I Asked South Dakota Dog Trainers About Kristi Noem

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/dog-trainers-kristi-noem.html

She knows that some dogs are “wired inappropriately” and that, sometimes, for the safety of humans and other animals, it can be necessary to euthanize. She knows that not everybody turns to a vet for that task.

“Since I live in a very rural agricultural state, there are people that do that themselves with a firearm,” Davenport told me.

What she does not get, though, is the way the governor of her state, Kristi Noem, talked about shooting her dog Cricket, as well as an unnamed billy goat, in her memoir, “No Going Back,” which came out yesterday.

“I don’t know a single person that would brag about it. Most of the time they feel bad,” Davenport, a Republican, said. “I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t at least be sad.”

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“We don’t go out shooting our dogs. We don’t shoot our goats, either,” Davenport said. When a dog must be put down, she said, “We actually have a mobile vet out here that can come to your house.”

Confetti doesn’t like loud noises, she said, so she’s not much of a hunting dog, but she’s very social. Her youngest dog, she joked, hasn’t been trained as well as her others.

“I think he’s growing up feral,” she said. “He better hope Kristi Noem doesn’t move in next door.”

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[Rhiannon12866]

1. Texas Paul, who also lives in a rural area, said the same thing, that vets will readily come to your house, if needed

And this was a young pup - I took my own pup to puppy class.

[okaawhatever]

4. Oh the jokes about Noem not having, or not revognizing, class practically write themselves

[Skittles]

2. if anyone is "wired inappropriately"

it is GUN HUMPING REPUKES

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Or old dogs. I still cry when I read about the shooting of Candy's old dog

in Of Mice and Men.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Important Point

There are no barking, noisy or nosy dogs in Noem’s Neighborhood for some reason.