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The secured part. I have never had a dog that couldn't get out if it wanted to. How would you secure a farm dog?

John Smith wrote on May 1^st, 2024 at 9:21pm:


As in, not physically capable of escaping?

How do you do that with a farm dog?

John Smith wrote on May 1^st, 2024 at 9:48pm:


Around the entire farm?

freediver wrote on May 1^st, 2024 at 11:17am:



A PUPPY that isn;t trained properly exhibits all sorts of behaviours that are unbecoming to a seasoned dog.

This is what training is for.

And if you're stupid enough to take an untrained puppy you've recently been made aware was not behaving as you would want unrestrained into a farm full of chickens, then you're a colossal idiot.

And then, going on to brag about it?

Sure. Vote for that one.

All ethics aside, the woman is  moron.

freediver wrote on May 1^st, 2024 at 9:29pm:



On a neighbors property with chickens roaming? With an untrained puppy?

I dunno, a leash?

freediver wrote on May 2^nd, 2024 at 8:51am:



What a load of horseshit. Puppies do all sorts of poo. That;s why they're supposed to be on leads. You don't let an untrained dog loose around livestock. Everyone who knows anything about dogs knows this.

As for the Trump nonsense, you've just evidenced that that only appeals to morons.

Dangerous dog my arse. Exuberant puppy. That is all.

She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.

By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.

Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.

Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.

When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.

Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.

“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”

Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goa...

Mebbe she shoulda waited until the mutt started biting kiddies and call a team of social workers at that point and also ask the elders of the dog community to teach Cricket the lore of her ancestors.
Or somefin'.