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<\/div>\nKristi Noem is a contender to become Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Kristi Noem, a contender to become Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, has stirred controversy after she said that she killed a family dog and a goat.<\/p>\n
Noem, who is also the governor of South Dakota, said in her upcoming memoir that she killed an “untrainable” dog called Cricket on her family farm.<\/p>\n
She said that the 14-month-old dog behaved like a “trained assassin,” and was “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with.”<\/p>\n
In her memoir, excerpts of which were first published by The Guardian<\/a> on Friday,\u00a0Noem also said that she “hated” the dog, which ruined a hunt and attacked chickens owned by a local family.<\/p>\n “I realized I had to put her down,” she wrote, adding that she got her gun and then led Cricket to a gravel pit.<\/p>\n Noem also said that her family owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean” because it had not been castrated.<\/p>\n The goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.<\/p>\n She wrote that she decided to kill the goat the same way she had just killed her dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n Reacting to the excerpts, Joe Biden’s Democratic Party called them “horrifying” and “disturbing” and tried to make a 2024 election argument about the shooting of the animals.<\/p>\n “If you want elected officials who don’t brag about brutally killing their pets as part of their self-promotional book tour, then listen to our owners – and vote Democrat,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement, giving voice to the dogs.<\/p>\n People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decried Kristi Noem’s decision to kill the dog and said that she fails to understand the vital political concepts of education<\/p>\n Colleen O’Brien, senior director at PETA<\/a>, said, “Most Americans love their dogs, and we suspect that they’ll consider Gov. Noem a psychotic loony for letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to personally blow her brains out rather than attempting to train her or find a more responsible guardian who could provide her with a proper home.”<\/p>\n “Noem obviously fails to understand the vital political concepts of education, cooperation, compromise, and compassion,” she said in an official statement.<\/p>\n Kristi Noem<\/a>, however, defended herself against the attacks over her account of shooting her dog.<\/p>\n Taking to her official X account, she said, “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”<\/p>\n We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.<\/p>\n If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/bKhpUkchHV<\/a><\/p>\nPETA Slams Kristi Noem<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Kristi Noem Defends Herself<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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