got loose and killed a neighbor’s chickens — after which Noem lured the wirehair pointer to a gravel pit and blew its brains out. “I hated that dog,” reads an excerpt obtained by The Guardian.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly recovering after suffering an allergic reaction and being rushed to a ...

“At that moment,” Noem writes, “I realized I had to put her down.” She led Cricket to a gravel pit and killed her. That wasn’t all. Noem writes that her family also owned a “nasty and ...

Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, explained that she then got her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit. “It was not a pleasant job,” she said, “but it had to ...

Noem dragged Cricket to a gravel pit, and shot her dead in front of a startled construction crew. “It was not a pleasant job but it had to be done,” she recounts, “and after it was over ...

Noem said she “hated that dog,” and deemed it “less than worthless” for being unable to properly hunt. So she took her gun, led the dog to a gravel pit, and shot Cricket. Bizarrely ...

But though she ‘dragged him to a gravel pit,’ the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then ‘hurried back ...

In the excerpt, Noem described taking her 14-month-old female dog, Cricket, to a "gravel pit" near her farm and shooting her because it was "less than worthless," "untrainable" and had killed and ...

Noem killed her dog. In the book Noem recalls the time she decided to haul her dog Cricket, “a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” to a gravel pit and fatally shoot her. Cricket’s crime: ...

Instead, after the chicken attack, Noem wrote she took the dog to a gravel pit and shot her. She described hating Cricket, whom she called a “less than worthless” hunting animal. Now ...

Noem reportedly writes that her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, got loose and killed a neighbor’s chickens — after which Noem lured the wirehair pointer to a gravel pit and shot it.