{"id":7063,"date":"2025-07-02T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:45:09","slug":"ich-hasste-diesen-hund-die-geschichte-von-kristi-noem-und-der-erschiessung-von-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/ich-hasste-diesen-hund-die-geschichte-von-kristi-noem-und-der-erschiessung-von-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Hated That Dog\u201d \u2013 The Story of Kristi Noem and the Shooting of Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a story that reads like something from a dark Southern novel \u2013 yet it comes from the pen of a politician who presents herself as an \u201cunshakable patriot\u201d and, until recently, was considered a strong contender for Donald Trump\u2019s vice-presidential pick. In her book No Going Back, published in 2024, Kristi Noem recounts with startling coldness how she shot her 14-month-old hunting dog Cricket. The incident, originally intended as an anecdote about \u201ctough decisions on the farm,\u201d quickly escalated into a political scandal of international proportions. According to Noem\u2019s account, Cricket lost control during a pheasant hunt, killed several chickens, chased another animal, and bit her. For the then-governor of South Dakota, that was apparently reason enough to lead the dog to a nearby gravel pit and shoot it \u2013 and later to write: \u201cI hated that dog.\u201d Not only the act itself, but also the laconic language with which she describes it, left many readers stunned. Even more disturbing: In the same passage, Noem says that immediately afterward, she also killed a goat that had supposedly been bothering her children. The goat survived the first shot, so she reloaded and shot again. Location of the execution: the same gravel pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reactions to this episode were fierce. Human rights advocates, animal welfare organizations, and even conservative allies expressed outrage. On social media, hashtags like #CricketDeservedBetter and #NoemTheExecutioner began trending. Stephen Colbert dedicated an entire late-night segment to the case, slyly noting that you could say many things about Trump\u2019s potential VP pick \u2013 but being a dog lover wasn\u2019t one of them. Seth Meyers and John Oliver also featured the story in their shows. The political fallout was significant: Noem\u2019s standing in Trump\u2019s inner circle was weakened, and her ambitions for the vice presidency were at least temporarily derailed. Noem herself defended her actions \u2013 unconvincingly \u2013 by referencing rural realities. On X (formerly Twitter), she wrote: \u201cI can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story about Cricket. We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm.\u201d But those very sentences caused many to question whether remorse was truly at play \u2013 or whether this was instead a calculated provocation by a politician who prefers projecting toughness over compassion. Her attempt to turn the episode into political capital by portraying herself as a pragmatic farm woman struck many as a chilling miscalculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What weighed most heavily, however, was that Noem had chosen to make the story public \u2013 not as an admission of remorse, but as an example of leadership. What was meant as image management became a moral unmasking. In a political landscape where image is everything, this moment reminded people that some stories are better left untold \u2013 or at least told with a different tone. The killing of a young, possibly misdirected dog \u2013 and the demonstrative emotional coldness with which it was described \u2013 left behind an image of Kristi Noem that will be hard to repair. One that evokes neither sympathy nor respect, but above all raises a question: Who shoots an animal \u2013 and then proudly calls it \u201cleadership\u201d? Noem\u2019s case is a cautionary tale about political self-exposure. Her story about Cricket was meant to symbolize strength \u2013 it became a symbol of coldness, loss of control, and a political instinct that no longer distinguishes between farm life and public office. The gravel pit in South Dakota is no longer just a place \u2013 it is a symbol of what remains when humanity is lost in the pursuit of power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"dark-america,topstory,trump-s-world\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1751453001\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"\u201eIch hasste diesen Hund\u201c \u2013 Die Geschichte von Kristi Noem und der Erschie\u00dfung von Cricket\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es ist eine Geschichte, die klingt wie aus einem d\u00fcsteren S\u00fcdstaatenroman \u2013 doch sie stammt aus der Feder einer Politikerin, die sich selbst als \u201eunersch\u00fctterliche Patriotin\u201c inszeniert und bis vor Kurzem als aussichtsreiche Vizepr\u00e4sidentschaftskandidatin Donald Trumps galt. In ihrem Buch No Going Back, erschienen 2024, erz\u00e4hlt Kristi Noem mit verbl\u00fcffender K\u00e4lte, wie sie ihre 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,7,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dark-america","category-topstory","category-trump-s-world"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Photo-by-ZVG_6_.webp?fit=850%2C508&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Hofmann","author_link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201eIch hasste diesen Hund\u201c \u2013 Die Geschichte von Kristi Noem und der Erschie\u00dfung von Cricket - The Kaizen Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Es ist eine Geschichte, die klingt wie aus einem d\u00fcsteren S\u00fcdstaatenroman \u2013 doch sie stammt aus der Feder einer Politikerin, die sich selbst als \u201eunersch\u00fctterliche Patriotin\u201c inszeniert und bis vor Kurzem als aussichtsreiche Vizepr\u00e4sidentschaftskandidatin Donald Trumps galt. 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