South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem defended on Sunday her decision to shoot and kill her puppy after the revelation made headlines last week when an excerpt of her new forthcoming book was published.
The Guardian reported on the incident, which was included in an excerpt of her book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward”.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor wrote about the puppy, adding that the female puppy had an “aggressive personality.” Wirehair pointers typically take a full two years to fully mature to adulthood.
She included the vignette in her book, the report said, because she believes it shows that she is willing to solve “difficult, messy, and ugly” problems.
Noem says that she took the puppy on a hunting trip and that the puppy ruined the trip by going “out of…
