South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has a new book coming out. The Guardian published some excerpts from her forthcoming biography.
One excerpt is causing a stir. Jazz wrote about it and if you haven’t read his post, I encourage you to do so. It’s an eye-opener.
Noem writes about killing a 14-month-old puppy. And a goat. She justified it by writing about bad behavior from the animals on her farm. The question is why did she include the mentions in her upcoming book?
An avid hunter, Ms. Noem wrote that she had hoped to train Cricket to hunt pheasant, but that she proved “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog. “I hated that dog,” Ms. Noem wrote, according to The Guardian.
It was after Cricket ruined a hunting trip, killed another family’s chickens and bit the governor that Ms. Noem recalled deciding…
