Republicans Slam Kristi Noem for Killing a Puppy
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Republicans slammed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on social media on Friday after she reportedly wrote in her new book, which is set to be published next month, that she fatally shot her 14-month old dog Cricket after realizing it was "untrainable."British newspaper The Guardian published an excerpt of Noem's book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward on Friday in which the governor shared an account of shooting the dog, which she wrote had...

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