Noem wrote in "No Going Back" that she killed her dog because of its "aggressive personality" and called the dog "untrainable," according to The Guardian. She wrote that the dog, named Cricket ...

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is in Codington County about 187 miles northeast of the state's capital Pierre ...

However, Noem included in the memoir a 20-year-old anecdote where she described how she killed the family's 14-month-old hunting dog in training named Cricket who disrupted a pheasant hunt and ...

Kristi Noem was in President-elect Donald Trump’s doghouse after she crowed in a memoir published last year about butchering a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket. Despite his well ...

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited Western North Carolina on Feb. 8, reiterating similar ...

Noem, who became infamous for revealing in her memoir that she had once shot her family dog Cricket because it was badly behaved, faced questions from senators on Friday at her confirmation ...

But those aspirations disappeared after Noem revealed in her book that she shot her dog Cricket. She also failed to answer questions about claiming to meet North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un.

Will the ghost of Cricket — the 14-month old German wirehaired ... When it comes to politics, I never sell Noem short. As for running a 260,000-employee, multi-agency department with a mind ...

2024 Noem responded to the criticisms on X for what she called a necessary decision, saying that “Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did.” ...