Kristi Noem describes in her new book how she kills a dog after a failed hunting trip

South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem describes shooting the family dog ​​after a hunting trip in a forthcoming book, according to a report by the Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book, titled “No Going Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong with Politics and How to Move America Forward.”

In the book, Noem, who is being considered as a possible running mate for former President Trump, describes how she became angry with her nearly 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, Cricket, during a hunting trip.

Noem shot the dog after taking him pheasant hunting.

She writes that she took Cricket hunting in the hope that she would learn from the older dogs, but instead the younger dog ruined the hunt by “chasing all these birds and having the time of his life,” according to the Guardian.

On the way home, the dog escaped from her car and attacked a local family’s chickens. “He grabbed one chicken after another, crushed it with one bite, then dropped it and attacked another,” Noem wrote.

When Noem tried to grab the dog, it turned around and tried to bite her, she wrote. Noem said she wrote the family a check for their chickens and helped them dispose of the carcasses “that littered the crime scene.”

“I hated that dog,” she wrote, adding that Cricket was untrainable, dangerous and useless as a hunting dog.

“At that moment,” Noem wrote, “I realized I had to have her put down.”

She then led Cricket to a gravel pit on her property and shot him. She wrote that it was “not a pleasant job” but “had to be done.”

Noem wrote that she then killed a “bad and mean” goat that smelled and liked to chase her children. Because the goat jumped up at the first shot, she needed two shots to “kill” it.

The Guardian wrote that the story was told as an anecdote to show that Noem believes that sometimes difficult tasks need to be done and that she is not afraid to do them. Noem uses the story to show that she is willing to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done, according to The Guardian.

Noem also wrote that she noticed a construction crew watching her kill the two animals, but the workers returned to work before a school bus dropped off her children.

When her daughter arrived, Noem writes in the book, she looked around confused and asked where Cricket was.

“I guess if I were a better politician, I wouldn’t be telling this story,” Noem wrote.

When The Hill contacted Noem’s office and asked about the report, it referred to a tweet from her personal account.

In the tweet, Noem seemed to confirm the story and said her book would contain more politically incorrect stories.

“We love animals, but on a farm we have to make difficult decisions like this all the time. Sadly, a few weeks ago we had to euthanize three horses that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want to read more real, honest and politically incorrect stories that make the media cringe, pre-order No Going Back,” she wrote.

Updated at 11:43 a.m. ET

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