Who is Cristi Noem?

Cristi Noem’s name is circulating in print and social media for good or bad reasons. But who is Cristi Noem? Why did she kill her dog?

Cristi is the governor of South Dakota of the Republican party, she is considered a strong candidate for Vice President of Donald Trump for the upcoming Presidential Elections in 2024. She was the first female governor of South Dakota when she was elected for the first time in 2018 and then again in 2022.

Why did she kill her dog?

Born and raised in South Dakota Cristi grew up with farm life and animals. The dog killing story came from her yet-to-publish memoir ‘No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward‘. She stated that she killed her dog Cricket which was involved in an incident where the dog killed the chickens of a neighbor farmer, so I had to make the bad decision of killing the dog, the dog was untrainable and had aggressive behavior,

Online Critisicim

She received severe backlash online for her grave act of violence. People are calling her a monster and puppy killer. So she wrote on X(Twitter) ‘We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.’ she said ‘I hated that dog’ She killed a goat as well in the same manner a few years ago, describing it as nasty and disgusting dog.