[April 30, 2024] AP: Politicians and dog experts vilify South Dakota governor after she writes about killing her dog
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Bullshit. It was not a tough decision she took the easy way out. Put the dog up for adoption not put a bullet in the dogs body.
This really just reminded me of this old Onion video:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpaue3Jhn1o
Someone needs to check if her eyes dilate after the first kill confirm. Her having multiple multi-animal executions like that is fucking wild.
AP kind of burying the lede here, and suggests her gambit to get ahead of the story is already somewhat successful since we're all still mostly talking about it under the framing of animal rights and rural lifestyles. Kristi Noem didn't decide to "put down" these animals, she went on a murderous rampage. She's a psycho who will kill you if you piss her off and she thinks she can get away with it.
I hope someone's trying to find those witnesses.
Let's do a quick fact check. The American Kennel Club website says the German Wirehaired Pointer breed has a life expectancy of 14-16 years. And Gundog Journal says they reach maturity at about 2 years. So 14 months does, in fact, qualify as a "puppy". So she's full of shit on that point.
And the "working dog" defense is maybe an even worse argument. She's implying that a dog that doesn't do its job deserves to die. I mean, that's very Republican of her; no doubt she feels the same about people (or at least some people).
I hope Cricket is the nail in the coffin of her career. And once she's out of a job, well...maybe she'll re-think her stance on the consequences of job failure.
And the "working dog" defense is maybe an even worse argument. She's implying that a dog that doesn't do its job deserves to die. I mean, that's very Republican of her; no doubt she feels the same about people (or at least some people).
I hope Cricket is the nail in the coffin of her career. And once she's out of a job, well...maybe she'll re-think her stance on the consequences of job failure.
I like your optimism... but she's more likely going to get a pundit gig complaining how the 'mainstream media' ruined her life.
View: https://youtu.be/fZmJ2xRcPIY?si=1rhh-F-Ynhzri_al
Mika shares her own identical story of her puppy attacking chickens on her farm and relating the vast difference in response she had to Noem, citing cruelty vs understanding.
**A bit of warning as Mika does share a rather detailed retelling of the attack in gruesome detail.
in the Odyssey, Odysseus' dog Argos waits for him all the time he was out sieging Troy AND all the time Odysseus was trying to get back home, and he is super depressed cause his master is not home; upon seeing Odysseus the dog can only wag his tail one last time and die, cause he is old and sick
this is, of course, a myth, but it shows that the idea of a dog being the faithful companion of a man, and part of the family, is not new
Yeah, there's a lot of people here who really need to stop getting their history lessons from social media. Even tiktok, as much as some people at this site desperately want to say otherwise, is not immune from the algorithm spreading nonsense.
On top of my own prior research that has led me to encounter plenty of historical evidence of people treating pets (especially dogs) as more than just work animals long before the past half century, a fucking google search almost immediately turns up a treasure trove of ancient people talking about their dogs in ways that we do today.
Found on a tomb made for a family dog
Someone from 2000+ years ago referring to their dog as a furbaby
I mean, fuck. One of the most harrowing accounts of the great depression I grew up with was an elderly neighbor talking about the time he encountered a family that had to butcher and cook the family house dog because it was literally that or starving.
Yep, if anything people have been WAY crazier about the lives of their pets than they are today.
Diodorus is quoted observing the Egyptians:
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thaye...lls,perpetrator most cruelly, sometimes doing