If animal welfare has become an important subject for many citizens and therefore voters, Donald Trump’s running mate in the November presidential elections clearly does not want to seduce defenders of the animal cause.
In a book to be released on May 7 titled “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward” move America forward) and whose British daily The Guardian has already been able to view the content, the politician illustrates her propensity to make difficult decisions by recounting how she killed her dog.
She believes that her young dog Cricket, intended to be trained for pheasant hunting, had an “aggressive personality”. This 14-month-old female wirehaired pointer was scaring away all the birds because of her excitement. She is also said to have attacked a neighboring family’s chickens: “She would catch one hen at a time, crunching it to death with a single bite, then dropping it to attack another.” An episode which will end with an apology and a check to the chicken owners.
Faced with so much insubordination, Kristi Noem decided to put an end to Cricket’s existence. She explains in her book, “It was not pleasant work, but it had to be done. And once it was over, I realized I had to do another unpleasant job.” This work being the slaughter of the dog with his weapon.
The Republican did not stop there since she still recounts in her memoirs that she also killed a “mean” goat whose smell was “disgusting and rancid” and which loved to “hunt” her children. Finally, she also announced on X that she had recently been obliged to finish 3 horses which had been in her family for twenty-five years.
Obviously many voices were raised against the actions of the Republican candidate, starting with that of Tommy Vietor, former spokesperson for Barack Obama who compared Kristi Noem to the famous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. And more or less amusing parodies have appeared in recent days on social networks. Even the NFL, the American National Football League, took a dig at the governor of South Dakota.
The elected official herself admitted that she was taking a political risk by publicly taking responsibility for her actions: “I think that if I were a better politician, I would not tell this story here. »