You have probably heard or read about South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem shooting her 14-month-old dog Cricket. Such a crazy thing to do but I have to say, I'm not as upset as most people are.
I am no fan of Ms. Noem. I find her sycophant tendencies towards Donald Trump repulsive. Any woman who goes against her own moral compass just to appease him, has no place in our federal government. I am assuming she has some kind of moral compass. Maybe not.
Anyway, her retelling of the story of Cricket's demise is sad but I do think people are jumping the gun (no pun intended) here. Unless they were a witness to this act, there is no way anyone can understand what she had gone through with this dog. She says she had tried to train it, that others had tried too but the dog was just nuts. He attacked chickens; he bit at her. She feared for her family. I don’t condone killing animals unless they are attacking people. We don’t know…perhaps Cricket was displaying signs of some kind of psychosis. Who knows? I don’t think putting it in the book was the best idea; surely, she knew it would draw attention…but then again…maybe that’s the point.
It's too bad she chose to do this. I would hope she had thought through the decision, really tried other avenues before settling on the decision she made. She will forever be "That Governor who shot her dog." When pressed about it, she could have come clean...said she was at her wits end and felt there truly was no other way; that in retrospect the time that has passed since this incident 20 years ago, she may have thought better of it now; that it was a decision she would never want to put on another and she would probably had handled it better now and try as she might, there is No Going Back Now.
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