so true !!!

except for missing on the goat kill and making the poor thing suffer while onlookers watched horrified.

Justifying killing a non injured dog will never fly.

She's a c***!

I'm wondering if you can shoot her at that point.

Bitch kills an innocent dog, she might be crazy enough to kill me..why take the chance so might as well fire first.

well congrats. i was just pointing out that farmers aren't calling the vet to put down animals (lol) which apparently you find outrageous.

I’m on team ‘don’t kill a 14 month old dog cuz you sucked at training it’ but I’m willing to accept I’m not someone who lives on a farm and there are different rules I probably can’t ever embrace

One thing I know to be absolutely certain is that no matter where you stand if you’re on a shortlist to be the running mate of a president who already struggles with getting people who aren’t in his base, maybe don’t mention or brag that you have the will to shoot a puppy

dogs are not farm animals.

You know I take it back, there really isn’t a defense here. If you’re sadistic enough to think killing a puppy cuz you sucked at training it makes you electable and your books should be purchased cuz you’re politically incorrect or something, man. Amazing the level of unforced errors MAGA is willing to do to themselves to trip over their dicks in a rush to remind the world you’re a shitty human being

in all seriousness, that's just kind of how things are done though, if a dog showed itself to be problematic after training, you'd put it down and try again

i seriously doubt she's bad at dog training, you don't undertake training a dog for bird hunting lightly

it's also key to the story that her dog just started killing all the neighbors chickens - if that were the situation in the suburbs and it wasn't a one off, animal control would have put the dog down as well


what she did is really no different than how dogs were used historically - which is why in a span of a few thousand years we were able to go from vicious beast to a friendly companion

even some of the breeds which still retain most of the wolf traits are a fraction of the size and power of a wolf




for her it was clearly a work dog, not a pet, she got the dog to go hunting with, that didn't pan out and the dog showed itself not suitable as a pet either

had she taken the dog to shelter, it would have stayed in a kennel for a while hoping for an adoption but over 90% of animals taken to shelters are eventually put down anyway

so i think there's a big disconnect between people who acquire dogs as pets and companions, who view them primarily as companions and would have brought in an untrainable and violent dog to the shelter where they'd be killed anyway

kind of like how many people think it's morally wrong to hunt, but still eat meat



i honestly think a lot of context is missing and she chose brevity & was speaking from a place of "obviously i'd invested hundreds of hours training her and it wasn't working out" and pretty sure the "killing my neighbors chickens and refusing to listen" was one of many examples of the dog being violent

I get all that (I mean I don’t but conceptually I kinda do), but who is your audience here? Even if the defense is this is normal in the farmland the overwhelming majority of non farmland people won’t see it that way, and a lot of that are the people in swing states you as Trump’s running mate are supposed to be courting instead of repulsing with stories they can’t and won’t ever relate to

A completely unforced error by an idiot who has no idea they’re probably supposed to hide this **** even if they, and other farmers, see nothing wrong with this that probably cost her the spot on the ticket

oh no doubt she was a complete ffing moron to put it like that in a book and even an even bigger idiot to not fully defend/explain how it got to that point


but i promise you, if you're at a redneck bar and said that story you'd just get a bunch of head nods where people would say that's a shame but had to be done and i could see how that could get her some south dakota credentials amongst the men there who may worry as a woman she may not be willing to make the tough decisions

I played in a golf tournament a couple years ago and got paired up with a couple of farmers. One of them mentioned how he recently had to put a horse down. Another guy in our group asked how expensive that is. One of the farmers said about 10 cents.

If you guys really wanna be outraged at shooting a horse to put it down read "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed.

Horses live in complete pain for life if they break a leg. It's humane to put them down.

That dog was just untrained. You don't kill dogs because they don't do what you want.

She's a kunt, no doubt about it.

Strayed on Trump’s short list too?

100% agreed. And my point this whole time has been that putting horses down with a gun is completely normal. One poster has been struggling with this.

Honestly I have no idea what point you are trying to make. In the book Cheryl, and her brother? (it's been a while) were trying to put this horse down (they had no money) and kept "missing" (i.e. they were shooting the horse but not in the proper spot). It was gut wrenching.

The point I’m trying to make is even if there’s a segment of the population for whom this is normal behavior there’s a bigger segment repulsed by it

If you’re trying to get nationwide appeal for political purposes maybe keep this **** to yourself when you’re writing your book

i mean i think most people view it as if their dog refused to listen as their own dogs did refuse to listen during the training process and think "wtf she just gave up"

she had taken him hunting though, which signified he had already undergone immense training

if you were to were buy a hunting dog breed and instead of training him yourself dropped him off at a kennel which specializes in those things, the program is typically 3 months long and cost thousands of dollars to be done

so this isn't your dog which you spend maybe 15-45 minutes a day for a few weeks training to sit and lay down and roll over as a puppy but rather a dog with a PhD education at a finishing school

this is a dog that had been trained for hundreds of hours and still wouldn't listen to basic commands


also i kind of left it without fully explaining but the reason for showing the wolf+huskie image was that to show that wolf sized breeds are extremely rare specifically because putting down troublesome dogs is the norm


not even accounting for modern breeds where we have a specific shape/size/color in mind but I'm talking cave man days

the larger and fiercer dogs were put down at a much higher clip

so much so that ancient domestic breeds which have since gone wild again never regained their old wolf size

the dingo's fossil remains go only as far back as 3,500 years, they can't be found before that time, it's because some humans who went to Australia brought their dogs with them, already by that time, we'd already shriveled it down significantly in size just through killing off the bigger and more dangerous ones

and they're still fierce enough to eat your baby


had she written that book 100 years ago nobody would have batted an eye, had she written that 1,000 years ago people would have criticized her for not putting it down sooner

100% agree, she was really stupid

That's fine. I was just mentioning an aside so I didn't expect snark. And it's a good book. The movie took some liberties.

FYI I give zero shits about this governor or Trump so any motivations or agendas don't move me one bit.

Oh I’m not casting aspersions at all. Just looking at this from a purely political context

everyone's probably seen the stuff about how trump has been falling asleep in the courtroom, but now many ppl are saying that in the process he's also been ripping some nasty ones (maybe shitting his pants??), and that his lawyers are struggling to deal with the smell. big if true, i want to believe, etc

The Dems would really win this election incredibly easy if they nominated a decent candidate instead of a 100 year old genocide supporter.

But then again they wouldn't be the Dems if they didn't nominate the worst possible candidate. Truly a party that has learned nothing from 2016.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/...ble-news-poll/


lol cable news, lol oldz


very kool stuff, man


why they, for example, want to ban tiktok


lmao @ the failing nyt


why they, for example, want to ban tiktok


half these pieces of **** are like yeah it's a genocide but idc / i like it. the woat oat generation

and yet here you sit doing nothing.

do you even cement bro? get out there and chain yourself to a cement block in a tree or you are no better than anybody else.

you're just lazy old genocid-72off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqaW1LrMTY


secret base jumping into the political realm it seems. new series about 3rd party usa#1 political candidates, starting from ross perot in the 90s. pretty good start. 2nd ep looks like it'll be about jesse "the mind" ventura