Target: Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota
Goal: Take responsibility for the fatal shooting of puppy.
When South Dakota governor Kristi Noem released a new memoir, it was not descriptions of her political career that drew the most attention. Instead, critics—and animal rights advocates—have zeroed in on a passage in which Noem describes killing her pet puppy roughly two decades ago. The dog, a wirehair pointer named Cricket, was only 14 months old when Noem claims she “put her down” by shooting her.
In the book, Noem describes Cricket as “untrainable” and “worthless as a hunting dog.” She also says of the puppy: “I hated that dog.” Noem defended the shooting by claiming that Cricket had “disrupted” a pheasant hunt and had also attacked chickens on a farm.
Critics condemned the callous way Noem described the incident and categorized her actions against a puppy that was still in her developmental stages as horrifying overreach. For example, Noem described the hunt that helped solidify her decision to shoot the puppy in the following terms: “she went out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.” These actions sound like typical behavior for a young dog…a dog that was too young to even be trained for hunting purposes.
On the same day that Noem shot Cricket and disposed of her in a gravel pit, she reports that she also shot to death a goat under her care. And, according to Noem’s own account, this goat likely suffered. It was shot once, and when Noem left to retrieve more bullets, the goat was shot again. Animal welfare activists, and even many hunters, have placed the blame for the Cricket shooting on Noem for failing to train her dog properly and then making the animal pay the ultimate price for it. Recent South Dakota law even suggests Noem may have committed an offense.
Despite the protests and the outcry, Noem continues to defend her actions and use this horrible account to score political points. Sign the petition below to demand a public apology from this unapologetic politician.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Governor Noem,
America’s preeminent animal welfare organization condemned you for “letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to personally blow her brains out rather than attempting to train her or find a more responsible guardian who could provide her with a proper home.” They went on to say, “Noem obviously fails to understand the vital political concepts of education, cooperation, compromise, and compassion.”
Lest you dismiss these criticisms of your puppy shooting as the agenda of “woke” or “extremist” leaders and political opponents, the outcry from a wide spectrum of Americans on social media has been far greater (as #PuppyKiller demonstrates). Hunters, and your own political allies, have weighed in on your seemingly disturbing actions. As a politician and, more importantly, as a human being, you must recognize the gravity of your actions against another living being.
Please reflect on your behavior, demonstrate genuine remorse via a public apology, and show through your actions that you care about all living beings by helping strengthen South Dakota’s animal welfare laws.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Office of the Governor
Evil heartless bitch…get rid of this evil cow
100000000%!!!! Pure garbage!!
How sick is this woman?
Just when you thought politicians could sink no lower.
PATHETIC HUMAN
“No matter how talented, rich or intelligent you are, how you treat animals tells me all I need to know about you.”
Kill her
THIS IS WHAT I KEEP SAYING EXACUTE ALL OF THESE LESS THAN HUMAN BEINGS SICK PHYCOPATHS WHO ABUSE, TORTURE AND KILL ANIMALS THERE IS NO HELP FOR THEM EXCEPT FOR DEATH STRIGHT TO HELL THEY WILL GO!!!!!!!!!!!!
This weird women is NOT above the law- prosecute her for animal cruelty ! Unbelievable – someone else would have loved that dog!
Trauma for her daughter – but of course a Narcissist wouldn’t know!
Face it, she likes to kill. Why didn’t she remove the puppy if she couldn’t handle it?
Why the hell write a book telling all about these incidents when you could’ve just kept your mouth shut about it?!! You’re a heartless bitch! I hope karma comes for you. You deserve to rot in hell 🔥🤬
How is she allowed to be in a position to make ANY decisions!! What a frigging coward!!!! AN EYE FOR AN EYE!!!
She is one gross monster. She is sick and disgusting.
Then someone needs to put this stupid fucking bitch down by putting a bullet right between her fucking eye’s the ugly stupid bitch cause if I still live there I would do and don’t are wouldn’t give a ashit
Worthless bitch!!!
She is not above the law . She needs to be charged with animal cruelty to the maximum. She definitely has a mental problem . This dog and goat did not deserve this barbaric treatment . She is gun happy for killing anything. She does not need to be around children or animals or she might go off the deep end .
She should go to jail for animal cruelty.
She should go to jail for what she did to these innocent animals.
Totally agree though Street Justice would be better, the sort she won’t recover from
Kill the Bitch! Or skin the bitch alive, bury her up to her neck, leave it for the red ants. Bye bitch
She must be charged and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Psychotic POS is a scary subhuman.
Anyone that enjoys killing is evil, bottom line. Who ever votes these maniacs into office is just as sick. I’m disgusted with these heartless pricks getting away with murder without even a slap on the wrist.
Throw this TERRORIST, this ignorant, indolent, evil, vile piece of female human meat into jail, where rather bad men stay, who have to lose nothing, but love and adore animals, They will teach this uneducated devil her one and only lesson….! Nature, what horrible failures are you spitting out???
WOW! This woman is very cold, and has no empathy. I think she could be a border line psychopath.
She needs to be removed from any leadership role.
She needs to be outed and shamed.