GOP group is forced to cancel Kristi Noem fundraiser after receiving death threats following South Dakota Governor’s revelation that she slaughtered puppy for being naughty

A fundraiser with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has been canceled after organizers received death threats over the slaughter of her puppy.

Noem wrote in her upcoming memoir that she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy named Cricket in her family’s gravel pit after it killed chickens.

Her admission set off a firestorm that likely torpedoed her chances of becoming Donald Trump’s running mate and left her mocked by other Republicans.

Noem was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Republicans’ annual fundraiser in Jefferson County, Colorado, but it was canceled due to security fears.

Nancy Pallozzi, chair of the Republican Party of Jefferson County, said her group, Noem, its staff and the venue received “numerous threats and/or death threats.”

“After a conversation late Wednesday with the governor’s office, we collectively decided that safety was the primary concern for everyone involved,” she said.

“The Denver West Marriott also received alarming comments and shared with us their deep concerns about the safety and security of those who attended our event, other guests and their staff.”

Pallozzi said canceling the event “does not take a position on the public outcry over the governor’s book” but merely takes safety into account.

She said Noem “must and will continue to stand up for our constitutional rights, our freedom and less government, which is the platform of the Republican Party.”

The organization will refund anyone who bought the pricey tickets for the event and eat the thousands of dollars in fees it cannot reclaim.

The controversy, which has even left her fellow conservatives on social media upset and angry with her, forced her hand Mention to do damage control.

She complained that the outrage was “fake news” fueled by “the media,” prompting a new wave of criticism from readers who emphasized that the press only reported Noem’s own published words.

“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story about Cricket, one of the working dogs on our ranch,” she wrote on Twitter.

“The fact is that South Dakota law states that dogs that attack and kill livestock can be put down. Since Cricket had shown aggressive behavior towards humans by biting them, I decided what I did.

“As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way is not the right way.’

Noem later told Fox News that Cricket was “butchering” a neighbor’s cattle the day it was killed.

“It came from a family who thought she was way too aggressive,” she claimed.

The book, titled No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, will be released May 7.

In it, Noem wrote about the wirehair pointer she shot at the gravel pit on her family’s property just before her children came home from school.

She claimed that Cricket had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed – as evidenced by him ruining a pheasant hunt because he was “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.”

Additionally, when the governor of South Dakota took Cricket to meet a local family, the dog began killing the family’s chickens like “a trained killer.”

According to a book excerpt obtained by the GuardianCricket “took one chicken at a time, crunched it to death with one bite, then dropped it to attack another.”

When Noem finally got the dog, she wrote that Cricket “twisted around trying to bite me.”

Cricket was ‘the epitome of pure joy’. Meanwhile, the owner of the chickens was crying.

Noem wrote that she wrote a check “for the price they asked and helped them clean up the carcasses at the scene of the crime.”

“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, believing the fourteen-month-old pooch was “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came into contact with,” and “less than worthless… as a hunting dog.”

So she decided to kill Cricket.

“At that moment,” the governor wrote. “I realized I had to put her down.”

She shot Cricket in the family’s gravel pit.

“It wasn’t a fun job,” Noem said, “but it had to be done. And when it was over, I realized there was still a nasty job to be done.”

Noem also decided to get rid of the family goat because it was “filthy and mean,” as it remained unneutered and smelled “disgusting, musky.” [and] rancid’ and ‘liked to chase’ the governor’s children.

She also “dragged him to the gravel pit,” but the goat jumped up when she tried to shoot him, keeping him alive for a moment.

Noem said she had to go back to her truck to pick up another grenade and “then rushed back to the gravel pit and dropped it off.”

Her actions were witnessed, she said, by a construction crew working nearby. Moments later the bus dropped off her children.

“Kennedy looked around in confusion,” Noem recalled of her daughter, who asked, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

Noem then admitted, “If I were a better politician, I wouldn’t be telling the story here.”

On Friday, the internet was buzzing with reactions to her story.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a harsh Trump critic and former White House communications director, wrote on

“I’m a dog lover and I’m honestly shocked by Kristi Noem’s clip. I wish I hadn’t even read it. A 14 month old dog is still a puppy and can be trained.

“A big part of bad behavior in dogs is not properly training the people responsible for them,” Griffin wrote.