I guess I should not be surprised that people are outraged that Kristi Noem shot her dog, but man it's really weird to see people say stuff like "it would have been more humane to take it to a vet and have it put down properly"
Uhhh I don't know if you know this, but it's 100% normal and more humane to shoot the dog than to take it to a vet to have them put down. This is how almost everyone who doesn't live in a city handles these situations. My own childhood dog was old and sick -- dad took him to the woods, tied to a tree, shot him, and buried him.
People have this fantasy that pumping harmful chemicals into animals is more humane because they don't like gore. But it's not more humane. It causes fear and stress and pain. It's well known that a firing squad is the most instant and reliable execution method but Americans for some unknown reason think it's too barbaric, but watching someone scream and writhe and gasp for several minutes is not? So weird.
