over Kristi Noem's story about killing the dog. You'd think she'd dragged a puppy out of a pet shop and whacked it.
Part of my growing up was in farm and ranch country, and it was simple: a dog that started attacking livestock was put down. Period. A hunting dog that wouldn't/couldn't hunt might well become just a pet or be given to a new home where that's what he'd be, but if it started killing chickens or some other livestock...
I have no idea if she wants to be Veep or not, and bringing this up might well be because, if she were picked, you know the story would come out so she took care of that now.
Reminds me of Rush Limbaugh once having fits because of a program to cull feral cats somewhere, because he couldn't seem to get it through his head that a feral cat is not like his pet.
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Yup. Farm grown here.
Animal causing problems? Take care of it.
City folk just don't grok what rural living is all about. They outsource pretty much every facet of their lives to other people. To them, "let the experts handle it" is not just for rocket science and brain surgery, it's for everything from growing their food to raising their kids and everything in between.
My Boykin would jump out of the blind when ducks were coming into the decoys, did I shoot her? Hell no I worked with her till she didn't do it again. When a turkey was getting in range she would break & chase the turkey, did I shoot her,no we worked on it till she didn't do it again. What she did was wrong, writing about it was stupid. She evidently sucks as a dog trainer & probably a person too. I won't vote for her for anything.
To equate bird hunting to ranch life takes some doing. Your recreational dog bares resemblance to the multiple avenues of farm life only in that both involve animals.
It is veritable fact that occasionally an individual animal must be put down. Woe that such animal should run off to join or start a feral dog pack. That happens all to often.
Yes, it was stupid of Noem to write about it. A sympathetic audience, i. e. ranchers, are but a small fraction of the national audience. Too, the vindictive media would rip her to shreds, or at least give the story legs as a source of continual derision.
Her dog went to killing, dropping,grab,kill,drop,her neighbors chickens. She Had to kill the damn thing. It wasn't Just not hunting.
Hell,she's said stuff that turned me off, I'm by far not a fanboi of hers,but I'm a fair person. And people Already Knew about it. It's going to get out. She did the right thing killing it. Did the right thing owning it. I like her better now.
I sent a dog to the county pound to be put down since it had bit me. It was an adult chow and had a Jekyll/Hide mean streak. If I could not control it, there was no point to exposing others to it.
Anyway, shooting a violent animal bad, but a president raping his daughter in the shower and homos molesting children okay. Such is the mind of the left.
Agree with you A Pinochet.
Well stated.
I've stayed out of those discussions for those reasons.
Rush was against feral cat whacking>>>>>
I don't recall that
I fully sympathize with what Noem had to do. Not a farm boy, but have some experience, and a number of farm friends.
BUT... the lack of political awareness is disturbing.
I was driving at the time and not paying too much attention, it was a couple of years before Rush died. He was really upset about it.
As to Noem's political awareness, she may not be interested in national office. And the people who voted for her will generally understand it.
She supported, encouraged, and signed a law into effect that destroyed the first amendment in SC relative to criticism about Israel ( or whateverthem deemtobe 'antisemitic.' THAT is what everyone should be focused on, not a dead dog.
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