Kristi Noem: Smile if You Needlessly Killed Your Dog

Noem killed her dog.
In the book Noem recalls the time she decided to haul her dog Cricket, “a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” to a gravel pit and fatally shoot her. Cricket’s crime: she had an “aggressive personality” and after Noem attempted to train her to hunt pheasant she attacked some chickens instead.