She took an untrained PUPPY on a hunt that it obviously wasn’t ready for and then she killed it after it behaved like a puppy.

Jesus Christ. wtf? She shot him because she didn’t understand how to train a dog that was literally bred to grab birds? And she shot it in a gravel pit like a psychopath? And the goat too?! What is happening here?

Cruelty to small animals is a serious sociopath trait. Ask any FBI profiler.

OMG!!!! This is disgusting. This is not farm life. What total BS!!!! Vote her out? Put her in jail!!

She was negligent in multiple ways: 1. Not training the puppy 2. Not containing the puppy while visiting the chicken owning neighbors 3. Not having the goat neutered. What a heinous, awful, psychopath!

I grew up on a cattle ranch... this is not 'regular ' way of life. Adoption, Vetrinary help , training... she is deplorable

Expecting the dog to be a trained hunting dog on his first trip, what a stupid human

No dog is untrainable and it speaks volumes of the incompetent owner.

What you're all now a witness to is a sociopath publicly bragging about killing a dog.

The mention of her daughter getting home from school and asking, "Where's Cricket?", makes it clear that this was a family pet, not just a hunting dog.

Animal abuse is not just the result a of minor personality flaw....it's a symptom of a deep mental disturbance.

Animal abuse is a felony in South Dakota. Report Kristi Noem to the Attorney General’s office.

Only a sociopath shoots a puppy.

She comes across as a sociopath and this just confirms it.

I can't think of anything more inhumane than harming an animal in a despicable manner.

This woman needs to be arrested for animal cruelty. She literally admitted to a crime. Why is she not in handcuffs right now?

She should be arrested for animal cruelty and should not be running for any office!

In UK, she would be charged with animal cruelty. It is disgusting to kill a helpless puppy.

She thinks she’s tough killing defenceless animals.

Animal cruelty. Who would shoot a puppy and a goat? This proves my point on why I won't vote for Trump. I'm sure he will ignore this and will applaud her on her actions.

'You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.' Paul McCartney

From Canada We adopted an identical dog who was brought up from Georgia. He had been deemed ‘dangerous’ by the Georgia Humane Society, and was going to be put down. The Canadian Terrier group rescued him, flew him to Canada and he is the most loving, happy little dog you could imagine. We adore him, and he loves living in Canada This twisted woman personifies the level of stupidity currently gripping a significant portion of American society. I understand she gave her young grand child a revolver for a birthday. As a well known author recently said “America does not have a political problem. America has a mental health problem”. We agree. Good luck🇨🇦

It is against the law in her state to do what she did: and she is the governor

Honestly she needs charged with child abuse too for the mental abuse she has put her children through.

If you are her kid, you better behave and avoid walks to gravel pits

Isn’t killing puppies a sign of psychopathy?

Killing a puppy instead of training it is just pure evil. My Westie puppy bit my feet constantly. She drew blood. I spent 6 months training her out of it, and years reinforcing her socialization, for 16 years she was the most friendly, loving, funny dog. Im so glad she was part of my life, and I strive to be as friendly and positive as she was every day.

She doesn't sound like she has any problem-solving skills. I would hate to see what she would do to elderly or sick people who have multiple problems that are hard to solve.

Only a sociopath would murder a puppy.

This is a puppy!!!!! How could she say a puppy is untrainable???? Did she even try to get him trained? So disturbing. Noam is bat shit crazy

I grew up on a farm with hunting dogs what your reporters read and what Norm has said really doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t claim to know all of what happened but the suggestion they put down a young dog a male goat and 3 25 year old horses in such a short time period is disturbing. We had to put down animals but was extremely rare and the majority of the time it was a coordinated effort with a veterinarian. I can only think of once where my father had no choice to do it with an injured animal to keep him from suffering from his injuries. We NEVER EVER did that to a healthy animal with a gun. She needs to seek professional help! Damn!

I still mourn "my puppy" who’s been gone for 3 years after having her for over 15 years.

Oh my. My rescue puppy was a real challenge. We never gave up. She just passed at 13 and I’ll miss her forever. This lady is a literal monster.

I don't know what's worse. The fact that she literally shot her puppy because she didn't know how to train it, or the fact that she thinks this is "normal" enough behavior to actually write about it in her book.

Noem is disgusting to have killed a puppy just cause she couldn’t be bothered to train it. Gross

This story broke my heart. My sweet golden doodle, Koko, has been struggling with colitis for weeks now, and every flare-up keeps me up at night. The thought of someone harming a healthy puppy is more than I can bear.

She would be facing criminal charges in Michigan. Vote her out.

Killing animals for behaving like animals? Sounds a little psychotic to me.

There’s something wrong with that woman, she killed her dog and she is banned from at 10% of her state! How can you kill your dog????

Sounds to me like she was the one with the aggressive personality. The dog was just doing what its breed was bred to do. DUH, Noem.

That is animal cruelty. Period.

She not only killed the dog and goat, she killed 3 horses too.

😮this is definitely animal cruelty and doesn’t deserve any more recognition, she should be ashamed, banned from doing , anything in public positions evet

this story has sickened me down to the core. A 14 month old PUPPY did not deserve to be executed in a gravel pit. 😢😢😢

She is a monster. We only know about the animals she wrote about in her book. How many more have lost their lives because she deemed them „worthless”?

Sick person kills animals, even sicker person boasts that it shows strength????

She is a terrible person for killing a puppy. How can she have empathy which is a core value to be a good person.

My Dad once chased a goat around shooting at it. That guy was a sociopath.

The Psychopathic Narcissist often finds seemingly rational reasons to kill animals that always have a bizarre logic like this.

She could have called many people to take her dog. There’s no reason to have killed her dog. That’s just sick!

My family has had Irish terriers for 25 years. They have a particularly strong, “difficult” temperament and are highly intelligent because they independently worked on Irish farms to keep them free of vermin and they were also guard dogs for their families. They LOVE children and are happy go lucky, but they are physically fearless with very strong determined minds, requiring strong, VERY loving structure built into every moment so that they always know who is in charge. When they sense their owners aren’t taking charge of things, they will become unhappy and will assert themselves. I remember asking our breeder what she thought of shock collars for this breed, because I think the method of “training” is horrible, and she said, “The Irish will very quickly learn to withstand the pain of the highest settings, and then they hate their owners forever.” I cannot imagine how that barbaric, sadistic Governor treats her children.

The dog was her daughter's pet, what a rotten mother.

Not surprised at this story. Most civilized and caring people will never understand the mind of soulless people like Noem.

she is pure evil

Her admission of animal abuse is appalling

Obviously Noen has no idea how to write a book. Her antidote creates a picture of a woman being driven by hatred and disjointed priorities, ending with her child asking "Hey, where's Cricket?" Many other questions have been created with this little episode. She is living in her own world. Not everyone is as hardhearted-- even farmers.

Instead of rehoming them. What an evil person. I can't even kill a bug that gets in to my house much less a family member. If she can do that to an animal because she didn't want to put any effort in to them, imagine her empathy as a politician.

If you kill a dog for that reason it says a lot about what kind of a so called person you are.

Again, with MAGA, as always, they are grimly determined to prove to us all that THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT.

So sad some people should never own pets

Noem, the puppy killer, also killed a goat. Vote her out.

That's not farm life, real farm life only puts down an animal if its suffering.

She couldnt call a vet to her farm or ranch to help her puppy or goat?

She killed that dog because her daughter loved it.Shes a narcissistic mother.

Only DJT would pick this woman as a VP. This behavior doesn't bother him at all. No wonder the Sioux outlawed her on the reservation.

Tell me how you treat an animal and that is EVERYTHING i need to know about you --Noem is a narcissist

What a disgusting human being to have killed a PUPPY in such a cruel way and then think that she has the right values to lead people. She is a real life Cruella De Vil!

She's the kind of person that would fire someone for making two mistakes.

I think she just described Trumps approach to Pence-training.

Anybody else would be charged with animal cruelty.

Is this woman going to be investigated for animal abuse?

Cruelty is a big turn on for the GOP.

she should have called a rescue for both. There are dog and farm animal rescues out there. Her anger did it.

Killing a family pet and not preparing your children is a big emotional disconnect. Documenting her actions in a book and not understanding the public backlash illustrates a big disconnect. Disturbing.

Everyone is skipping the obvious. If this woman couldn't be happy with the dog she could have placed it in another home with someone who could provide it with a happy life.

Over the last decades our family has easily had about 30 dogs. Many pointers. NOT ONE had such behavior in adolescence. Dont fault the dog which you were unable to train because you were too lazy to do so, Noem. That is some seriously sick behavior, unfit for VP

That dog had perfect instincts as a hunting dog. Didn't she understand that? Its not the dog's fault Noam never learned to train a hunting dog.

I hope she's investigated for animal cruelty and charged. Always thought she was disgusting 🤮 now its confirmed.

The little girl asking for the dog shows that the dog wasn’t a wild beast. It was loved by someone.

My granny said, "REHOME the puppy; however, Noem sounds like she's describing what she would do to people she dislikes or disagrees with."

She killed a puppy and a goat

I almost can't keep listening to this!! I can't!! A tough decision is if you have to put an animal down for illness or injury!! Dogs chase birds!! Goats smell!! Holy *uck!!! 😮😢 Cruel. Both animals could have been surrendered!!!

A sociopath chose another sociopath to be veep. Shocking.

She doesn’t mention if she also had to put the horses down because of her failings as an animal owner

Gruesome story. Her insensitivity to her daughter's reaction is unbelievable.

Animal cruelty charges now!!!!!

She is a monster. She's out of her mind. Murder

She should of took the young puppy to animal shelter if she had a problem with it & hated the puppy. Shooting the puppy in the face is cold, wrong & was inhumane. Let a child have the puppy & give it life & love. Horrific story😮

Killing a defenseless dog is not being tough.

WTF?! What kind of a person kills a puppy?! Ladies and gentlemen, your Republican party.

Noem isn't the only person that thinks pets are just agriculture. There are plenty of instances in the south, were people dump their unwanted dogs on country roads, and when those dogs look for help, and wander on others property, they get shot by the land owners. Thousands of dogs are transported to the north, because we UNDERSTAND it's NOT the dogs that failed, it's those things called HUMANS that failed.

Sounds like Cricket’s human is also a trained assassin. She is terrible and this story is heartbreaking

To raise a dog is like raising a kid. You have to take time with them, you have to be a parent to them.

“There are no bad dogs, only bad owners.”

Only a sociopath kills a puppy. Oops just saw I’m not the first with this thought .

What I want to know is why she hasn't been indicted for her confession? UM... the charge would be cruelty to animals!!! After all, she ADMITS that she killed her dog and goat! And it wasn't because she "needed to eat". This woman should and needs to be charged with this crime!! If not for anything else, her showing how stupid she really is in regards to that she obviously doesn't know and realize that an animal, ALL ANIMALS, can be trained and have their behavior changed and that it wasn't necessary for her to had killed that puppy or goat!! SMH

She failed her responsibility to raise and train Cricket as a bird dog. Astonishing doesn’t cover her lack of training knowledge. Shame on her.

Utterly disgusting and unjustifiable. Being on a farm doesn't validate arbitrarily, impatiently deciding to kill a dog or other farm animal because you don't like it. I grew up on a farm. My father, over 50 years ago, had to shoot our dog, but it was because it had been seriouly injured when it had been hit by a car and wouldn't have survived. I know it broke his heart because he loved our dog and it was an act of kindness. He never shot an animal because he didn't like it. He carried a pistol when handling possibly dangerous animals like boars and bulls in case he was attacked (he never was).😢

Pain, fear and intimidation. Sounds like the new Republican MO.

Imagine thinking that bragging about ruthlessly killing a dog, no less a pet will earn you cool points from the public. Insane.