Cricket was a 14 month old wirehaired pointer. In dog years he was just 7 years old when Kristi Noem shot him because he was "untrainable".
I know what you're asking yourself... the same thing I did when I heard this: "I wonder how nice Kristi's hair looked that day?" Did she wear tight Levi jeans and her signature shopping mall cowboy hat? What kind of perfume did she have so graciously bathed upon her milky silky manneguin-like skin?
Ah but there's more to Kristi's Walton farm days memoir... That same day she shot a goat for "behaving badly". Her aim was off, and the goat suffered just long enough for sicko Kristi to reload her gun and finish him off in a gravel pit..
Horror stories have something in common with Kristi Noem's life on a farm, they involve a bloody psychopath and defenseless victims.
You know, like what we've been witnessing on the nightly news this past year!
I'm reminded of a sad story my Mother told me many times about her life on a farm in Maine. One day their beloved family Golden Retriever "Jip" got into a tussle with a porcupine. He had several sharp porcupine needles embedded into his head that were digging in deeper. My Grandmother, a widow, told my Mother's brother to take Jip out behind the barn and put him out of his misery.
Why am I sharing this awful story? There was a remarkable difference in the effect this "humane" act of "kindness" had on my Uncle. She said, he came back crying and yelled at my Grandmother "never ask me to do that again".
My Mother told me "it changed him". My Mother said he became the kindest man but he was haunted by the act of killing a loved animal. This is what a person with conscience and empathy suffer from having to do such a thing.
My Uncle didn't live long and suffered many pains in his lifetime. But, I feel the pain of that day burned like an acid into his heart, his Karma.
This is not what Kristi Noem portrayed as the effect she had after killing a pet. She says it helped her "make tough decisions". That is a statement only made by a sick soul with nothing even resembling a conscience.
Myself, and a lot of other people see Kristi for what she is. A psychopathic murderer. Having Trump place her in charge of our "defense" is beyond Unconscionable. And as predicted Kristi's orders given to ICE goons proved to be indefensible. Maybe that was Trump's intention, to make his ICE force indefensible?. In that case "gun dumb" Noem was perfect for the job.
But, alas patty-cake Kristi's misspending 70 million dollars on a luxury jet, 220 million in a pocket-deal to a "media company" to create propaganda with Kristi riding horses, talking about "patriotism" and asking people of other ethnicities to "turn themselves in" and an alleged affair caught up with her. She was making Trump look bad... get it, she was making him look bad for these offenses... not THE MURDER OF MORE THAN 50 PEOPLE AT THE HANDS OF ICE MONSTERS!
There's no question why Kristi Noem was nicknamed "Ice Barbie". And, and no doubt he'll appoint another psychopathic murderer in her place.