South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is facing a backlash after making shocking revelations in a new book detailing how she killed her dog. The hill reported
Although he cited the murders as an anecdote to explain how tough decisions must be made, the move backfired on him.
In her book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” she described how she became angry with her 14-month-old dog named Cricket.
She described the dog as “untrainable” and “dangerous”.
She recounted an incident when returning from a family hunting trip, Cricket attacked a local family’s chickens, “taking one chicken at a time, mauling it to death with one bite, then leaving to attack another.”
When she tried to stop him, he lashed out to bite her. She explains that’s when she knew she had to do something.
She wrote: “I hated that dog.”
Then he later took it to a gravel pit on his property and shot it. “It was not a pleasant job,” he wrote. “But it had to be done.”
However, after the story gained many reactions from people online, Noem took to X to defend himself.
She wrote: “We love animals, but hard decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Unfortunately, we just had to give up 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”
