What about the 19% who don't disapprove of Governor Noem's shooting her dog?

[Botany]

Announcing what it called its “Noem Puppy Murder Poll Findings”, New River Strategies, a Democratic firm, said 81% of Americans disapproved of Noem’s decision to shoot Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haired pointer who Noem says ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbour’s chickens, thereby earning a trip to a gravel pit to die.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143232630


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Btw I am not buying her stories about the dog killing chickens or attacking people and from
her story about the dog chasing pheasants when she took it hunting the animal was just
showing “drive” which after training can make for a good hunting dog.🐶

Btw part 2 lots of pointers are not good at retrieving game after it has been shot and that
is why we have retrievers. Sensing a bird, holding a point, flushing the bird after be released
from “the point” and maybe retrieving the bird are complex behaviors that don’t just happen
when you take a puppy including pure bred hunting dogs 🐶 for the first times.

[Aristus]

1. Well, they are members of the "Shoots Things For Fun" party, after all.

n/t

[durablend]

2. They're the "Real 'muricans" they'll tell you

[LakeArenal]

3. They will always be amongst us.

These people also supported separated families. Many children still unaccounted.

[Traildogbob]

4. Not surprised

At all. I live in red hell, WNC. Bear hunters and Coon Hunters. They pay enormous prices for specialized hunting dogs. Very very many live on a chain outside, with bare soil year round. A 50 gallon drum is their shelter. One hunter could own as many as 10+ dogs in a small area, dog shit abounds. Most of those dogs if freed, would attack people or animals.
During training season I have seen so many of those dogs, in the heat of day inside stacked boxes in the bed of trucks.
Not broad brushing all hunters as that type, but enough are, that huge numbers of dogs are not treated well at all.
I had personal contact in my profession with literally hundreds and hundreds of young hunters from all over the mountain regions. Many of these folks I would allow to even pet a dog of mine.
If as some MAGA’s say “ they would vote for Trump if he shot and killed someone at the capital”, don’t for a second think they give a damn about a hot women shooting a dog. That makes her hotter to them. And if she packs those new Texas teeth with smokeless tobacco and spits anywhere she wants, whew, what a babe.

[Johonny]

5. 19 percent is flat Earth polling numbers

You can find 10 to 20 percent thar will agree to anything stupid in a poll. Polling at 19 percent is bad. Why anyone would openly talk about shooting their dog and think that's a good idea, didn’t poll that idea first because it's polling about where anyone would expect it too. Dog killers, not popular. Not a shock.

[Botany]

7. Kind of like this % of Americans who believe that astrology is real.

Unfortunately we have Fox News, Russian misinformation, and hate talk radio, tv, and
social media that is more then ready to take advantage of these “dim bulbs.”

[sop]

6. Who are these people? Only mafiosos take close friends out to gravel pits and put a slug in them. WTF?

It was a happy puppy having too much fun while hunting, for Christ's sake. These assholes never heard of rolled up newspapers?

[Wonder Why]

9. Nah! We mafioso make 'em sleep with the fishes or provide them with cement shoes. Much more sophisticated.

[retread]

12. "...rolled up newspapers?" When you have a dog and it "fails" at something, the rolled up newspaper is for

you to hit yourself upside your head. The "failure" is all yours not the dog's.

[sop]

15. We're talking about the 19%, not Cesar Millan The Dog Whisperer.

For them a rolled up newspaper instead of a shotgun blast is probably the best we can hope for.

[CanonRay]

8. I long ago decided that about 20% of Americans are just totally bat shit crazy.

Do any kind of poll you want, with as ridiculous a notion as you want, and you find that 20%.

[Initech]

14. That 19% is just dialed into the Fox / Heritage / TPUSA universe.

And they're not coming back to reality any time soon, no matter how bad things get.

[obamanut2012]

10. Soke people hate animals -- Trump thinks pets are filthy and disgusting

And doesn't understand why people want them. I worked with someone about ten years ago with the same mindset, and said animals should only be eaten, not pet or loved. She called pets It.

[Polybius]

11. Probably that 19% were bitten by dogs and believe her story that the dog was a menace

As pointed out before, 19% is very low.

[NanaCat]

13. What about them?

They're out there, they've always been out there and they always will.

You deal with them when they cross a line into animal cruelty and stay the F away from them otherwise.

Because, like it or not, it's not against the law to agree with shooting dogs for stupid reasons. They can think it and say it, as long as they don't do it. We don't prosecute people for thought crimes in this country. That sort of lunacy is the province of the Christian church and their hell.