South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, a contender for Donald Trump’s Vice President, has sparked a furious backlash after seemingly bragging about committing heartless acts of animal cruelty that have horrified the nation.
In a sickening forthcoming book, scheduled to hit the shelves next month, Noem details her despicable actions, including the cold-blooded shooting of her own pet puppy, Cricket, whom she callously labeled as “less than worthless.” This poor creature was deemed expendable simply because it didn’t meet her standards of obedience.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog. At that moment… I realized I had to put her down,” she writes.
She then describes taking her gun and taking the dog to a gravel pit to be executed. “It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, according to the outlet, “but it had to be done”.
But the horror doesn’t end there. Noem callously admitted to also slaughtering a defenseless goat, branding it as “nasty and mean.”
Her lack of empathy knows no bounds as she casually recounts how she missed her first shot and callously returned to finish the job, all while a construction crew looked on in disbelief.
These shocking revelations have sparked outrage across the nation, with many labeling Noem as “sick and twisted” and “trash.”
Former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews rightly questioned why anyone would boast about such heinous acts unless they were deranged.
“I’m not sure why anyone would brag about this unless they’re sick and twisted,” Matthews wrote.
“Kristi Noem is trash,” wrote Rick Wilson, of anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project.
He also pointed out that responsible pet owners don’t resort to senseless violence when faced with training challenges.
“Decades with hunting- and bird-dogs, and the number I’ve killed because they were chicken-sharp or had too much prey drive is ZERO. Puppies need slow exposure to birds, and bird-scent. She killed a puppy because she was lazy at training bird dogs, not because it was a bad dog.
“Not every dog is for the field, but 99.9% of them are trainable or re-homeable. We have one now who was never going in the field, but I didn’t kill her. She’s sleeping on the couch.”
“You down old dogs, hurt dogs, and sick dogs humanely, not by shooting them and tossing them in a gravel pit.”
In a scathing statement, Colleen O’Brien of PETA blasted Noem for her lack of understanding of basic concepts like compassion and compromise.
“Most Americans love their dogs, and we suspect that they will 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 would provide her with a proper home,” Ms O’Brien said.
Noem’s cold-blooded admissions reveal a disturbing lack of compassion and humanity, and her attempts to justify her cruelty as mere farm life realities are utterly unacceptable. It’s clear that she is unfit for any position of power or responsibility.
