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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not’

Woman with earrings on stage at political event
Kristi Noem at CPAC in February. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

The South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Kristi Noem asked the American public to consider having to “make a choice between your children or a dangerous animal”, as she again defended her killing of a 14-month-old dog.

“I would ask everybody in the country to put themselves in that situation,” Noem told CBS’s Face the Nation about her decision to shoot the dog, named Cricket, after the animal ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.

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