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 then took Cricket to a gravel pit and shot her ... in February she was one of at least half a dozen contenders on his ...

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 ...

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 ...

a 14-month-old wirehair pointer named Cricket, in a gravel pit because the dog was “untrainable” and “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with.” Noem has defended her actions and ...

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

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.” ...