that bad was coming from puppy hugging liberals so the ideal solution here is to reinforce the ideals of ownership and discipline that may play well to her base and is just the thing to start a national career like Sarah Palin.
The snag is the jokes are too easy, the act too despicable, and the consequence is an explosion on the launch pad that everyone involved deserved and should have seen coming.
Mirth. Mirth, I say. Mirth.
Don’t put your hand in the pickle slicer.
Where did the picture of Cricket come from?
You only keep pictures of well loved pets. Not one you hated. And killed, 15+ years ago.
I would’ve taken that dog in a heartbeat. Those are an excellent breed.
A hound or 'sporting breed are notoriously hard-headed, stubborn. They need to have a job and loads of activity. They can make nice pets, but people need to understand how much work it will be.
If this Noem person hunted, and knew the breed you use for partridge, she should’ve known this.
She is an idiot. Now she’s shown the whole world she’s an idiot.
That’s not how shotguns work,
Shot patterns produced using the same 12-gauge shotgun
with shotshells containing #4 shot pellets
Just have to poke more because she deserves it:
“I hated that kid,” Noem said afterwards. /s
They fired her too.
Also, he stunk. Teenage boys are stinkers. He’d also wrestle with his siblings and ruin their clothes. /s
Hey, any thoughts on nominating Kristi for the Nobel Prize in Peace for uniting all Americans, Democrat and Republican, to a common cause of not shooting puppies in the face then dumping the carcass into a gravel pit?
Beck, who wouldn’t? Like my comment about the horses earlier … someone would have given them a loving home if even if a rescue. And even if taken the pound, someone would have taken Cricket even before the intake paperwork was done.
Interestingly, the Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago will accept any animal (except a human) that is brought in.
Yes, they only have dogs and cats for adoption but, if you brought in an alligator they’d take it and then find somewhere else that will take it.
They originally started to save draft horses in Chicago.
I get that such places are not accessible to everyone (distance) but the point is such places do exist as do other, more specific rescues (as you mentioned).
I suppose shooting your dog is the easiest thing to be rid of it but it is trivial for most people to unload an unwanted dog without killing it.
I think it is about time to go full Godwin here. Quoting Politico:
You know who else killed his dog? That’s right, the Nazi führer’s love of animals may have inspired him to become a vegetarian, but it didn’t stop him from testing the cyanide capsules he planned to use to kill himself on his beloved German shepherd Blondi. The next day, with the Soviet army closing in, Hitler gave another capsule to his wife Eva Braun and then shot himself in the head.
Later that day,