Potential Trump Vice President Nominee Says She Killed One Of Her Dogs For Being 'Less Than Worthless' - News18

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Last Updated: April 27, 2024, 12:05 IST

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South Dakota governor Kristi Noem said her act of killing one of her dogs and goats shows that she can do difficult things when required. (Image: Reuters File)

She also said she killed a goat because she found it 'disgusting', not castrated and also because it attacked her children.

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, who is among the frontrunners to be former US president Donald Trump's likely pick as vice president, admitted she shot dead one of her dogs for being "less than worthless". She also said she killed a goat she found "disgusting", according to a report by the New York Post and The Guardian.

Noem revealed these killings in a memoir where she says that these actions taken by her shows that she is willing to do "difficult, messy and ugly" things when needed, according to UK-based newspaper The Guardian who had access to an advance copy.

She also defended her actions in a post on social media site X and posted a photo of the article published in the UK daily to defend her stance while advertising her book.

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"Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old," she said. She said that the pup had an "aggressive personality" that made it "untrainable".

She said that she took the pup on a hurt with other dogs to train her but the female dog went "out of her mind with excitement" and attacked some chickens like a "trained assassin".

The German Wirehaired Pointer is a versatile hunting dog breed.

"(Cricket) whipped around to bite me," Noem writes describing how the dog reacted when she tried to bring it under control.

"I hated that dog. (Cricket was) dangerous to anyone she came in contact with (and is) less than worthless … as a hunting dog. At that moment, I realized I had to put her down," Noem wrote.

In her memoir titled No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, Noem explained that she then got her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit. "It was not a pleasant job. But it had to be done," she wrote.

She also wrote that she killed a male goat claiming it "loved to chase" her children and knock them down.

"I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn't tell the story here," she wrote as she concluded the story.

Shankhyaneel Sarkar

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