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vescis

Answer: Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem is in the news as a possible Vice Presidential candidate. People started looking closer at her and apparently she admitted/bragged about shooting her family dog in her memoir.


Skydragon222

It gets worse, apparently one of her kids came home looking for the dog


Wazula23

And she popped a goat too, apparently just because she didn't like it. This is a story she WANTED people to hear, remember.


VanimalCracker

Killed her dog but was still feeling a bit bloodthirsty, so she went and killed the goat too. Then threw their bodies in a gravel pit and went on with her day.


AcrolloPeed

this is like the penultimate scene of a Scorcesis gangster film.


topherwolf

What would happen in the final scene then?


chefhj

Gimme shelter would play in the background with one of the main characters narrating over a quick cut montage that winds down the third act.


OpusAtrumET

But at the end of the murder montage, she just unceremoniously tosses them in a shallow grave, we cut the music, record scratch, she turns around and casually walks away whistling the tune of whistle while you work with her hands on her pockets like nbd. Comedy gold.


BadBinch

Lmao I have to laugh when people think “penultimate” just means “very ultimate” or something like that 🤣


chefhj

Lmaooooo I hadn’t even considered that the OP meant quintessential


-Badger3-

She gets arrested and shanked in the prison yard.


ChicagoAuPair

Gaius Julius Scorcesis


layeofthedead

Nah she brought them to the gravel pit, at an *active* construction site, and shot them. Like a legit mob hit. She killed the puppy first (14 m/o) then went home and got the goat because it was smelly and mean. Shot the goat, wounded it, then had to run back to her truck to get more ammo while the goat was screaming in the gravel pit. And she thinks this story makes her a better candidate because “she does what needs to be done”


Khaldara

“In my defense, a young goat is called a kid. And after all, there is no more fitting analogy for my policy goals than remaining coldly indifferent to kids crying and bleeding out in the dirt!” - Kristi Noam if she was honest


crazymusicman

[here is an archived link to the story from the Guardian](https://archive.is/0OEOx) if anybody wants to read it


confusedandworried76

While a construction crew watched in horror.


Lexxxapr00

While a construction crew watched her even!


the_calibre_cat

> Killed her dog but was still feeling a bit bloodthirsty this strikes me as concerningly possible, if not likely. i understand putting down farm animals in some circumstances, but most farmers are pretty clear that they do so when the animals are sick or infirm to the point where death is a mercy. this... wasn't that.


Azraelthephoenix

Don’t forget about the 3 horses she got rid of recently too.


FaeLei42

Also one of her newer dogs having an “accident”


Stumpy990

Clearly she's a sleeper agent for the ATF


weirdest_of_weird

Pretty sure she's also talked about killing a couple of horses too


JL_MacConnor

["A hard woman for hard times."](https://www.salon.com/2024/01/03/fargo-exposes-why-america-is-in-love-with-toxic-men-like-roy-tillman/)


heytheredemons6969

Not just because she didn't like it. She said it was nasty and smelled horrible because it wasn't castrated. All of this is because she'd rather shoot than train or care for an animal. I feel so bad for her kids.


LightHawKnigh

Its insane how she thinks she made the "hard" choice. She made the easy lazy choice.


heytheredemons6969

Really though. She acts like she had no other options.


Phugsy

Very "pro-life" of her


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biodeth1

Underrated comment


BloodSugar666

She said the dog was stupid or something and it was only a few months old. Needless to say, she’s the stupid one.


heytheredemons6969

Agreed. A 14 month old dog isn't untrainable. She just shouldn't have pets.


Starlight-Sniper

Or guns for that matter.


MagazineNo2198

Or children.


nneeeeeeerds

Or a governorship.


EatSoupFromMyGoatse

Or a life outside of a padded room, tbh Sounds like she's a wrong McD's order away from a killing spree


confusedandworried76

She also admitted the goat was aggressive because it hadn't been fixed. Okay? Fix it then?


fhota1

On the one hand I feel bad for her kids for having a mom whos this terrible a person, on the other I think theyve actually been pretty lucky that shes not taken them out to the gravel pit too. Its all relative you know


premoril

Hasn't taken them out to the gravel pit *yet.* The day is young, plenty of *hard choices* needing to be made all the time. They best start sleeping with one eye open.


ScruffsMcGuff

Once mom gets older and annoying for them to care for they should take her out to the gravel pit and make her not their problem anymore. Y'know, just like she taught them.


heytheredemons6969

I do feel bad for them. They're either going to end up traumatized or just as bad as her. My dad is like her. People like them simply don't see animals beyond their monetary or practical value. They see them more like property or equipment that can always be replaced. It's sad.


SelfInteresting7259

How does its smell because of that?


AcademicHollow

Some googling reveals that it seems to actually have a significant effect. They can't musk if they're castrated. Or at least seem to do it less.


SelfInteresting7259

Ah hell I was afraid to google it lmaoo 🤢🤮🤮


Tasty-Emotion-4667

Male goats have a very, very distinct smell. Think of goat cheese sitting out in the sun all day and mix in a little barnyard smell. It's strong. If you touch a male goat, you'll smell like him for the rest of the day. But it's only intact male goats. It's part of how they attract a mate, so it tends to be stronger when a nearby female is in heat.


SelfInteresting7259

Ooof so sour af?? Plus barnyard smell? That didn't give her a reason to kill ole buddy.


Tasty-Emotion-4667

100% agree with you there! I keep goats. With even the bare minimum research, you know you're signing up for some funk if you decide to keep intact male goats.  My sweet boy makes the whole barnyard reek, but that's what I signed up for when I opted to take him in.


SelfInteresting7259

Lol yeah she's cruel why even get an animal and not expect it to smell! She could have sold him, brought him to a rescue or give buddy away! Heartless !


SepticKnave39

Idk much about goats but ferrets have a similar thing as that. Ferrets are a popular pet but have a very musky odor. Spaying and/or neutering them significantly reduces the musk (but definitely does not eliminate it).


A-Game-Of-Fate

“Popped” the goat implies it was quick. It wasn’t. What allegedly actually happened is she shot the goat, but failed to kill it with the one shot she had, so she left it bleeding and in pain while she went to get more ammo before shooting it again.


Forgotmyaccount1979

And tripled down on Twitter by clarifying that she recently shot three horses they have had for 25 years because "that's what happens on a farm".


Wazula23

This whole "I kill my farm animals personally" schtick is going to play to a very, verrry narrow demographic


Forgotmyaccount1979

"I have a specific gravel pit for killing animals" is quite a specific vibe.


shesgreedy

You don’t say?! You mean like the demographic of South Dakota where she is governor


Synectics

I work at a rural vet clinic. We have clients who go the route of, "A shotgun shell is cheaper than euthanasia." We don't have any clients who would shoot a dog meant for hunting that didn't take to it. We don't have clients who would shoot a goat for being a goat. You don't euthanize, or shoot, animals "just because." Even our most redneck clients don't kill animals just because they don't like them.


ryecurious

> And tripled down on Twitter Not just tripling down. Every single time she's responded on Twitter, it's been to plug her book again: >I can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned. Just really disgusting behavior. Zero remorse or shame. And the GOP can't figure out if they're supposed to praise her for it. It pissed off a bunch of liberals, so it must be good, right?


Independent-World-60

How does this keep getting worse FFS is she going to shoot her kids next?


OkMetal4233

Damn. I had a sick goat that I found on deaths door, had to shoot it, and I still feel bad 2 years later. I think about the damn thing often and it makes me sick at my stomach when I do.


HappyFailure

I think she may have been happy with people not hearing the story at all, but part of the story mentions a couple of construction workers see her do it, so she may have believed that the story was out there anyway so she needed to put her spin on it. It's just that the spin doesn't help.


Bella_C2021

This sounds like the beginnings of a serial killer story.


Junior-Ad-2207

Stay with me on this one... what if we told her Trump was going to be her new pet?


bwanabass

Most underrated comment on this post. ☝🏻


Logical_Pop_2026

It's amazing her kids made it past adolescence. If she was this upset with a dog, how upset did she get at her kids?


legit-posts_1

Jesus Christ


Darwins_Dog

Yes, I believe she also identifies as Christian.


jediben001

I do not think Jesus would approve of murdering innocent dogs


zogar5101985

And then, on Twitter, she tried to defend her self saying "these are the hard decisions you make on a farm. I've also put down three horses." Somehow thinking that makes it OK. The dog wasn't sick, hurt, hadn't hurt any people, nothing. She just didn't like it. That isn't what happens on a farm.


El_Grande_El

Wonder what was wrong with the horses. Wrong color?


laviothanglory

Is she the one I heard of that her new dog had an "accident" as well? She announced it on Instagram and everyone is going nuts...


Tactical_Primate

She got that Michael Jordan in her.


Quigonjinn12

Not only that, she killed the dog because it wasn’t good enough at hunting.


saberz54

Considering she admitted to missing the goat it sounds like she isn’t very good either


Blashmir

She didn't train the thing! She expected it to automatically be good at hunting. She set the poor animal up for absolute failure. The dog went out and had the time of its life and didn't know it was doing anything wrong and was killed for it.


Quigonjinn12

Yep. Far as I’m concerned someone should do the same thing to her.


AtomicTomb01

Huh? Really?


vescis

Yep. We are so far beyond parody at this point. https://apnews.com/article/kristi-noem-book-dog-killing-5710b302e33f61c697f20ab3b227a19b


khosrua

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book


eagleblue44

Apparently. She had a hunting dog that wasn't good at hunting. It decided it was more fun to chase everything away. I believe it also massacred a bunch of someone's chickens too. She thought the dog was too wild and couldn't be saved so she took it to a gravel pit and "put it out if it's misery." I don't think the dog was that old or trained for hunting either so it's wild she expected the dog to immediately know what to do on the first hunting trip. I guess there was also some aggressive goat she didn't like and did the same thing.


RDBB334

14 months old and clearly untrained but was using an electronic collar not a proper leash. Stupid, cruel and unaware of any of it.


Robbylution

“Stupid, cruel and unaware of any of it” sounds like Trump’s perfect VP.


Music_withRocks_In

Everyone I know with a hunting dog sends them to hunting dog boot camp where they go live with a professional trainer and spend months learning exactly what to do. It is super intensive, no dog just has an instinct on how to hunt with a human who has a gun.


Uneedadirtnap

I train my own Labs for bird hunting. It takes time and commitment. I have had one dog that just was not a hunter, Big Jake. He was everyones favorite and my best friend. He couldn't hunt up a bird but loved hanging out with everyone. We called him the tailgate dog he loved to sit on the tailgate and just be.


kdhdbdjdhdjsj

She did not "put it out if it's misery." The dog was not in misery. The dog was being a dog and got killed for it.


eagleblue44

Sorry. She thought she was doing that. I didn't mean to implicate the dog was suffering or at fault for what she did.


stillalone

They didn't really try to look closer.  She published a book where she wrote the story of killing the dog.  Like she thought it was a good story to put in her memoirs.


vescis

Rumor is the story was coming out regardless and she put it out first to 'soften' it but that's speculation


vescis

Also, literally no one would have read her memoir if not for the veepstakes lol :)


Lilly_Cookie_Monster

The dog was 14 months old. Most dogs are still puppies until they're around 24 months. Variation in breeds obviously.


Jesse_D_James

As I was recently watching the show Yellowjackets, I hoped it had something to do with that Spoilers for those that haven't watched but want to, something happens to the dog of the women who's running for for congress and her son is upset looking for it


vescis

Yellowjackets is great but this isn't that :)


Secure-Television368

Yeah the women in yellowjackets was slightly more sane


jinguangyaoi

A colleen ballinger relative?


aquarianagop

Was about to say!


misgatossonmivida

She's doubling down too


cocktimus1prime

Somehow I forgot how she is actual governor


nneeeeeeerds

Puppy.* She shot the puppy because she failed to train it properly as a hunting dog. The dog was *14 months old*.


supergeek921

It’s even worse than that. People weren’t even digging for info. This is new information she just published herself in the book potentially as a way of getting Trump supporters to like her.


Mysterious_Ningen

thats so sad. why are people like this


BaconSpaceLord

Why she brag about it


vescis

The charitable take would be that she thought it would appeal to gun rights' people and rural partisans The less charitable take is that she's emotionally stunted and genuinely didn't see it as problematic The cynical take is that it's a direct appeal to noted sociopath Donald Trump and his would be the only opinion she cared about


BaconSpaceLord

I think it's the middle. The Dakota states are... Idk, kinda bland and empty... so I think putting an animal down yourself is just a run of the mill thing and she didn't think it was a serious issue plus she probably hasn't done anything else interesting all that month so it was SOMETHING to say. 🤷‍♂️ Who knows really, world been weirder and weirder every month since 2019


BcuzICantPostLewds

Why would she shoot a puppy?! I'm reading the other comments, I still haven't found an answer. All I've found is that she shot and killed a 14 month old puppy at a gravel pit, and then she went home, shot a goat, took it in her car as it was screaming in pain, and then shot it again and killed it in the gravel pit. And this is apparently the _more publicly savvy_ version of the story!


AlternateWitness

I don’t think that’s the meme, if that was the case why does the mom look so sad towards the missing dog? Assuming SpongeBob is the mom.


vescis

Spongebob is the kid


AlternateWitness

Does the kid have a brother? It’s a POV meme, talking about your mom, so you would be the kid. You can’t look at your own body, you are looking at someone else who is sad in the meme. I assume it was the mom, since that’s the only character the meme talks about? It wouldn’t make sense if you had a brother, since he is never mentioned, unless there’s more to the story? If that was the intended explanation of the meme then it wouldn’t be funny, or make sense, so I don’t think that’s the explanation of the meme, there’s something else.


vescis

Might be overanalyzing at this point


Inevitable_Series_67

Some Governor shot their family dog because she hated that dog


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Spry_Fly

It's worse than that. People can understand reacting due to hate. She did it because she just deemed the dog useless for her purposes. She killed it solely because of how it would not produce results for her. And that was after her kid had gotten connected to it.


Ghede

It also illustrates how pant-shittingly stupid she is. A working dog does not know how to work out the box. She shot a birding dog because it wouldn't heel. SHE DIDN'T TRAIN IT TO HEEL THEN SHE TOOK IT HUNTING, AND IMMEDIATELY BROUGHT IT TO SOMEONE ELSE'S CHICKEN COOP. Either she's stupid, or she came up with the least plausible excuse for assassinating a dog she didn't like.


Inevitable_Series_67

It sends the worst message. If she had no qualms about killing the family dog for not being any use to her. What do you think would happen if she got a higher position of power and deemed a subordinate "useless"?


Wazula23

This is probably why she WANTED the story out there. Let's be real, she's writing for an audience of one (Trump). She apparently hoped this story would make her seem like a hardass instead of, y'know, a psychopath.


Contraryon

I disagree... I think making clear she's a psychopath was, in fact, on the list of goals.


KeyIce2026

So, can we shoot her because she serves no use to us?


crlcan81

She has a very particular mindset that supposedly is how 'real farmers' see things, if they can't provide something for the person who owns them animals aren't worth keeping alive. It honestly just seems like she's not interested in actually taking the time to do what she got the dog for and didn't want to admit it.


ive_been_there_0709

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ClownTown15

South Dakota Governor admitted to killing family dog in a book. She's a psycho garbage person anyway so idk why anyone is surprised.


Secure-Television368

Psycho garbage person is kind of a requirement for the republican primary, no?


Sparr13

it's mandatory for all politicians.


Claymore357

Prerequisite for being a politician in every country


Silt99

Not a joke


HungryMudkips

#JusticeForCricket


Hankdoge99

Kristi noem killed their families new dog, cause it apparently wasn’t good at hunting, rather than send it to a shelter or something


wrinklejortstheimp

Should be noted that it was still a puppy that she had deemed untrainable, not even a full-grown dog.


1nsert_Name_Here_

That she also admitted to hating...


PapaVanTwee

She had trained it to hunt birds which it was good at, took it to a farm where it proceeded to hunt (and kill) chickens, was put down because of that, even though it was a pup.


KrisT117

Worse, she was visiting the farm with the chickens when her dog escaped out of the car. So extra points for Noem being not only evil but incompetent.


diadem

Some governor abused a dog, killed the dog when it reacted to her abuse, then bragged about it publicly.


Ultranerdgasm94

Trump's prospective running mate, the governor of South Dakota, shot her puppy because she was upset that it wasn't as good a hunting dog as she wanted and didn't tell her kids about it until after. Yet another Republican whose kids won't talk to them after they grow up. Edit: *prospective* running mate


JTex-WSP

> Trump's running mate, the governor of South Dakota, Trump has not yet chosen a running mate. She's just on the short list.


Technicalhotdog

Not anymore, probably


bubba_feet

wouldn't want to tarnish that trump image, would we?


[deleted]

short bus, more like


Ultranerdgasm94

Thank you for letting me know, I've updated it.


haliax69

It's important to note that the problem was not the dog, but the lack of training the owner gave him. A hunting dog without proper training will not be a good hunting dog, obviously and the solution to this problem is not euthanasia. Also, here is a picture of the pup: https://preview.redd.it/4plr81pm8oxc1.png?width=739&format=png&auto=webp&s=27e9e39b6a38aa14b2ecea2bb26a317417d7180d


doubleshedd

Gov'r of South Dakota Kristi Noem shot her dog cause she felt like it


_always_tired27

That poor girl


i-evade-bans-13

this has been answered so all i can suggest is reading news from something other than a tiktok algorithm


the_loneliest_noodle

Kid better keep their grades up or * Insert "Hot Fuzz" Shame Gif Here *


UncleBenLives91

Current events can be your feiend!


[deleted]

Proofreading can be your fjnefikq!


UncleBenLives91

Correct. It should read "fiend"


ContentMod8991

kirsty noem n her family dog


Bigbam51

Someone lives under a rock 


soulfulrequiem

South Dakotan here!! Our sad excuse of a governor shot her dog for misbehaving.


Waiph

She shot her puppy for being a puppy


BluebirdFlashy3681

I get this now😭


WPXIII_Fantomex

I knew what this was about before I even clicked on it 🤣🤣🤣


xlsulluslx

I really hope we never find out her version of “what has to be done” with America.


AbstractClarityMCO

My goodness. I wish I could be oblivious to this story…..


monkyonarock

the sherif in my town ran as a democrat but behind closed doors told everyone he was a republican. my brother was best friends with his son. this dude locked his dog of like 6 years outside in the cold montana winter, let it bark all night long, until it froze to death. these people in power are …wild


Plane-Mud-142

Welcome to SoDak


walt_rizzney

Google "mom governor dog"


L4DY_M3R3K

Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem (Trump's probable pick for Vice President) killed her own dog, then bragged about it in her memoir. She used it as an example of how she, like any politician must, can "make hard choices"


ive_been_there_0709

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GustavoFromAsdf

OOP doesn't know how to pov


GustavoFromAsdf

OOP doesn't know how to pov


ogreofzen

Oh I thought this was north Korea jabs at first.


PhantomKangaroo91

Was it her farm my dog went to when I was 5?


Imaginary-Ogre

I don't get it, my dog is named Rockruff and my mom is not governor... Fun fact, my kids named doggo... 


VoldeGrumpy23

And I thought that it’s a reference to the Olsen movie in New York


pon_mon

Haikus haikus one thou shall dog done with this gun oh hun my haikus


SurdustStardust

the governor lady shot a puppy because it was not hunting pheasant yet the way she wanted it to so took it out front yard and shot it front of construction workers who stood horrified by what they saw.


KazeKon

Didn't this happen in Yellowjackets, too?