When Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor being vetted as a candidate for Donald Trump’s vice-president, admitted in her memoir to having shot and killed her 14-month-old pet, I’ve to confess I believed it was a play. She was simply testing the waters: how a lot may she insult human decency with out making a dent in her numbers? Because the battle rages on, I’m coming to simply accept that the benighted wire-haired pointer did, for a short while, exist, and was executed for an actual crime: rooster killing. It appears a tiny bit unfair, given the 2 centuries of wire-haired pointer breeding which have gone into creating precisely this fixation with upland (which is to say, non-waterfowl) fowl work. However that’s precisely what you’d count on a liberal to say. Subsequent I’ll be on concerning the dying penalty.
Digging in, Noem has gone on to say that not solely was she proper to execute her pointer, but additionally that Joe Biden has been remiss in pardoning Main and Commander, each German shepherds inveterately hostile to secret service brokers. Commander, with a cost sheet of 24 biting incidents, ought to have been put down ages in the past, in response to Noem. He’s not on the White Home, although historical past doesn’t relate his new deal with. Main, in the meantime, was despatched to stay with buddies in Delaware after a biting incident involving a Nationwide Park worker. No excuses for that – public servants ought to have the ability to go about their duties bite-free – however to have a factor for guys in parks is much less dangerous, I’d contend, than having an aversive concern response to armed secret service brokers once you’re the canine of the US president. It’s attainable, in fact, that each canines have been destroyed – and “gone to stay with buddies in Delaware” is what they are saying to Joe Biden once they imply “gone to stay on a farm”.
It could have made way more sense for Biden to have an Irish doodle (amiable, plus a nod to his roots) quite than successive guard canines with a factor for attacking guards. Poor easy creatures, educated past their understanding. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes – who guards the guards, they heard, and responded with a loyal: “Me – I’ll custodian the hell out of them, with biting.” But it surely’s only a quirk of human nature that the center desires what it desires on the subject of canines.