The South Dakota governor, who is a potential vice president pick for Donald Trump, has said she killed her dog after it attacked a family's chickens.
Kristi Noem has revealed that she shot her dog Cricket after realizing it was 'untrainable.'Writing in her new book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, the South Dakota governor described how she shot and killed her animal, according to British newspaper The Guardian.Newsweek has not obtained a copy of the book and has been unable to verify the reported passage.Newsweek contacted Noem's office by email to comment on this story.
She wrote that she took Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs to calm the animal and help it learn how to behave. But on the hunt, Cricket went 'out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.'Noem then used an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control, she wrote, but that didn't work.
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