context: this kristi noem lady wrote a memoir and trying to demonstrate her good leadership qualities, she told this story, which my mom read out loud in the living room to me as it appeared in the book when this news first broke:
She had a young dog she was training for pheasant hunting. The dog was not very well behaved, as is typical of dogs in the stage between puppy and proper adulthood. The dog was causing a lot of problems, typical puppy things, culminating in the dog attacking the neighbor's chickens. This was the last straw for mrs. kristi noem so she took the dog to a gravel pit and shot it dead.
She also had a goat, an intact male, who was ornery and would headbutt and knock down the young kids, so while she was at it, she decided to take the goat to the designated animal-executing gravel pit and kill it as well.
She shot the goat, but didn't kill it, instead leaving it injured and thrashing, and then she discovered she was out of ammunition, so she had to go to her truck to get some, and at this point her kids get home from school and are asking where their dog is.
Yeah, she put this shit in her book thinking it would make her look GOOD.
The point was supposed to be that she is willing to make tough or uncomfortable decisions in support of a greater good, but the point actually became that she causes problems that should be easily anticipated, doesn't take responsibility for it, and seeks the most extreme and violent possible solutions to the problems she caused herself.
She tried to say "People just don't understand the harsh realities of rural life!" Bullshit. Every part of this story is just shameful
when having trouble training a (still very young) dog, instead of thinking she needs to try different training methods or simply more patience, she decides that the dog is Inherently Bad
she thought killing was the only option for a dog that couldn't be trained the way she wanted
the dog was just exhibiting normal behaviors of a high prey drive adolescent dog
she was letting the dog run loose???
she expected the dog to tell the difference between pheasants and chickens????????
even though her children apparently considered this dog a pet, she doesn't even have a conversation with her kids about the dog before deciding to kill it.
after killing the dog, she decides ON IMPULSE to kill a GOAT as well
The goat's nuisance behaviors (head butting and knocking over other similar sized creatures) are the expected behaviors of an uncastrated male goat. nothing could be more normal for an intact goat buck.
the goat is, apparently, also running loose with no enclosure or pasture of any kind. Either that or her kids regularly play in the pasture of the intact male goat.
i don't know man, farmer family friend has goat bucks to breed his does, and there are small children at his house basically every day, and no small children are getting knocked over by goats due to a revolutionary technology known as a fence
She fails to kill the goat by shooting it at point blank range
She fails to check and see how much ammunition she has before shooting the goat, and doesn't have any ammunition close at hand, leaving the goat to suffer in fear and pain.
It's just. weird and horrible.
like i am redneck adjacent enough to understand that sometimes you have to "put down" an animal and shooting an animal can be a very humane way of killing it, but these are not justified circumstances, basically nobody would think they were, and only a cruel and twisted individual would impulsively decide to kill an animal out of frustration without discussing it with the other people who see that animal as a pet, let alone kill another animal riding on the bloodlust of killing the first one. And you absolutely should not be "putting down" an animal by gunshot if you have so little competence with a gun. If you can't be certain that the creature will be gone the instant you pull the trigger and will never feel any fear or pain, you can't do it humanely
but somehow she didn't have the self-insight to realize that this story makes her look like an incompetent, murderous freak
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