"Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old," Noem reportedly wrote, adding that the dog, a female, had an "aggressive personality" and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant. She wrote that she took Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs to calm the animal and help it learn how to behave. But on the hunt, Cricket went "out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life."
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, floated as a top pick for a potential Trump running mate, wrote in graphic detail about the day she shot and killed her family’s “untrainable” dog and an errant goat in her new book—acknowledging the political imprudence of the bizarre admission, according to The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of the book.
Noem decided to off the family goat as well because he was 'nasty and mean,' as he remained uncastrated and smelled 'disgusting, musky [and] rancid' and 'loved to chase' the governor's children. She 'dragged him to the gravel pit' as well, but the goat jumped as she tried to shoot him, leaving him briefly alive. Noem said she had to go back to her truck and retrieve another shell and then 'hrried back to the gravel pit and put him down.'
