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In reply to the discussion: This is beyond sick. Kristi Noem shot and killed the family's 14-month puppy because it couldn't be trained [View all]slightlv
(3,111 posts)is only proof positive of a bad trainer and/or owner. This goes way beyond that. A puppy and a goat all in the same morning. She must have been feeling her red wheaties that morning... and in front of her kids. If I'd been one of those kids, I'd have reported her to the authorities and then turned myself in for foster care (if not just plain run away). I mean, if she can be that cruel to animals, what in the hell is she like to those kids? She killed their puppy in front of them. She savaged a goat in front of them. If nothing else, she is absolutely showing a psychopathic personality. I wouldn't trust her with any living thing -- especially neither kids nor animals. And with her doing this, it's only one step away from murder, psychologically speaking.
This woman needs to be put down, herself. She's a menace and danger to society. Gods, if I'd been anywhere near, I'd either have ended up dead or bashing her head in when she raised the gun to the dog. You can't train the dog? Give it to someone who'll love it as a pet. You don't just kill what you don't like. I can't handle this. I've rescued too many animals in my lifetime. I'm living now with an enormous dog that no one wanted... month after month she'd be adopted out, only to be brought back in and left at the pound. Is she a handful? Gods, yes... especially with her at 100 lbs+ and me at 90 lbs soaking wet. And both me and hubs in our late 60's and mid 70's. She needs the exuberance of kids, which my grandkids will provide at times. It's almost cruel, I think, to keep her with us old people. But she was almost given up on at the shelter. People gave up on her. We're working with her, day by day. And I found her a "friend" who is nearly as large as she is, and just as exuberant, to have playdates with. That's working with the situation. You just don't kill a living being because they're inconvenient or you personally don't like the animal.
I guess it's too much to hope that karma comes for her in the same way Noem went for the pup. There is nothing worse, in my book, as someone who tortures or kills an innocent creature. May the wrath of all the gods, especially the Old Gods, rain down on them. Wishing Cthulhu on her isn't enough, in my mind. Gee... sorry... can you tell how upset this has me?