Kristi Noem defends killing her own puppy

She killed a puppy for acting like a puppy and scaring birds during a hunt. It was 14 months old and sounds like it had zero training. So she takes it to a gravel pit and shoots it. A puppy. For being excited by birds. And it wasn't trained how to behave around birds.

And then she writes on Twitter that her autobiography has more stories that will upset the press. She is actually psychotic.

Animal cruelty. Why isn't she charged?
- Is that even a thing? In the u.s they treat dogs as property
- Putting down a dog without a good reason isn't animal cruelty most places if you put it down humanely.
  
  This weird and gross and downright disturbing, but it isn't animal cruelty unless she shot it in the stomach to watch it bleed out or something. Which honestly, she may have for all we know, she's obviously unhinged or very, very dumb.
- it’s still early…
- Sounds like she did it a favour
  
  🤮
Did I miss something? That was a shitty example to back up her angle that the dog was untrainable or whatever. The real "reason" was the puppy killed a bunch of the neighbor's chickens. That is a fact, as in order of events. The motivation could be many other things, such as: not wanting the bad PR, trying to smooth things over with a neighbor, legitimate guilt/empathy/something for the neighbor losing their chickens as some families may be really attached to their chickens either emotionally and/or financially.

etc wow I don't mind saying something that is unpopular but I very much do mind people thinking I'm defending animal cruelty or that I find it anything less than awful and heartless. I was questioning specifically what the comment said about killing a puppy FOR being a puppy. When I said the motivation could have been anything else, I meant she could have killed the puppy for any of those awful reasons too but I did not understand how killing chickens = being a puppy, which someone did kindly answer for me. Clearly I expressed myself very poorly.
- The puppy was being trained for hunting. Meaning she killed her for doing exactly what she was being trained to do. Of course she wouldn't know there are some animals she shouldn't chase.
  
  Oh, and this is not a one-off thing from Noem either. She also mentions shooting and killing a male goat for "chasing her kids".
  
  In any case, I worry when someone's solution to completely fixable issues with other living beings is to just kill them.
- The thing is she wasn't sad to have to do it. She said she "hated" the puppy.

When I was young I used to live in rural town and had a puppy that was tough to train. I found the puppy a new home with someone that had the time to train it. I didn’t shoot the dog and blame it on living in a rural county.

I assume you're too good a person to be nominee for VP though
- Well, they certainly can't be a republican VP.
Dare I say it....What Would Jesus Do?? 😂
THIS!

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: all the signs of a psychopath

That will be her unique selling point for republican voters
- I find it scary, but you're right. Acting decently with respect for those around you is no longer what it takes to win votes. Instead, you should kill puppies, not give a fuck about killing puppies, and deny that you ever did that, despite the actual proof that you did it. Then you'll get all the votes. Because... amerikah
right fit for the job actually
She's literally wearing the right hat.

Buy a bird dog.
WTF, this dog is OBSESSED with birds.
Let dog run loose.
Dog catches birds.
Bird dog is happy for catching birds.
UNACCEPTABLE!
Shoot dog.

Nobody understands, this dog was a maniac around birds!

“I took my dog hunting and it killed a chicken instead of the bird I wanted it to kill, so I shot my dog” is one hell of a take, eh?
- I agree with you on everything else. But bird dogs aren't for killing birds. They locate and/or retrieve.

I get that social media seems to be a constant stream of outrage with nobody actually caring, but I think this story might actually derail her.

There are articles in Fox News, NY Post, and other conservative media outlets about this. They are fairly critical. The fox news one includes tweets from a "country boy" who is like "there's a difference between taking an old animal out back and a fucking puppy".

Best case scenario, she didn’t train the dog well… that’s not a great reason to murder it
People are crazy.

I saw the movie 'Enter The Dragon' in theaters dozens of times back when grind houses were a thing. Every time some thug got killed the crowd cheered. The minute the villain threatened to kill his own cat people were horrified.
- Humans are sapient, while some other animals can claim the same title as well most cant. Humans can be introspective but most animals fundamentally cannot, there are lots of good reason to kill a human animals should only be killed for food or necessity.
- people don’t like thugs. thugs are dangerous and bad for society. so social creatures like humans naturally cheer them getting creamed. baby animals that are pets? hint: one thing isn’t a different thing. context. it’s what gives meaning.
- Faked out again.
i think so too. killing a puppy is pretty generally reviled here. and rightly so.

She also had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago. Wonder what they did, eat too much hay? Whinney too much in excitement? Perhaps they were just untrainable as well... Things that don't serve a purpose must die. Ah, that's leadership.

She was training them to speak like Mr. Ed but they wouldn't utter a word regardless of how much peanut butter she fed them therefore they had to go.
- That wasn’t what she was using the peanut butter for…

She posted that she "...just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago".

Again as a person who grew up in the country around livestock, WTF is she doing that she had to put down multiple horses? Maybe she should really reconsider any form of animal husbandry because they sure as fuck sound like completely incompetent ranchers.

Yeah horses don’t die that frequently and that close together. To shoot two in one week, too shoot them! Instead of vet euthanization. Wild.
- You have to get the whole horse bloodline. If you leave any alive you'll be spending the rest of your life in fear everytime you hear hoof steps behind you.
- I recall a story where my grampa had to do that to a cow. But that was ages ago out in the country where there were no vets and no other better means or knowledge.
Maybe she just can't stop at killing just a single horse.

Once you pop, you can't stop.
Maybe she should be prosecuted for animal abuse.
- At minimum she needs to be investigated.

Kristi Noem is a dog murdering psycho cunt. I wish her a lifetime of UTIs, hangnails, yeast infections, and congested sinuses.

Edit: added UTIs

I hope she catches her new fake teeth on a door frame.
- Yes!
Can we add UTI's?
- Torsion is not just for testicles, and may have the added bonus of preventing reproduction.
- Added.
- Absofuckinglutely.

Bitch you could have re-homed the dog to someone who actually knows what the fuck they’re doing.

Kristi Noem is a certified piece of shit and shame on whichever Dakota voted her in.

Wow, fuck this person. What an unhinged thing to admit to in your own fucking book. Who thought that would be a good idea?

Someone who wanted to get her in the news.
- Grab them by the puppy.

She had to put down three horses in one week?

Unless there's some sort of horse pandemic I'm unaware of, that sounds even worse.

She thinks that the public is mad that animals die on a farm. No, she is not grasping the fact that she killed animals unnecessarily and pointlessly.
- Lack of empathy, the understanding of other's perspectives, is the hallmark of a psychopath.
Wait what?? Is this a book about her history of torturing and killing animals? Is she coming out as a serial killer?
The horses were put down because they were too horse like you idiot /s

The focusing on the puppy and not the “she liked it so much that she went and killed a goat slowly” is odd

Wait what?
- She shot the dog, which obviously felt really good to her because she immediately found a goat to kill afterwards, only this one took multiple bullets.

Where the fuck is John Wick when you need him ...

Is there any meaningful difference between her, Lauren Boebert, and Sara Palin?

Michelle Bachman thanks you for forgetting her and her life partner Marcus...
- I fully memory holed her.
There’s crazy and then there’s “murder dogs” crazy
- I wouldn’t suggest Boebert isn’t “murder puppies” crazy.
Sure. One of them has boobs that point north.
Sara and Lauren are just idiots, not psychos.
- Hunting wolves from a helicopter, and illegally giving underaged waitresses guns, don't count them out.

"It's coming right at us!"

I mean, how can you expect to be the orange man's VP if you can't kill a defenseless puppy? /s

Fuck you, psychopath. My animals love me because I love them and would never let anyone hurt them. Wtf

Sometimes you need to offer people rope to hang themselves, sometimes you need to offer people shovels to dig their own grave.

…She must own her own hardware store

A very disgusting thing to say.

It's not the saying part that bothers me
- Patton Oswalt told me "I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy." And I disagree. I thought it was the raping. - Norm MacDonald.

I thought this was an Onion article, and a far stretched one at that. Jesus fucking Christ.

She is another performative politician. Don't give her clicks

Somehow I don’t think reading a Mother Jones article counts as giving her any clicks
- We are talking about her, aren't we? The media is continuously giving these performative rightwingers free advertising.

Hunting dogs used for hunting aren't generally part of a farm operation, and hunting dog puppies aren't expected to behave at full performance, either. It's hard to pull much from the horse statement itself, but in this context it isn't helpful and looks really bad.

Making America great again, one dead puppy at the time

You know generally I'm against the death penalty and I'm all up and down threads like these advocating for that not to be the case, because, you know, people get raised in certain environments, we can't really know whether or not someone's really committed a crime sometimes, blanket death penalty is bad, yadda yadda ya. You know, consistency in principles.

but fuck me man this lady needs to be crushed by a big rock or something

I am anti death penalty but pro big rock crushing
Nice try big big rock

this isn’t shows how futile it is to try to shame such people into being halfway decent. it’s not possible.

Sounds like an ideal running mate for Trump.

Dare I say, this might make her too weird even for Trump. As much of a wretched excuse for a human being as Trump is, and despite the fact that he’s a known dog hater, he’s at least aware enough of public perception to know that puppy murder = bad.

When I was barely a teenager our neighbor’s dog came into our property and killed/ate all of our chickens.

We later learned that they ended up shooting the dog. The “common sense” regarding this was that once dogs get a taste for chicken they will never stop coming back to get more.

I don’t know if that’s true and in our situation it wasn’t a puppy but this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of a dog being killed for eating chickens.

Couldn't they just have, I don't know, kept the dog on a fucking leash like the rest of civilized society?
- We lived in the sticks with 10’s of acres of land per family.
  
  They could have. But I don’t know anyone who did except for those who lived in town.
- A dog is not a house-pet. It needs to move and get exercise.
  
  If you keep it on a leash, it will just get depressed and suffer. And that certainly isn't better.
I don’t know if that’s true

I'm like 90% sure it's not, it's just one of those things that people do as a kind of "common sense" solution, because dogs are generally seen as a pretty disposable object. Like how they used to kill, and maybe still do kill idk, any animal that kills or attacks a person, just kind of on the basis that "that there animal is a man killer. ain't no goin' back from that, it's got a taste for it now.". Just dumb shit.
They killed the dog because they were pissed about the chickens and the dogs life is worth less than the time spent to train it properly.

They probably just got a new dog and rolled the dice that this one wouldn't like chicken as much.

Not responsible pet owners.

What sets this ladies story apart is that she killed the dog and then looked around for what else she could kill. Because she liked the feeling it gave her.
The "common sense" is you control your fucking dog. If you have to kill it to do so, you're a failure as a pet owner and as a person.

This has nothing to do with animals, and the incidents probably never even happened.

She is advocating for the return of concentration camps and gas chambers.

I wouldn't put it past her.

Is this the woman who also killed that bear for sport?

No surprise there - she's a crass opportunist with no principles and no empathy; what else is she going to do?

It's likely that she isn't even dissembling - that she's sincerely defending her actions because she's so psychologically crippled that she genuinely can't see how anyone could legitimately take exception to them.

Remember when Mit Romney drove around for vacation with the dog on the car's roof storage bin?

By comparison Mit wins this round...I mean time count vs bullet count.

Jesus fuck.

But a line must be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is revealing that you killed your 14-month-old wirehair pointer for acting like a puppy.

Appeal to emotion, Mother Jones. And not a very good one. Do better.

Way to hold them to a higher standard! /s

Don't you have some Democrats to be criticizing?
- Puppy: a young domestic dog; specifically : one less than a year old