cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20120801
The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting.
On the way home from the hunting trip, Noem writes that she stopped to talk to a family. Cricket got out of Noem’s truck and attacked and killed some of the family’s chickens, then bit the governor.
“At that moment,” Noem writes, “I realized I had to put her down.” She led Cricket to a gravel pit and killed her.
She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it has to be done. But backlash was swift against the Republican governor, who just a month ago drew attention and criticism for posting an infomercial-like video about cosmetic dental surgery she received out-of-state.
and then someone on some lemmy instance wrote a long ass comment defending it, and explaining how he killed his own dog too. By suffocating it.
I read that, and while some of the possible implications are concerning, that was a beloved and elderly dog and OP claims they tried to make it painless and less scary than euthanasia. I am iffy on some of the decisions that were made, but the story as told is pretty much the inverse of an annoyed jackass shooting a 14 month old dog because its training was not going well and she “hated” it.
You know whats actually painless? taking them to the vet. where they can be rendered unconscious before stopping their hearts.
not strangling them
Dude saw that part in I Am Legend when Will Smith suffocated his dog and said, “wow, that looked totally painless and peaceful.”