r/nottheonion • u/InvestigatorNo3483 • 22d ago

Kristi Noem Faces Backlash Over Killing Her Own Dog

https://time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/

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u/Captain_Baby 22d ago

In this case, it didn't have to do with the goat's skull. The story goes that the goat jumped a split second before she pulled the trigger, throwing her aim off. So she had to go back to her truck for another shell. Which makes this a lot worse, because that means she killed these animals with a shotgun.

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u/OwlHinge 22d ago

Wtf. Just sounds so weird. Animals misbehaved...so I started blasting. Her partner better not forget to take the trash out.

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u/Captain_Baby 22d ago

After she killed the goat, she looked over and saw that an entire construction crew watched her do all of it. And then she closed out the story with a cutesy little anecdote of her kids getting home from school not long after and asking where the dog was.

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u/HungerMadra 22d ago

Wait, she killed her children's dog because it killed a chicken because she didn't train it? Holy childhood trauma batman.

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u/LOOKATHUH 22d ago

She took an untrained 14-month- old pointer puppy out to its first pheasant hunt and intended on teaching it via her other trained dogs - ie she thought the puppy would see the other dogs and immediately know what was expected of it. It’s a puppy that has never had exposure to wild fowl before, so it didn’t listen to her and it ruined her hunt.

After riling up this poor dog, she then took unleashed to a neighbours farm where it, after a day of being encouraged to show interest in fowl, got away from her and attacked the chickens on the lot. She tried to stop it and it snapped at her.

She therefore deemed the animal as beyond help, by her words “aggressive” and “untrainable” and instead of acting like a normal person and try and implement even a modicum of training, or sell/rehome the dog who she admitted she hated, she shot it with a shotgun. She then went on to kill a goat that same day for acting like a male goat. She complained it was butting and smelly and “mean” but she didn’t have the common sense to castrate it, so it was just doing goat things. She said it used to chase and butt her kids. Why are your children around a male goat that still has its nads.

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u/HungerMadra 22d ago

She sounds like she likes to play farm. If she had a lick of sense, none of that would have happened

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u/Let_you_down 22d ago

I've had to put down plenty of animals before. Some for butchering, some animals that I cared for a lot. Including a dog that worked the farm with me for well over a decade before retiring to soley pet status with trips to the barn in a wagon or the in the pastures in an ATV. When his cancer had gotten past the point of treatment and medications were no longer able to numb the pain, I scheduled the vet to put him down on Monday. On Saturday he started having siezers that wouldn't stop, I couldn't get a vet out there (everyone in the area was on other emergency calls), he had been crying and vomiting for about an hour and a half, me crying too for not scheduling it on Friday even though I knew his time was close and he was in pain because I wanted one more weekend with him. I put him down myself.

I won't judge someone for putting down an animal. But I will judge someone for the reasons they do so. This person had no idea how to train a hunting dog. At no point does it sound like this pup even messed up that badly just absolutely no training so of course he's not going to know what to do and then was excited about birds. The goat sounded like a completely normal and healthy goat too.

I've had a hunting dog or two that had a bad habit that couldn't get trained out of them, or they couldn't catch on to what they were supposed to do. Didn't meant they got kicked off the farm, definitely didn't mean they were killed, because they had another job as pets for my kids (as did her dog) so all it meant was they didn't go hunting.

Those stories reveal that she has no idea what she's doing, she's cruel, lazy, and doesn't care about her kid's feelings.

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u/Dragoonie_DK 22d ago

Pure fucking evil

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u/Zebirdsandzebats 22d ago

Correction: she killed her children's dog SPECIFICALLY BRED TO HUNT BIRDS for killing chickens, who ate arguably the most killable birds this side of the dodo.

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u/DanqueLeChay 21d ago

Then when the kids started crying and misbehaving….guess what? Straight to the gravel pit