Kristi Noem (R ... 14-month-old “Cricket,” a wirehaired pointer, during a hunting trip. Noem shot the dog after taking it on a pheasant hunt. She writes that she had taken Cricket on the ...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem ... note which stated: "Noem's description of why she shot Cricket has morphed. Her book describes the dog as untrainable for pheasant hunting + killed chickens.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem ... the Guardian reported that Noem wrote she shot dead Cricket, a 14-month-old dog she had intended to train for hunting pheasant, after the canine ruined ...

Noem’s new book includes a story of how she put down her 14-month-old puppy due to the dog killing a local family’s chickens after a pheasant hunting trip and biting her when she tried to stop it.