There is simply no way she is going to get out of this. Even lots of Republicans love their dogs and wouldn’t shoot a puppy.
“I would ask everybody in the country to put themselves in that situation,” Noem told CBS’s Face the Nation about her decision to shoot the dog, named Cricket, after the animal ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
Okay. I’m putting myself in that situation.
In that situation, I’d either get someone to properly train the dog or give it up to a rescuer and I would compensate the neighbor.