Let's accept for argument's sake she couldn't find a new home because reasons: she's too unpleasant, irresponsible, selfish, and callous to schedule a vet visit to put the dog down gently?
"I can understand why people are upset...."
Nah, you still think it shows you as a tough decision maker. Instead of someone who didn't look at more options and just took the most convenient way out.
I don't recall anything in her original story about the dog biting people.
What I remember was that the dog she said couldn't be trained to hunt birds was left unrestrained when she visited a neighbor with free roaming chickens and some of them were chased and killed.
Noem's tough decisions on puppies was great preparation for her tough decisions on Covid that gave ND the 9th worst record in deaths per capita in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-1...
Read a report recently about a woman who died after a week+ of suffering after her son's dogs attacked her & were actually eating her alive
Grew up on a farm & raised/fostered many dogs- aggressive dogs need to be taken very seriously
Lordy it is painful to even partially understand her position
I was reading posts that said she put the dog down because it was aggressive & biting people.
Now I've seen the actual excerpt that said she "hated" the dog & decided on the spot to shoot it. I take it all back - her action was completely indefensible.
What's really painful is people who don't recognize this statement as the obvious bullshit that it is and that even if the biting dog story is true (probably not) that level of aggression comes from having shitty owners.
The story is true
The owner was a social worker
The toddler approached the shepherd/wolf mix dog laughing & smiling
The dog, with no prior issues, bit her in the face
The entire family was devastated on multiple levels
The dog was well trained & well cared for - at some point instincts kick in
Sure, there are dogs that are so aggressive they need to be put down. But (A) that's still a failure by the owner in training the animal, and (B) there are better ways to do it than with a gun.
Absolutely agree. Sadly, there's a huge difference between how ranchers deal w/working animals & some pet owners deal w/theirs.
Some people put down family pets w/health issues rather than care for them. Some ranchers put down dogs because they kill stock.
Wait until someone is bitten/maimed/killed?
If you let an untrained dog off its leash in a farmyard and it helps itself to some chicken, that's a problem with an incompetent owner, not a vicious dog.
LOL
The fact that you think there's such a thing as letting a working farm dog "off its leash" tells us everything about what you don't know.
I'm not a fan of hers, but you just want to hate.
A snappish puppy doesn't need to be shot in the head, it needs better training. Excusing this trash with a horror story not even remotely related is quite the stretch. The dog had good reason not to trust her, didn't he?
You can stop a dog killing poultry by... (disgusting alert) tying dead baby duck on the dogs collar. It's on the dog till it rots off. Terribly gross, but highly effective. No need to kill the dog. Option 2:Maybe a new home. If it was aggressively biting, a vet should put it down.
Hey everybody notice how Kristi Noem tried to change the subject from her killing her dog to her killing 1 in 200 residents of South Dakota by her deliberate spreading of COVID 19
I call shenanigans. I don't think she honestly thinks this is something that makes her look like a leader making hard decisions. She wants to piss off the liberal snowflakes while winking to the f%,ck yr feelings crowd.
