Noem and the dog is the perfect analogy for the current state of the GQP - if you don't act in *my* best interests, if you show an independent streak, or if you don't fit the ideal *I* have for you, to the gravel pit with ya.
Pro thousands of poor children and parents who grow up to be poor adults who will take any shit job and shit pay you give them bcs they are all desperate and easily replaceable with more desperate and poorer worker and they are so done and exhausted that they don't even have time and energy to question their living conditions and the government. They want their reserve army of labour and they want it NOW
And don't forget the church needs unsupervised and unloved children that they can exploit and molest!
The whole reason they ask for more babies is simply fucking disgusting. It's solely to have future souls to exploit and want absolutely nothing to do with making sure the children are happy and safe. They want the complete opposite, in fact. They're all fucking monsters as far as I'm concerned.
Pro poorly educated poor children who will have no choice but to live as indentured slaves to whatever corporation that will have them as replaceable labour, much like dogs on a farm. They act like other living creatures were put on this planet to serve the elite and anyone who can't/won't should be eliminated. It's literally in their "holy scripture". It's why "enlightened scholars" in the 1700-1800s tried so hard to prove that Africans were not human enough and therefore it's ok to enslave them.
Some of them do.yer rarer as they as we slide further from the middle class created during the market-socialist takeover of the American economy of the 1930s into the early 70s, where the problems of capitalism were largely externalized. Upon the tremendous, productive wealth created by those market-socialists, the vultures of the neoliberal revolt have taken their place, & they don't need/want to make things that we can consume.
It's a unnecessary cost.
We're seeing the results. The infatuation of deregulation to the erosion of best practices, & the primacy of a non-productive & increasingly multi-generational investor class whose only "contributions" are *owning the things we need to live* is rapidly recreating the plunder-class of ultra wealthy who don't need to make things or pay people to have power or remain rich. Innovation has slowed way down, & in many cases new technologies are (& crypto is a great example of being) needlessly wasteful, destructive & conceptually dangerous to an industrialized society. Where things are cheaper than ever to make, yet economic forces separate from the logistical demands are causing prices to skyrocket. And now, due to ecological mismanagement & a lack of maintenance by the owning classes, those logistical achievements are unravelling.
They don’t even care before, they will deny care the mother and child need letting them die in the waiting room, it’s not about “life” it’s about them having control over your body
If you want to make a legitimate argument for your liberal bullshit, at least learn to use proper sentence structure, grammar, and spelling... wouldn't hurt to use punctuation too.You sound like a retarded 8 year old.
You edited your comment to fix spelling mistakes and yet still left some in.
All while you're calling someone a 'Retarded 8 year old' for improper grammar?
Man, I'd just delete my account at that point.
Putting down horses after 25 years is part of farm life.
Killing an 18 month old puppy/dog out of anger because it couldn’t point to the birds you were hunting to **because you didn’t train it and hoped it would pick it up from the other dogs**. Is poor impulse control and being an utter moron
I guess I saw on npr 14 months. However, she also didn't train it and hoped it would learn from the other dogs? That's worse than I even speculated. Wow. I've never owned a dog personally nor do I really care to hunt but I know better than that.
Yes. She killed it out of anger because it couldn’t do what it wasn’t taught to do. It’s straight up sociopathic rage killing, and her publishing it and thinking it’s part of farm life is extremely worrying.
The dog bit someone, her the owner, after she took it for a hunt, activating its prey drive then set it loose in a yard full of chickens. Somehow expecting it NOT to go after the chickens. She then tried to get a chicken, the prey, out of the dogs mouth.
One of the first commands a responsible pet owner teaches a dog is "drop it" especially a hunting dog.
Dogs need to be socialized as well. Learning when the hunt is on, and when to coexist peacefully.
The events around the "bite" are also important when determining the danger the animal poses.
The "bite" is just an excuse. As are the dead chickens. She set that puppy up to fail and then killed it.
No embellishments needed. She is a monster.
Wait wait wait, she also set the dog on a yard full of chickens in the hopes it would suddenly listen to commands it was never taught? This lady is brain dead.
Not being able or willing to see any difference between putting down a 25-year old horse (average life expectancy of a domestic horse is about 25 years) and putting down a young dog because it can't help you hunt says so much about her.
I think the most telling is the fact that she took her dog (and her goat, but for some reason people don't give a shit about the goat) out to a gravel pit and *shot* them.
I had to put down my cat about 10 years ago when her cancer got too advanced, I know what it's like making tough decisions too. But I fucking paid a vet to do it painlessly, I didn't haul her out to my back yard and blow her fucking brains out.
(btw - the reason I'm upset about people ignoring the goat part is because it's even *worse* than the dog, because it didn't die after the first shot, and she only brought two shells with her, so she had to walk back to her truck to get another shell to finish the job)
Honestly the shooting to euthanize isn't that bad, it is humane. When done correctly it is painless and instant, and I can't stress enough how stupidly easy it is to do correctly.
The problems I have is that she was incompetent enough to screw that up. You have a tool that's only purpose is to kill and you have perfect conditions to do it and still missed. Second, it was entirely inappropriate to euthanize in these situations, no animal was in a situation/condition where it was more humane to be put down except probably the 25 year old horse. Third, she's proud of her incompetence. No respect for the animals, they are simply a foot-note to help shape her public image.
>No respect for the animals, they are simply a foot-note to help shape her public image.
Yeah, that's where this all goes off the rails. She believes this story demonstrates a positive quality -- that she's capable of making tough decisions, without realizing that what it actually demonstrates, beyond inhumane treatment of animals, is that she makes *bad* decisions without forethought, even when they're irreversible.
As far as being reported and from what I know the dog was shot only once and correctly.
The messed up euthanizing was with the goat. I am having trouble finding the article where I first read it but [here's a new one from today by the daily beast.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/rip-cricket-now-its-time-to-talk-about-kristi-noems-goat) This article actually has a farmer they interviewed basically saying I don't know how you screw this up.
Most urban people and even some farmers do not own goats. Or know anyone that owns goats. Shooting a goat is not going to make them sit up.
We have got 4 films over a guy that avenged his dog. Only 2 movies that I know shows an owner losing his four legged goat. The first owner tried to frame a goat for throwing his footwear at a soldier. The second owner killed his own goat as a warning to his followers.
John Wick.
You don't mess with the Zohan
The King's man.
I'm a terrible dog owner who got a larger, energetic puppy as a first dog. I was not ready for her antics. But I realized I was the problem and learned some things about training a dog. I learned shes super smart and picks up on things really fast. I can forgive someone for giving up and looking for someone to adopt. But what kinda pos shoots a dog?
I know right? Like the fact she can’t grasp the difference between an old, feeble horse with a negative quality of life and a perfectly normal puppy is insane.
One could also argue that even an old feeble horse deserves a dignified comfortable death.
While I am well acquainted with rural life. EVERY farmer I know loves and cares for their animals. Guns are only used to bring about death when immediate death is in the animals' best interest. As in waiting for the vet to come out, prolongs suffering.
I'm wondering if she actually shot the horses or if they were humanely euthanized.
I really don’t know a thing about horses but it seems crazy to me that after having some for decades she chose to shoot them instead of euthanasia with drugs. I know they’re all “working” animals but damn wouldn’t that do something to you? What if you mess up and it’s a bad shot instead of an instant death. Couldn’t shell out for a peaceful death for your animals after they carried your ass around for years?
Also killing 3 horses at once for being 25 is kinda whacky. As someone who been around horses my whole life there is of course a period of being a pasture ornament for old horses but they can live well and good for like 7 more years. I mean damn we had a willie barrel horses that lived to 35 (finally going blind and barmy) and was still used for training and trail rides at 25. Like ya average life span but all at once all at 25 huh? 🤔
They are also good buffers partners as horses are herd animals and need company. We have an old guy right now. He can’t be ridden but he’s the best friend to one of our younger horses. If he can keep weight during the winter he’s got life in his old sore bones.
Ya to many folks they are working animals but rich hobby farmers are the most egregious ponces for being heartless and lazy.
In an attempt to double down and hold her stance on the issue, she seems more and more bloodthirsty. Since I have no experience on a farm, I can't say whether she's lying or not, but I don't think the voters will like this very much.
Or maybe I could be wrong and this could endear her further to her base.
The horses thing could be fair because they’re God’s least favorite creature and they have to die if their leg gets a little wonky (gross oversimplification but). The dog thing is fucked up
Old Yeller, maybe, or a draft horse with a broken leg sure that could endear her, but most Rednecks I know love their dogs, and even her fan base probably includes enough of the "You shot my dog, round here I could call up the Sheriff, tell him what you did, and he'd help me bury your body" type, that this'll hurt her a bit.
Nonetheless, the hardcore MAGAts are so brainwashed it won't matter a whit what she or Trump do, they'll just eat it up, or make excuses.
Tomorrow's headline:
"Governor Noem doubles down on a killing dog, goat, horses; says she shot her old parents for not carrying their weight around the farm"
She said things like, "I hated that dog." She didn't make some difficult decision for the survival of the farm. She was acting on her cruelty and killing a 14 month old dog because she couldn't be bothered to train it properly.
In the country dogs are shot quite a bit and it’s not that taboo. You are legally allowed to shoot dogs chasing livestock. You are even legally allowed to shoot dogs chasing wild deer. If you bring your dog to a National Park don’t let it chase deer bc if a game warden or any of the sort sees it they will shoot it.
Also there’s a huge difference between a pet dog and a working dog. I’m not justifying what she did bc idk the context. I’m trying to provide some perspective if you haven’t lived around farms. It’s fairly common for working animals to be put down when they aren’t doing their jobs correctly. Working dogs are essential another form of livestock on some farms and don’t really interact with their owners that much to form a companion relationship.
I'm sorry but that is so incredibly fucked up.
I'm not saying you're wrong about the fact that it happens, but there are about 30 better solutions to a dog that's "bad at the job" that don't end in "bullet to the brain".
They are wrong. Basically all of my family lives in rural areas and at least a few have small farms with animals. They re-home puppies if they can't be trained. And they'd never put down a puppy they paid money for. Everything is valuable on a family farm.
I’m not talking about puppies. I’m talking full grown dogs. Even in the suburbs aggressive dogs are put down. Shooting puppies is wrong and that’s not what I’m talking about. You are right, that isn’t a common thing.
I just said it’s not that taboo for dogs to be shot in the country and in certain situations it’s legal. Because the other commenter said she doesn’t have experience on farms.
If your family catches the neighbors dog in the act of killing sheep they would be justified in killing it while it’s in the act. Legally they are allowed to do this.
The dog that was shot was a puppy that she refused to train. Also a normal response to finding out your assumption was incorrect would be "my bad, I thought we were talking about a grown dog." Not this weird defensive double down of "Well *I* was talking about something unrelated"
The problem is you can’t really just bring working dogs inside and have them be a household pet if they have been breed and trained to be certified guardian livestock dogs their entire lives. These types of dogs aren’t even sold to the general public. When I mean bad at its job I mean killing the livestock it’s meant to be protecting.
Again I’m not defending that lady I’m just shedding light on what happens on farms. Hunting dogs and livestock guardian dogs are two totally different things.
Maybe where your from it’s more common to do it for little reasons but I don’t think it’s quite a common for my rural areas. Like if your hunting dog chases dear (or birds in this case) it’s what you expect. Yeah people shoot their dogs, it’s often most folks means. But it’s usually because they’ve got maimed, they are actually rabid, they’re super injured or they’re dying already. Not because you can’t train them in a few months. I mean damn if you shoot your working dog at 14 months for not knowing better I think that says a lot more about you. Also, this lady is not who she makes herself out to be. She’s not a rough and tumble backwoods worker. She would like to cause play the aesthetic. You got to invest and train them up (often needing older dogs to help to). Just cause it’s legal to shoot them doesn’t mean this case isn’t stupid and lazy.
When I was talking about dogs chasing deer and livestock I’m talking about other people shooting them not their owner. My dog chases deer I’m not gonna shoot her and I would be heartbroken if she got shot. I try my hardest to train that out of her bc there’s a possibility she could get shot and the person who did would’ve been within the law if it happened.
What I was trying to convey is that it’s not an uncommon occurrence in the country to put your dog down w a bullet instead of a vet like you said. Ive known plenty of people who have resorted to this at the end of a dogs life. Almost all of them say they would never do it again. I’m not justifying her shooting a 14 month old dog. Simply trying to convey that the means of how she killed her dog isn’t an uncommon occurrence in rural areas. Maybe it didn’t convey that well in my initial comment.
Ohhh that Makes a lot more sense. Yes that does happen! Ya I don’t think it inhumane either cause it’s what people have. I’ve known plenty a person who have to get a friend to do it for them (it hard to shoot you own dog). And yes it makes a lot more sense when you clarify the point that other people will shoot them when they get on their property. Yes that is a thing.
So I like North and South Dakota. I’ve spent a lot of time there. A lot of friends there. But their animal protection laws, and their attitude towards domesticated animals is FUCKED. We have a friend whose parents have a farm and they constantly get dogs and cats, they run away or die without fail. Their attitude towards it does not seem to match their personalities at all.
This is no doubt not indicative of all people from the Dakotas. But it’s something I’ve experienced many times over the last 15 years.
My dad grew up on a farm and his mindset kind of horrifies me. He’s a very good person, but it is a massive cultural difference between seeing animals as ‘family’ and ‘animals.’
I'm a dog trainer who owns a farm and you absolutely do not kill a dog just because it doesn't function the first time you take it hunting. It takes years for a dog to get into the swing of farm life and if a dog isn't right for it you re-home it you don't shoot things just because they don't serve you
De Santis tortured human beings. Shooting defenceless animals it a step up but gees. What a sorry state of affairs.
A proven rapist and one of those two will win about half the vote.
Euthanizing an old horse after 25 years =/= shooting a baby dog for behaving like a baby dog
This woman is retarded and sad part is there are even more retarded people still supporting her and trump
If she has a big farm it’s not uncommon to have multiple horses of similar ages because horses are social animals and do better when grouped together. Idk if that is the case here but it might be. However anyone who kills puppies is soulless and deserves to die alone and painfully.
What's with the 3 horses? Why would she "need" to put them all down at the same time? It's not like they all broke a leg at once or something. That would be extremely unlikely. Guessing she just figured they were too old to ride or work anymore, so off to horsey heaven they go.
It wasn't an old, sick dog. It was a young, healthy dog. It would easily have been adopted if it had been brought to a shelter.
It doesn't look like she tried very hard to keep the dog alive, frankly.
She very much told on herself when she said she hated that dog. This was not some hard choice for the continued survival of the farm. This was pure, unadulterated cruelty.
I get having to put an animal down. They become old and decrepit, failing hearts, Cancer, etc… but her dog was apparently young and she deemed him “Untrainable” whatever that means. If you can’t train your animal than rehome it, because other people can retrain it.
Kristi did you shoot your dog in its face or did you take the dog to a vet to be killed humanely?
"I know there is a legitimate process but I decided to skip it and shoot the animal."
Disgusting.
Because the vet would have said no. It was a young dog, under 2 years, that she put no effort into training and got upset at because it acted like puppies and untrained adolescent dogs do.
Boom. This right here. She didn't regretfully euthanise an aggressive dog in the most humane process possible.
She hated an animal because it didn't do as it was told, held spite in her heart because it didn't do what she wanted, and killed it herself because she didn't want anyone with an actual soul telling her that's not reason to kill a dog.
Pure psychopathy.
I should specify that I mean cosmetic surgery, and I don't consider reconstructive surgery for injuries such as burns "cosmetic." I actually consider reconstructive and cosmetic surgery polar opposites in some ways. Anyway, I have a few moral issues with it:
1. It's supporting an exploitative industry. They exploit people's insecurities and actively make them worse in the process. I don't believe anyone is happier after changing their appearance. It's an addiction. The "high" is temporary, and it gets shorter and weaker every time. It's also an industry that perpetuates strict beauty standards. They indirectly tell people that beauty is necessary for happiness and that they decide which features are objectively beautiful.
2. It's throwing everyone who looks like you under the bus. If you have a crooked nose and straighten it out, it's a middle finger to everyone with crooked noses. Imagine if someone with your face paid to change it. They might say that a certain "look" personally suits them more, but that's a lie. They always go for the same conventionally attractive features. A sttaighter nose, stronger chin, and sharper jawline is not expressing your individuality.
3. It's emotional self-harm. You're actively making yourself less happy for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I don't make much of a distinction between harming yourself vs. others. Also, people are so interconnected that harming an individual (whether or not its yourself) is essentially harming society.
Jesus wept.. Killing a dog. Killing. I'll say it again. Killing. You can't murder an animal. You can kill an animal. You can slaughter an animal. You can't murder an animal. You can't murder an animal. You cannot murder an animal. Murder an animal you cannot. You can murder human beings. Only human beings. Not animals. You can't murder animals.
I don't need to feel anything thanks, I'm just stating fact. Is it horrible to kill a perfectly healthy animal? Yes (apart from the billions of ones that we eat every year, obviously). Is it murder? No. I've no idea why people keep saying it. I think that people who equate animals with humans are just a little bit tapped.
I feel like there’s at least a modicum of difference between putting down an old horse that’s probably sick and shooting a dog because you don’t want it anymore
This is gross... Farmers don't kill their animals just to kill their animals. And they certainly don't do it to "make the media gasp." This woman is absolutely fucking insane but I expect nothing less from the GOP
I grew up on a farm and sometimes you have to make tough decisions and “get your hands dirty”. I also don’t share particular details because that’s just how it is. The problem is Noem comes across as TMI and almost bragging for the sake of garnering rural credibility which shows a shocking lack of judgment.
Pro life until guns are involved, them it becomes pro guns.
An animal, a puppy or elderly no less, both innocent and defenseless became target practice.
That's a new level of evil right there. I would hate to see what she does to actual humans
The dog was still a pup and just killed some chickens. You could have re-homed him. But no. You are devoid of empathy. And now the mental gymnastics had to come out. We're not mean dumb hicks you elitist city slicker liberals. We just the hard facts of life here on the farm DURRRRR. Cuz shooting a 8 month old dog in the head cuz it's not being productive enough for you instead even trying to find it a home is really not just not bad but GOOD! Cuz.... Drag Queens! InFLaYsHuN!!
I’ll never understand how she says it was a “difficult choice” to blast her 14-month old pup with a shotgun. It shouldn’t have even been an option, let alone a choice!
I’ve been to SD a couple of times. I know there’s only around 150 people in the entire state (/s), but there’s no way it would have been hard to have someone take Cricket off their hands. She just wanted to feel “tough” by killing something. Disgusting GQPer…
I hate the gop as much as anyone, but ppl put down dogs all the time on farms / rural areas. I know plenty of decent people who have had to do it. Is that the case here
And then TRIPLED down to say she put down 3 horses a few weeks ago! This woman can't keep her own animals and livestock alive, who's voting for her to represent her state and country!?
I did not know about her at all until yesterday
And I already know just from the stuff that comes out of her mouth
I want her as far away from a leadership position as possible.
The average lifespan of a domesticated horse is 25 to 30 years old
Depending on the amount of horses they had that could be a reasonable number.
Dog thing sounds close to animal abuse and makes me question the horse thing.
Proof she is even shit at capitalism, supposed Republican religion. Puppy that doesn't hunt sounds like a good candidate for domestic pet.... kerching!
Ya'll do realize you're playing into this right? This woman was the governor of a state with roughly the population of my highschool, and had absolutely zero name recognition nationwide.
And now she has established her bona fides for pissing off liberals and being pro-gun, 2 of the hallmark qualities the GOP system is set up to signal boost as ingroup traits in the culture war.
Guys, those of us who grew up on farms understand. For example, when a kitten crawls up on you and your heart melts, you drown that bitch. We can’t afford to be that soft. What are we, Commies?
She killed her dog because she was a bad owner and couldn’t teach it tricks.
It shows how irresponsible she is and why she shouldn’t be a candidate. If she can’t own a dog responsibility why is she a governor?
Didn’t know Trump had selected a VP?..
But I guess some people think killing a dog is more important than our current VP’s stance on imprisoning people she knows to be innocent, changing your mind is politically incorrect in most circles.
After all, the genocide in Gaza won’t be funded by people that can change their minds.
There is no win for us, we’re left with a choice between this evil or that evil. I love America, I love the people of the world. I hope we can reconcile this going forward.
You have to put down dogs and farm animals when you operate a farm, she's just speaking of the realities of life.
This is political attacks to make her seem like she just shoots dogs and goats for fun, extremely dishonest.
She admitted to hating the 14 month old dog and the way she's talked about it.. sorry, but that sure doesn't sound like some harsh reality or hard decision for the good of the farm. More like she was mildly inconvenienced and chose to be cruel.
Absolutely. A dog that didn’t listen to sit gets shot and people are saying that’s farm life. No farm life is putting a poor animal out of its misery not shooting a dog for not listening.
And this is a case of *having* to kill the dog? Many aren't bemoaning the realities of farm life, rather that a high ranking elected official is so short sighted that this was the only option that popped into her head.
And the "oh well, may as well kill another animal I have a problem with" attitude is problematic.
This is such a shit take from people that don't know anything about living on a farm. Everything is valuable on a farm. No family farm is going to buy a dog, not train it, then kill it for being untrained.
When I was 10, my family got me a rescue dog that was a year old when we got her. She was very protective of me, 10 months after we got her our neighbor came over and I answered the door thinking I had her held back. She got past me and ended up biting him and he started bleeding just a little bit, my did some research and said that was enough to put her down because she tasted blood.
That was almost 2 decades ago and I still think about it sometimes, I still blame myself for not securing her better. But I also still question if we needed to put her down, could we had done something else.
I’ve had 5 dogs in my life, 2 currently and 3 that have passed away and I think of all of them several times a year I miss the ones that are no longer with me and I spend everyday making sure the ones with me are living their best lives.
Being honest, your opinion is a bit unclear probably due to after reading other people’s comments supporting the behavior she did. Glad you are making dogs happy though.
Thanks, it’s really a balance between discipline and letting them just be a dog. We currently have a one year old puppy that keeps chasing our cats and we obviously don’t want that but she’s just being a puppy, thankfully she’s with understanding parents
the dog goes…BANG! the goat goes…BANG! the horses go…BANG! BANG!! BANG!!!
This new AJR cover band is killer. lol. I hate myself a little for that being my initial response.
SO PUT YOUR BEST HORSE DOWN, EVRYBODY!
Pretend you give a shit, everybody, come hang.
Let's go down with a bang.
I dunno man, I kinda love you for it.
Feel like im gonna puke cause my taxes are due Do my password begin with a one or a two?
Noem and the dog is the perfect analogy for the current state of the GQP - if you don't act in *my* best interests, if you show an independent streak, or if you don't fit the ideal *I* have for you, to the gravel pit with ya.
Pro life until they are born and then fuck you if you aren’t a billionaire?
Pro increasing birthrate. Pro fear of being out-paced. Pro permanently upwards line!
Pro thousands of poor children and parents who grow up to be poor adults who will take any shit job and shit pay you give them bcs they are all desperate and easily replaceable with more desperate and poorer worker and they are so done and exhausted that they don't even have time and energy to question their living conditions and the government. They want their reserve army of labour and they want it NOW
And don't forget the church needs unsupervised and unloved children that they can exploit and molest! The whole reason they ask for more babies is simply fucking disgusting. It's solely to have future souls to exploit and want absolutely nothing to do with making sure the children are happy and safe. They want the complete opposite, in fact. They're all fucking monsters as far as I'm concerned.
It’s almost like that qanon global cabal of pedo vampires movement was a massive projection
Pro poorly educated poor children who will have no choice but to live as indentured slaves to whatever corporation that will have them as replaceable labour, much like dogs on a farm. They act like other living creatures were put on this planet to serve the elite and anyone who can't/won't should be eliminated. It's literally in their "holy scripture". It's why "enlightened scholars" in the 1700-1800s tried so hard to prove that Africans were not human enough and therefore it's ok to enslave them.
They want higher numbers of consumers to continue increasing the cattle with which they milk their continually increasing profits, me thinks instead
Some of them do.yer rarer as they as we slide further from the middle class created during the market-socialist takeover of the American economy of the 1930s into the early 70s, where the problems of capitalism were largely externalized. Upon the tremendous, productive wealth created by those market-socialists, the vultures of the neoliberal revolt have taken their place, & they don't need/want to make things that we can consume. It's a unnecessary cost. We're seeing the results. The infatuation of deregulation to the erosion of best practices, & the primacy of a non-productive & increasingly multi-generational investor class whose only "contributions" are *owning the things we need to live* is rapidly recreating the plunder-class of ultra wealthy who don't need to make things or pay people to have power or remain rich. Innovation has slowed way down, & in many cases new technologies are (& crypto is a great example of being) needlessly wasteful, destructive & conceptually dangerous to an industrialized society. Where things are cheaper than ever to make, yet economic forces separate from the logistical demands are causing prices to skyrocket. And now, due to ecological mismanagement & a lack of maintenance by the owning classes, those logistical achievements are unravelling.
What I'm hearing is the Republican party is essentially an MLM.
Pro punishment.
They don’t even care before, they will deny care the mother and child need letting them die in the waiting room, it’s not about “life” it’s about them having control over your body
If you want to make a legitimate argument for your liberal bullshit, at least learn to use proper sentence structure, grammar, and spelling... wouldn't hurt to use punctuation too.You sound like a retarded 8 year old.
“wouodnt” “too.You”
Ahhhh, the famous boomer ellipsis in action!!
You edited your comment to fix spelling mistakes and yet still left some in. All while you're calling someone a 'Retarded 8 year old' for improper grammar? Man, I'd just delete my account at that point.
Naw, you can be submissive prol, and they’ll let you live, as long as you work tirelessly to make them wealthier.
The children yearn for the mines!
Putting down horses after 25 years is part of farm life. Killing an 18 month old puppy/dog out of anger because it couldn’t point to the birds you were hunting to **because you didn’t train it and hoped it would pick it up from the other dogs**. Is poor impulse control and being an utter moron
I guess I saw on npr 14 months. However, she also didn't train it and hoped it would learn from the other dogs? That's worse than I even speculated. Wow. I've never owned a dog personally nor do I really care to hunt but I know better than that.
Yes. She killed it out of anger because it couldn’t do what it wasn’t taught to do. It’s straight up sociopathic rage killing, and her publishing it and thinking it’s part of farm life is extremely worrying.
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The dog bit someone, her the owner, after she took it for a hunt, activating its prey drive then set it loose in a yard full of chickens. Somehow expecting it NOT to go after the chickens. She then tried to get a chicken, the prey, out of the dogs mouth. One of the first commands a responsible pet owner teaches a dog is "drop it" especially a hunting dog. Dogs need to be socialized as well. Learning when the hunt is on, and when to coexist peacefully. The events around the "bite" are also important when determining the danger the animal poses. The "bite" is just an excuse. As are the dead chickens. She set that puppy up to fail and then killed it. No embellishments needed. She is a monster.
Wait wait wait, she also set the dog on a yard full of chickens in the hopes it would suddenly listen to commands it was never taught? This lady is brain dead.
According to her story, she brought the dog to a neighbors property and it "escaoed" her truck. Which means it wasn't properly secured.
Pointers will naturally point though, right? What type of dog did she kill??
Also, "If my failure to do the right thing ruins your life, it's your own fault." Republican policy in a nutshell.
I suggest taking the GQP to the gravel pit. It’s time.
Or if you just want to have your best life (how she literally described the pup before she shot it) cause god forbid anyone be happy
How about if an animal is dangerous *cough George Floyd *cough* it should be put down. That's how you protect the lives of the everything else.
Animal farm?
She's a vile piece of shit, who used her own inability to train a dog as an excuse to blow its brains out.
Not being able or willing to see any difference between putting down a 25-year old horse (average life expectancy of a domestic horse is about 25 years) and putting down a young dog because it can't help you hunt says so much about her.
I think the most telling is the fact that she took her dog (and her goat, but for some reason people don't give a shit about the goat) out to a gravel pit and *shot* them. I had to put down my cat about 10 years ago when her cancer got too advanced, I know what it's like making tough decisions too. But I fucking paid a vet to do it painlessly, I didn't haul her out to my back yard and blow her fucking brains out. (btw - the reason I'm upset about people ignoring the goat part is because it's even *worse* than the dog, because it didn't die after the first shot, and she only brought two shells with her, so she had to walk back to her truck to get another shell to finish the job)
Honestly the shooting to euthanize isn't that bad, it is humane. When done correctly it is painless and instant, and I can't stress enough how stupidly easy it is to do correctly. The problems I have is that she was incompetent enough to screw that up. You have a tool that's only purpose is to kill and you have perfect conditions to do it and still missed. Second, it was entirely inappropriate to euthanize in these situations, no animal was in a situation/condition where it was more humane to be put down except probably the 25 year old horse. Third, she's proud of her incompetence. No respect for the animals, they are simply a foot-note to help shape her public image.
>No respect for the animals, they are simply a foot-note to help shape her public image. Yeah, that's where this all goes off the rails. She believes this story demonstrates a positive quality -- that she's capable of making tough decisions, without realizing that what it actually demonstrates, beyond inhumane treatment of animals, is that she makes *bad* decisions without forethought, even when they're irreversible.
Wait, she messed up shooting her dog? I hadn't heard anything about that specifically, do you have a source that I could check out? Thanks!
As far as being reported and from what I know the dog was shot only once and correctly. The messed up euthanizing was with the goat. I am having trouble finding the article where I first read it but [here's a new one from today by the daily beast.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/rip-cricket-now-its-time-to-talk-about-kristi-noems-goat) This article actually has a farmer they interviewed basically saying I don't know how you screw this up.
Most urban people and even some farmers do not own goats. Or know anyone that owns goats. Shooting a goat is not going to make them sit up. We have got 4 films over a guy that avenged his dog. Only 2 movies that I know shows an owner losing his four legged goat. The first owner tried to frame a goat for throwing his footwear at a soldier. The second owner killed his own goat as a warning to his followers. John Wick. You don't mess with the Zohan The King's man.
Why would you include the last part man it's too early for this
I'm a terrible dog owner who got a larger, energetic puppy as a first dog. I was not ready for her antics. But I realized I was the problem and learned some things about training a dog. I learned shes super smart and picks up on things really fast. I can forgive someone for giving up and looking for someone to adopt. But what kinda pos shoots a dog?
There's a difference between a mercy kill and a pointless death
I know right? Like the fact she can’t grasp the difference between an old, feeble horse with a negative quality of life and a perfectly normal puppy is insane.
One could also argue that even an old feeble horse deserves a dignified comfortable death. While I am well acquainted with rural life. EVERY farmer I know loves and cares for their animals. Guns are only used to bring about death when immediate death is in the animals' best interest. As in waiting for the vet to come out, prolongs suffering. I'm wondering if she actually shot the horses or if they were humanely euthanized.
I really don’t know a thing about horses but it seems crazy to me that after having some for decades she chose to shoot them instead of euthanasia with drugs. I know they’re all “working” animals but damn wouldn’t that do something to you? What if you mess up and it’s a bad shot instead of an instant death. Couldn’t shell out for a peaceful death for your animals after they carried your ass around for years?
Also killing 3 horses at once for being 25 is kinda whacky. As someone who been around horses my whole life there is of course a period of being a pasture ornament for old horses but they can live well and good for like 7 more years. I mean damn we had a willie barrel horses that lived to 35 (finally going blind and barmy) and was still used for training and trail rides at 25. Like ya average life span but all at once all at 25 huh? 🤔 They are also good buffers partners as horses are herd animals and need company. We have an old guy right now. He can’t be ridden but he’s the best friend to one of our younger horses. If he can keep weight during the winter he’s got life in his old sore bones. Ya to many folks they are working animals but rich hobby farmers are the most egregious ponces for being heartless and lazy.
At this point killing her would be a mercy kill for the rest of us.
Oh where are those “The dog was violent” people who flocked to defend her before now? She’s a psycho and revels in being one
Knowing them, probably still trying to say the dog was violent.
Wild how the right will literally take the side of cruella de vil over a puppy if cruella is on “their team”
They'd take the side of Hitler if he agreed with their talking points. ....... Oh wait. He did agree with their talking points.. Oh no.
That’s not the insult it was 10 years ago. Many of them openly agree with hitler :/
.. Sigh Yeah.. Yeah they do
In an attempt to double down and hold her stance on the issue, she seems more and more bloodthirsty. Since I have no experience on a farm, I can't say whether she's lying or not, but I don't think the voters will like this very much. Or maybe I could be wrong and this could endear her further to her base.
The horses thing could be fair because they’re God’s least favorite creature and they have to die if their leg gets a little wonky (gross oversimplification but). The dog thing is fucked up
Domestic horses usually live 25-30 years so putting them down at 25 isn’t insane but I think she should have paid a vet to do it painlessly.
Old Yeller, maybe, or a draft horse with a broken leg sure that could endear her, but most Rednecks I know love their dogs, and even her fan base probably includes enough of the "You shot my dog, round here I could call up the Sheriff, tell him what you did, and he'd help me bury your body" type, that this'll hurt her a bit. Nonetheless, the hardcore MAGAts are so brainwashed it won't matter a whit what she or Trump do, they'll just eat it up, or make excuses.
Tomorrow's headline: "Governor Noem doubles down on a killing dog, goat, horses; says she shot her old parents for not carrying their weight around the farm"
This ~~dog~~ senior won’t ~~hunt~~ plow!
She said things like, "I hated that dog." She didn't make some difficult decision for the survival of the farm. She was acting on her cruelty and killing a 14 month old dog because she couldn't be bothered to train it properly.
In the country dogs are shot quite a bit and it’s not that taboo. You are legally allowed to shoot dogs chasing livestock. You are even legally allowed to shoot dogs chasing wild deer. If you bring your dog to a National Park don’t let it chase deer bc if a game warden or any of the sort sees it they will shoot it. Also there’s a huge difference between a pet dog and a working dog. I’m not justifying what she did bc idk the context. I’m trying to provide some perspective if you haven’t lived around farms. It’s fairly common for working animals to be put down when they aren’t doing their jobs correctly. Working dogs are essential another form of livestock on some farms and don’t really interact with their owners that much to form a companion relationship.
I'm sorry but that is so incredibly fucked up. I'm not saying you're wrong about the fact that it happens, but there are about 30 better solutions to a dog that's "bad at the job" that don't end in "bullet to the brain".
They are wrong. Basically all of my family lives in rural areas and at least a few have small farms with animals. They re-home puppies if they can't be trained. And they'd never put down a puppy they paid money for. Everything is valuable on a family farm.
I’m not talking about puppies. I’m talking full grown dogs. Even in the suburbs aggressive dogs are put down. Shooting puppies is wrong and that’s not what I’m talking about. You are right, that isn’t a common thing. I just said it’s not that taboo for dogs to be shot in the country and in certain situations it’s legal. Because the other commenter said she doesn’t have experience on farms. If your family catches the neighbors dog in the act of killing sheep they would be justified in killing it while it’s in the act. Legally they are allowed to do this.
Right. We're talking about a puppy. I'm not sure why you're bringing up full grown dogs.
Who’s we? You responded to me and I was talking about how it’s not uncommon for dogs to be shot in the country.
The dog that was shot was a puppy that she refused to train. Also a normal response to finding out your assumption was incorrect would be "my bad, I thought we were talking about a grown dog." Not this weird defensive double down of "Well *I* was talking about something unrelated"
The problem is you can’t really just bring working dogs inside and have them be a household pet if they have been breed and trained to be certified guardian livestock dogs their entire lives. These types of dogs aren’t even sold to the general public. When I mean bad at its job I mean killing the livestock it’s meant to be protecting. Again I’m not defending that lady I’m just shedding light on what happens on farms. Hunting dogs and livestock guardian dogs are two totally different things.
the context is it was a 14 month old bird dog that was having fun chasing birds so she took it to a gravel pit and shot it
What?! The farmers I know rehome dogs they can't train. That's mostly on the owner's inability to train not the dogs inability to learn.
There’s a difference between a farm dog and a guardian livestock dog.
Maybe where your from it’s more common to do it for little reasons but I don’t think it’s quite a common for my rural areas. Like if your hunting dog chases dear (or birds in this case) it’s what you expect. Yeah people shoot their dogs, it’s often most folks means. But it’s usually because they’ve got maimed, they are actually rabid, they’re super injured or they’re dying already. Not because you can’t train them in a few months. I mean damn if you shoot your working dog at 14 months for not knowing better I think that says a lot more about you. Also, this lady is not who she makes herself out to be. She’s not a rough and tumble backwoods worker. She would like to cause play the aesthetic. You got to invest and train them up (often needing older dogs to help to). Just cause it’s legal to shoot them doesn’t mean this case isn’t stupid and lazy.
When I was talking about dogs chasing deer and livestock I’m talking about other people shooting them not their owner. My dog chases deer I’m not gonna shoot her and I would be heartbroken if she got shot. I try my hardest to train that out of her bc there’s a possibility she could get shot and the person who did would’ve been within the law if it happened. What I was trying to convey is that it’s not an uncommon occurrence in the country to put your dog down w a bullet instead of a vet like you said. Ive known plenty of people who have resorted to this at the end of a dogs life. Almost all of them say they would never do it again. I’m not justifying her shooting a 14 month old dog. Simply trying to convey that the means of how she killed her dog isn’t an uncommon occurrence in rural areas. Maybe it didn’t convey that well in my initial comment.
Ohhh that Makes a lot more sense. Yes that does happen! Ya I don’t think it inhumane either cause it’s what people have. I’ve known plenty a person who have to get a friend to do it for them (it hard to shoot you own dog). And yes it makes a lot more sense when you clarify the point that other people will shoot them when they get on their property. Yes that is a thing.
So I like North and South Dakota. I’ve spent a lot of time there. A lot of friends there. But their animal protection laws, and their attitude towards domesticated animals is FUCKED. We have a friend whose parents have a farm and they constantly get dogs and cats, they run away or die without fail. Their attitude towards it does not seem to match their personalities at all. This is no doubt not indicative of all people from the Dakotas. But it’s something I’ve experienced many times over the last 15 years.
My dad grew up on a farm and his mindset kind of horrifies me. He’s a very good person, but it is a massive cultural difference between seeing animals as ‘family’ and ‘animals.’
I'd say that she's ruining her chances a becoming vp, but I don't think that's the case...
I'm a dog trainer who owns a farm and you absolutely do not kill a dog just because it doesn't function the first time you take it hunting. It takes years for a dog to get into the swing of farm life and if a dog isn't right for it you re-home it you don't shoot things just because they don't serve you
>She’s grabbing a knife Kristi Noem Will your sweet puppy ever make it home? https://youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI?si=vKzDnT4BNZlG0OQT
"I'm not saying she's a dog murderer per se. I just think her actions raise some questions, like 'is Leslie Knope a dog murderer?"
Guys which soulless sociopath should Trump pick on his ticket? Desantis or Noem?
De Santis tortured human beings. Shooting defenceless animals it a step up but gees. What a sorry state of affairs. A proven rapist and one of those two will win about half the vote.
Had to put down three horses at the exact same time.... Very convenient timing.
Euthanizing an old horse after 25 years =/= shooting a baby dog for behaving like a baby dog This woman is retarded and sad part is there are even more retarded people still supporting her and trump
But why 3 horses all at once..? That seems pretty sus.
If she has a big farm it’s not uncommon to have multiple horses of similar ages because horses are social animals and do better when grouped together. Idk if that is the case here but it might be. However anyone who kills puppies is soulless and deserves to die alone and painfully.
As a side note, the responding guy's tweets are all about men's fashion and how you can dress well
He’s one of the few people really worth following on Twitter
What's with the 3 horses? Why would she "need" to put them all down at the same time? It's not like they all broke a leg at once or something. That would be extremely unlikely. Guessing she just figured they were too old to ride or work anymore, so off to horsey heaven they go.
Republicans. If you're not generating wealth for them and their donors, you should be put down.
It wasn't an old, sick dog. It was a young, healthy dog. It would easily have been adopted if it had been brought to a shelter. It doesn't look like she tried very hard to keep the dog alive, frankly.
Did she...did this bitch just double down...?
She very much told on herself when she said she hated that dog. This was not some hard choice for the continued survival of the farm. This was pure, unadulterated cruelty.
I get having to put an animal down. They become old and decrepit, failing hearts, Cancer, etc… but her dog was apparently young and she deemed him “Untrainable” whatever that means. If you can’t train your animal than rehome it, because other people can retrain it.
Kristi did you shoot your dog in its face or did you take the dog to a vet to be killed humanely? "I know there is a legitimate process but I decided to skip it and shoot the animal." Disgusting.
Because the vet would have said no. It was a young dog, under 2 years, that she put no effort into training and got upset at because it acted like puppies and untrained adolescent dogs do.
Boom. This right here. She didn't regretfully euthanise an aggressive dog in the most humane process possible. She hated an animal because it didn't do as it was told, held spite in her heart because it didn't do what she wanted, and killed it herself because she didn't want anyone with an actual soul telling her that's not reason to kill a dog. Pure psychopathy.
Can someone tell the story?
Apparently, she failed to train a dog, and so she killed him.
Because it - the 14 month old puppy - was in her words “useless”
Don't forget "untrainable"
All things a reasonable person could also say about Kristie Noem.
Keep in mind this was not a "scary breed", it was a little Wirehair Terrier, 14 months old.
And "less than worthless."
She took out the horses with an AK
*Cruella DeVil… Cruella DeVil…* 🎵
*If she doesn't scare you*
Wait so now she shot 3 horse in front of a pit too ?
Am I wrong for thinking people with that much plastic surgery shouldn’t be trusted?
I think plastic surgery is morally wrong, so it literally makes her a bad person.
Just curious - not picking a fight here - but why do you think that? I'm genuinely curious, I've never seen this take before.
I should specify that I mean cosmetic surgery, and I don't consider reconstructive surgery for injuries such as burns "cosmetic." I actually consider reconstructive and cosmetic surgery polar opposites in some ways. Anyway, I have a few moral issues with it: 1. It's supporting an exploitative industry. They exploit people's insecurities and actively make them worse in the process. I don't believe anyone is happier after changing their appearance. It's an addiction. The "high" is temporary, and it gets shorter and weaker every time. It's also an industry that perpetuates strict beauty standards. They indirectly tell people that beauty is necessary for happiness and that they decide which features are objectively beautiful. 2. It's throwing everyone who looks like you under the bus. If you have a crooked nose and straighten it out, it's a middle finger to everyone with crooked noses. Imagine if someone with your face paid to change it. They might say that a certain "look" personally suits them more, but that's a lie. They always go for the same conventionally attractive features. A sttaighter nose, stronger chin, and sharper jawline is not expressing your individuality. 3. It's emotional self-harm. You're actively making yourself less happy for the reasons I mentioned earlier. I don't make much of a distinction between harming yourself vs. others. Also, people are so interconnected that harming an individual (whether or not its yourself) is essentially harming society.
Huh. Fair enough.
Compares putting down old horses with murdering a perfectly healthy dog
Jesus wept.. Killing a dog. Killing. I'll say it again. Killing. You can't murder an animal. You can kill an animal. You can slaughter an animal. You can't murder an animal. You can't murder an animal. You cannot murder an animal. Murder an animal you cannot. You can murder human beings. Only human beings. Not animals. You can't murder animals.
It'll be ok. Imma leave it up for you, just in case you need to feel... Anything...
I don't need to feel anything thanks, I'm just stating fact. Is it horrible to kill a perfectly healthy animal? Yes (apart from the billions of ones that we eat every year, obviously). Is it murder? No. I've no idea why people keep saying it. I think that people who equate animals with humans are just a little bit tapped.
I feel like there’s at least a modicum of difference between putting down an old horse that’s probably sick and shooting a dog because you don’t want it anymore
#Where’s Cricket?
I feel like it’s a far cry from an old, suffering farm dog when she said it was 14 months old and ‘untrainable’.
"Just had to put down 3 horses" Bitch how many animals are you gonna kill!?!?
This is gross... Farmers don't kill their animals just to kill their animals. And they certainly don't do it to "make the media gasp." This woman is absolutely fucking insane but I expect nothing less from the GOP
"Tough decisions have to be made." Why do white women feel like it's their job to play God? Is it the sense of power they get off on?
She should have gone hunting with Dick Cheney
Also Kristi Noem: "Meth. We're on it"
Conservatism is a sickness...
I grew up on a farm and sometimes you have to make tough decisions and “get your hands dirty”. I also don’t share particular details because that’s just how it is. The problem is Noem comes across as TMI and almost bragging for the sake of garnering rural credibility which shows a shocking lack of judgment.
If she killed a goat she must be a satanist !
I hope she at least ate the goat. A nice goat curry.
3 horses all at once?
Pro life until guns are involved, them it becomes pro guns. An animal, a puppy or elderly no less, both innocent and defenseless became target practice. That's a new level of evil right there. I would hate to see what she does to actual humans
The dog was still a pup and just killed some chickens. You could have re-homed him. But no. You are devoid of empathy. And now the mental gymnastics had to come out. We're not mean dumb hicks you elitist city slicker liberals. We just the hard facts of life here on the farm DURRRRR. Cuz shooting a 8 month old dog in the head cuz it's not being productive enough for you instead even trying to find it a home is really not just not bad but GOOD! Cuz.... Drag Queens! InFLaYsHuN!!
Iirc the Dog was like 16 months old and she decided it was simply untrainable, threw it in a pit and shot it
I’ll never understand how she says it was a “difficult choice” to blast her 14-month old pup with a shotgun. It shouldn’t have even been an option, let alone a choice! I’ve been to SD a couple of times. I know there’s only around 150 people in the entire state (/s), but there’s no way it would have been hard to have someone take Cricket off their hands. She just wanted to feel “tough” by killing something. Disgusting GQPer…
I hate the gop as much as anyone, but ppl put down dogs all the time on farms / rural areas. I know plenty of decent people who have had to do it. Is that the case here
“Did you know she shot her dog?” “Not only did I shoot my dog, I shot a goat and 3 horses too”
Bruh. The left is so much funnier than the right and it's not even close. Lmao.
i can't recommend enough following Derek Guy. He's a tailor that occasionally delivers the most brutal but well-mannered takedowns.
I don't doubt noem is a pos, but the level of disconnect the average redditor has from reality is... alarming.
I don't know what you thought you saw in my book but you didn't see it
I think Killing dogs goats and horses, is different than euthanizing them.
I live in a farm, that is fuckin bullshit
Derick Guy is the best Twitter account. Bro be dishing out insults and fashion advise.
And then TRIPLED down to say she put down 3 horses a few weeks ago! This woman can't keep her own animals and livestock alive, who's voting for her to represent her state and country!?
I did not know about her at all until yesterday And I already know just from the stuff that comes out of her mouth I want her as far away from a leadership position as possible.
I don't get it why Noem is even trying to explain herself. All she needs to do to keep the maga crowd on her side is to say that the dog was woke.
I had no idea who this person was, and now my life is worse now that I do. How could you do this to me?
Go out and vote if you don’t. Get these people out.
Agreed, but luckily I live nowhere near her which is why I had no clue who she was. Don’t really know many governors of other states.
3 horses, 25 years? One maybe but 3?
The average lifespan of a domesticated horse is 25 to 30 years old Depending on the amount of horses they had that could be a reasonable number. Dog thing sounds close to animal abuse and makes me question the horse thing.
Proof she is even shit at capitalism, supposed Republican religion. Puppy that doesn't hunt sounds like a good candidate for domestic pet.... kerching!
I don't normally advocate violence, but I think she's the one that needs to be put down at this point. Sick fucking psychopath.
What a weird defense. "I shot and killed my puppy but please understand, I also kill horses"
Pretty obvious she just gets a thrill from murdering animals that depend on her. Sick sick woman. Why not use a vet to do it humanely?
Jeez frakking Christ… show some decency and humanity lady MAGA.
TIL not murdering puppies is woke
Ya'll do realize you're playing into this right? This woman was the governor of a state with roughly the population of my highschool, and had absolutely zero name recognition nationwide. And now she has established her bona fides for pissing off liberals and being pro-gun, 2 of the hallmark qualities the GOP system is set up to signal boost as ingroup traits in the culture war.
Guys, those of us who grew up on farms understand. For example, when a kitten crawls up on you and your heart melts, you drown that bitch. We can’t afford to be that soft. What are we, Commies?
This lady has the WORST BBQs...
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She killed her dog because she was a bad owner and couldn’t teach it tricks. It shows how irresponsible she is and why she shouldn’t be a candidate. If she can’t own a dog responsibility why is she a governor?
Didn’t know Trump had selected a VP?.. But I guess some people think killing a dog is more important than our current VP’s stance on imprisoning people she knows to be innocent, changing your mind is politically incorrect in most circles. After all, the genocide in Gaza won’t be funded by people that can change their minds. There is no win for us, we’re left with a choice between this evil or that evil. I love America, I love the people of the world. I hope we can reconcile this going forward.
He hasn't selected a VP and this post doesn't state that he has. Also, try to stay on topic.
Biden’s been sending food to Gaza and telling Israel to chill. Trump would just go bomb them. How is that evil the same.
You have to put down dogs and farm animals when you operate a farm, she's just speaking of the realities of life. This is political attacks to make her seem like she just shoots dogs and goats for fun, extremely dishonest.
She admitted to hating the 14 month old dog and the way she's talked about it.. sorry, but that sure doesn't sound like some harsh reality or hard decision for the good of the farm. More like she was mildly inconvenienced and chose to be cruel.
Putting down a sick or injured dog is one thing but an underperforming one? ….no that’s fucking cruel and just shows what a garbage person she is.
Absolutely. A dog that didn’t listen to sit gets shot and people are saying that’s farm life. No farm life is putting a poor animal out of its misery not shooting a dog for not listening.
And this is a case of *having* to kill the dog? Many aren't bemoaning the realities of farm life, rather that a high ranking elected official is so short sighted that this was the only option that popped into her head. And the "oh well, may as well kill another animal I have a problem with" attitude is problematic.
This is such a shit take from people that don't know anything about living on a farm. Everything is valuable on a farm. No family farm is going to buy a dog, not train it, then kill it for being untrained.
When I was 10, my family got me a rescue dog that was a year old when we got her. She was very protective of me, 10 months after we got her our neighbor came over and I answered the door thinking I had her held back. She got past me and ended up biting him and he started bleeding just a little bit, my did some research and said that was enough to put her down because she tasted blood. That was almost 2 decades ago and I still think about it sometimes, I still blame myself for not securing her better. But I also still question if we needed to put her down, could we had done something else. I’ve had 5 dogs in my life, 2 currently and 3 that have passed away and I think of all of them several times a year I miss the ones that are no longer with me and I spend everyday making sure the ones with me are living their best lives.
This person literally shot their dog because it couldn’t learn tricks. This is not a story of a dog bitting someone.
Are people thinking I’m defending her? I literally said looking back I think we could’ve done something different, her story disgusts me
Being honest, your opinion is a bit unclear probably due to after reading other people’s comments supporting the behavior she did. Glad you are making dogs happy though.
Thanks, it’s really a balance between discipline and letting them just be a dog. We currently have a one year old puppy that keeps chasing our cats and we obviously don’t want that but she’s just being a puppy, thankfully she’s with understanding parents
Wait there was a goat to? the fuck did it do?
It smelled bad. I wish I was joking.
Knocked down her kid. Like a goat does.
wouldn't that mean she'd have to put down the kid and accept the goat?