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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNoem's killing of her goat is just as bad
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/29/kristi-noem-misdemeanour-shooting-dogSnip
Instead, Noems startling description of her decision to kill Cricket and also an unnamed, un-castrated and unruly goat has pitched her into an unprecedented political storm.
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One of the accounts of what she wrote said she complained of the goat being smelly and knocking her children down ruining their clothes.
If you know about goats, uncastrated males like to pee on themselves to attract females, they also have active smelly glands for attracting females. Goats are energetic and interact with each other and other animals and humans with head butting. If you are keeping a male goat for breeding, deal with it. If you want a pet, have them castrated. The smell usually goes away and they may calm down a bit.
She killed the goat as well as the puppy for being natural, both unspeakable acts. IHMO
/rant off
Demovictory9
(32,571 posts)Blue Owl
(50,900 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(25,052 posts)Perhaps she is preparing herself to kill humans?
Xavier Breath
(3,742 posts)OMGWTF
(4,041 posts)Kristi only wounded the goat with the first shot so had to go away for a bit to get another bullet to finish the job while the poor animal suffered. I hate these people.
Probatim
(2,596 posts)The shotgun, with the wrong loads, would have been painful and messy.
Killing these animals is awful enough - doing it poorly is even more grotesque.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,976 posts)I'm sure there are some humane groups in her state who would have taken them off her hands.
3catwoman3
(24,255 posts)Unfortunately, she did.
H2O Man
(73,913 posts)Thank you. Goats are fascinating beings.
Uncle Joe
(58,763 posts)Thanks for the thread deminks
bdamomma
(64,069 posts)dictators do not have someone 2nd in line??? tRump wants to be the thug boss.
Uncle Joe
(58,763 posts)"Hang _________________ _________________!"
Problem solved.
niyad
(114,542 posts)cadaver dog over it.
leftieNanner
(15,235 posts)Oh. That's not precisely what you meant.
PatrickforB
(14,629 posts)flashman13
(725 posts)would let us ride him. But there was a couple of adults that he did his best to butt. Animals are sensitive that way.
pwb
(11,422 posts)Conservative Republicans still just kick their dogs.
Baitball Blogger
(46,881 posts)They have guns and they want to use them. Guns are a gateway weapon.
ShazzieB
(16,840 posts)The cheekbones in that Guardian photo are really ... prominent. I would swear they did not always look that way.
Not that there's anything wrong with surgically enhancing one's appearance, of course. But it's not great to go to extremes, and this looks extreme to me.
ALBliberal
(2,399 posts)We will just say this wont endear her to them. There was a pet goat and it was a precious part of the story.
AllyCat
(16,325 posts)She should never be in charge of animal or human care. She thought this was something to gloat about in a book.
She sucks.
3catwoman3
(24,255 posts)The human part is questionable.