She decided to kill the 14-month-old dog she was training to hunt birds when it attacked chickens, an understandable mistake for a young dog IMO, and bit her once when she grabbed it’s collar (no word on how seriously). She killed a goat by shooting it twice because she didn’t like it, calling it mean and smelly. Apparently she’s also recently put down 3 horses for unspecified reasons.
She deliberately included it in her new book “to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything ‘difficult, messy and ugly’ if it simply needs to be done.” When criticized she said, "I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here.”
Sometimes animals do need to be euthanized, but it’s rarely a first choice. Animal lovers and those who hunt with dogs have not been kind in their appraisals of the decisions. It’s just a meme and maybe I don’t need to worry, but her talk about carrying that attitude into politics puts me off.
Finally, Trump is old, unhealthy and there’s fears he’s showing signs of dementia. So this time VP choice might really matter a few years down the road.
She was literally training this puppy to hunt water fowl. She didn’t do the proper job of training her puppy to differentiate between the job of water fowl and chickens and when the time was appropriate, also puppy and still learning.
She’s currently trying and failing to train the dog to kill birds correctly and then just let the dog loose among a whole slew of chickens, a pup that’s been in training to track and kill birds mind you, loose amongst the chickens. Don’t know about you and how much time you’ve had with dogs but they aren’t exactly great with identifying between a duck and a chicken, it’s a bird and it’s been taught to kill birds.
That’s right there is just bad dog ownership there just like I know that when I was raising dogs to help with coyote hunting, you’d better believe that I didn’t bring them to the fucking dog park because they were trained to be aggressive around certain types of animals and I’m not that stupid to just let them loose among things that could be mistaken for the thing I helped teach them to hunt. Again, being a good dog owner.
Now instead of owning up to her mistakes as a shitty animal trainer that didn’t control her own damn dog, she just shot the damn thing for doing what what she was training it to do and buried it. Again, bad fucking dog ownership.
Yeah, she sounds like both a crappy dog owner and a bad person in general. Unfortunately, that means the dog has to die unless someone else, with ability to repair the damage caused, is willing to take it on. Would you let your kid anywhere near a dog that had been trained by that woman?
I mean I have no idea about your hypothetical because I’ve never seen her dog, never interacted with her dog, never seen how that dog’s overall behavior because I don’t know her and she killed her dog because of her own incompetence before anyone could evaluate the dog.
I can tell you this, there are organizations dedicated to re-homing abused and aggressive dogs due to bad owners and they’re still up and running so take that how you will.