Jeremy Peppas: Hi from rural America. Nobody shoots a high dollar hunting dog. They cost real money. You either offload it to a family friend or make it a house pet. You could also use it for breeding,l, assuming it was registered. Beyond being cruel, and cowardly, it was financially stupid.

Anyone know if Kristi Noem's "farm" is an actual farm that raises economically significant amounts of food and livestock or a hobby/lifestyle farm that they run on the side and in their spare time?

I feel like this is a really common conservative affect, doing hunting or sport fishing or having a dozen chickens on your rural mcmansion tract and turn around and act like youre the one supplying food to all the weak naive city dwellers instead of having an expensive hobby where you kill animals

Ya so it's recreation, not agriculture. If shooting dogs and horses is part of your recreation... bsky.app/profile/phro...

From a couple quick searches, it appears to now mostly just be a hunting retreat. So, no.

Hi from rural America. Nobody shoots a high dollar hunting dog. They cost real money. You either offload it to a family friend or make it a house pet. You could also use it for breeding,l, assuming it was registered. Beyond being cruel, and cowardly, it was financially stupid.

This AP story is a bit of a mess and frankly needs better reporting and editing but still interesting. apnews.com/article/kris...

Politicians and dog experts vilify South Dakota governor after she writes about killing her dogapnews.com Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy.

You’re right. My grandfather raised hunting dogs and was a rancher. I hate how people try to excuse this kind of waste and cruelty by saying “that’s just how they do things out there.”

That's just how assholes do things out there.

Sad but true.

I live in rural Arkansas. That is NOT how things are done around here. Unless you're a complete piece of shit.

I lived in rural Missouri and NO ONE would shoot a hunting pup due to what she wrote. That dog would have simply been relegated to not hunting.

"That dog won't hunt" "All right then, cousin Fran has wanted a puppy for a while. Let's see if she'll take er."

This is exactly how we got our family dog. Breeder wanted to keep him, but didn't have space to keep him. Dog managed to get his jr hunt certification anyway.

Assuming it actually couldn't be trained. "Just take it out with the other dogs" is manifestly not the end all be all of training a hunting dog, particularly one still very young

It sounds like she took it out once and decided it couldn’t be trained doesn’t it? Which…is just fucking insane.

And she sees that as her being able to make the tough executive decisions

We had a neighbor who had a pair German shorthair pointers to hunt with, and sell puppies as hunting dogs. They always sold in pairs or three. EVERY LITTER. Because not every one was gonna work out.

And even the great Jim Harrison, who trained his own dogs his entire life, recounts some dogs that he had to get professional help with. Every dog is different

Or simply trained correctly?

To be fair, she might just be a sociopath.

My family had a big sheep farm, and I made my living herding sheep in the mountains for years, working with countless dogs (and putting down many sheep). Unsuitable dogs were re-homed. Sheep were put down for compassionate reasons. She shot a dog for being a dog, and an uncut goat for being a goat

Farmers do it to other farmer’s dogs when then kill livestock. They don’t do it to their own dogs.

Exactly. And a loose dog killing livestock isn't the dog's fault; it's the owner's fault for letting them run loose. Irresponsible owners are what get dogs shot.

One of my pet dogs is a hunting dog who was afraid of the noise of rifles. Asswipe just abandoned the dog and let him run wild. After some time he got hit by a car and lost the use of a back leg. We adopted him after the surgery and he has lived with us for nearly 10 happy years.

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Similar story here. My dog was picked up by animal control, hungry & injured, wandering the rural part of the county. Had a camo collar, no tags. He limped; X-ray showed hip bone shattered probably hit by a car. I’ve had him for 6 years now, & he’s the sweetest, gentlest thing (unless you’re a cat).

He looks like a terrific friend. I'm glad y'all found each other.

You're doing the Lord's work.

Thank-you. That is kind of you to say.

Thank you for bringing up this important point. Only an idiot wouldn't find a way to put that dog to use or sell it on as a house pet

Or someone with a huge anger problem. Someone should check on her kids

Someone suggested a drinking problem, which would also explain the failing to kill the goat, and why the decision was made then to kill a goat that had been around for years.

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Yeah, like, people *do* stuff like this but the whole community is like "that absolute moron who should never be allowed within ten yards of an animal" for basically forever. Three generations down they're "that insane lady from when gramps was small" and there's a ritual litany to recite.

For real, there is a whole set of "I hate people but love dogs" conservatives whose reaction to this story will be 🤬

There’s names that are known for a hundred miles around for how they treat their animals.

There’s a great short story by Walker Percy about a murder-suicide where the thing that baffles everyone is not the murder-suicide but why you’d also kill a very well-bred hunting dog

A rare Percy mention! I'll share a fun story: As teens Walker and his BFF Shelby Foote found out where Faulkner lived, and determined to meet him. Percy chickened out last minute, as Foote rang the doorbell. He got invited in for a long, convivial chat and Percy sat alone outside in the car.

Also…the dog was still very much a pup??? And forgive me for thinking that maybe the training skills of somebody who’s first thought is to shoot their dog in a gravel pit aren’t the best?

Best commentary I’ve seen so far “If you can’t be trusted to train a dog properly, why would we trust you with the country as a whole?”

Sorry, should have been clearer. Biden’s dogs biting ACAB cops is Great Training. Kristi Noem’s self-reported shooting of her 14-month-old pup due to a training failure is a terrible character reference for her for BOTH actions: failure to train, and killing the dog.

awkward argument in context of supporting biden tho given that his german shepherds bite every cop they see

galaxy brain dot jpeg that’s the strongest argument FOR Biden

Major and Commander know what they are doing.

All Cops Are Beggin strips

You're saying the dogs smell bacon?

instincts are strong, they smell narcs

sounds like he's trained pretty well, tbh

Not if he’s trained the dogs to do that

Like Darth says, INNOCENT!

Major and Commander know that the USSS can’t be trusted for shit

Hi, also from rural America, want to add that hunting retreats (wildlife parks) are for rich people who don’t actually know how to hunt or want to do the work of hunting.

I have a failed hunting dog as a pet that I believe was abandoned at a shelter in the rural part of our state. They're mostly going to be in high demand since they're usually very well trained for a pet dog and not at all hard to find a home for.

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