Kristi Noem once again defended her decision to shoot and kill one of her hunting dogs in a recent podcast interview with a New York Post columnist.

For more than a year now, the former South Dakota governor has faced criticism for putting down her dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, which she described in her 2024 memoir as having an "aggressive personality" and being "untrainable."

Noem told New York Post columnist Miranda Devine during an hour-long interview released Sept. 17 that the anecdote had already been used against her in political campaigns when she chose to include it in her book.

"People in the state knew it. They had tried to attack me with it," she said. "I decided to tell the truth of the story in the book because I wanted people to know that you have ha

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