South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again. This time, it's for a new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too.
On the way home from the hunting trip, Noem writes that she stopped to talk to a family. Cricket got out of Noem's truck and attacked and killed some of the family's chickens, then bit the governor. Soon thereafter, a school bus dropped off Noem's children. Her daughter asked, "Hey, where's Cricket?" Noem writes.
"You down old dogs, hurt dogs, and sick dogs humanely, not by shooting them and tossing them in a gravel pit," Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project wrote on X. "Unsporting and deliberately cruel ... but she wrote this to prove the cruelty is the point.""We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm," she said on X. "Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
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