Trump’s vice presidential candidate Kristi Noem reveals she shot her 14-month-old ‘trained assassin’ dog Cricket and shot a goat in revealing new book

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem writes in her forthcoming book that she shot her own dog — and a family goat — in an effort to demonstrate her ability to deal with all that is “difficult, messy and ugly’.

As former President Donald Trump ponders who should be his vice president, Noem has written a new book: No Turning Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forwardwhich will be released on May 7.

In it, she writes about Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, who Noem shot in the gravel pit on her family’s property just before her children came home from school.

The dog, Noem claimed, had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed – as evidenced by Cricket ruining a pheasant hunt because he was “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time for her.” to live.’

Furthermore, 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.”

A Facebook photo shows South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem with a gun. In her upcoming book, she writes about Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, who shot Noem in the gravel pit on her family property just before her children came home from school.

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.”

As former President Donald Trump ponders who should be his vice president, Noem has written a new book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, which will be released May 7.

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 said 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 set it down.”

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is photographed with another dog she owned, Hazel, a Vizsla

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 already buzzing with reactions to her story.

Rick Wilson, one of the co-founders of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, called Noem “trash.”

“Decades with hunting and bird dogs, and the number I’ve killed because they were chicken-sharp or had too much prey drive is ZERO,” he noted.

‘Puppies need slow exposure to birds and the smell of birds. She killed a puppy because she was lazy at training bird dogs, not because it was a bad dog. Not every dog ​​is for the field, but 99.9% of them are trainable or rehomeable,” he said. “We have one now that never went into the field, but I didn’t kill her. She sleeps on the couch.’

Wilson said old dogs, injured dogs and sick dogs should be humanely put down “not by shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit.”

“Unsportsmanlike and deliberately cruel … but she wrote this to prove that it was cruelty,” Wilson said.