The South Dakota governor is trying to justify her killing of a 14-month-old dog. No one’s buying it.
What’s clear to anyone who has ever loved a dog is that Noem failed to do the actual hard thing—training Cricket instead of dragging her to a gravel pit and shooting her dead.
“If you really want to show us that you're worth your weight, show us you can take a difficult situation and make it better and improve it and fix it,” veteran dog trainer Lisa Topol told The Daily Beast.Topol noted Cricket was an adolescent, when genetic traits take increasing hold in dogs.In her upcoming memoir, Noem said she “hated” Cricket, described her as “untrainable,” and indicated that she relied on a shock collar to make the hunting dog do as she was told.
Cole Jensen of Badlands Kennel said wirehaired pointers are known as the most aggressive of the hunting breeds, “but I find it very unlikely that she wouldn’t have known that before bringing one home.” Katherine Jacobson, president of the Rapid City Kennel Club, had this to say about Cricket-gate: “Good luck, I hope her political career is over.”
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