Michael Knowles: Kristi Noem “Did Nothing Wrong”

“Yes, it was politically dumb for Noem to admit this. Yes, her political calculation misfired. I’m mixing metaphors. You get the point. But the third point is, Noem didn’t do anything wrong. You might say it wasn’t advisable. You might say there were better things she could have done.

“She could have given the dog up for adoption. She could have tried to train the dog. She could — there is nothing wrong with a human being humanely killing an animal. There’s nothing wrong. Many of you are eating meat right now. Very few people live on farms anymore.

“Maybe if you live in the city, you take your puppy, you take your little cat in a stroller down the sidewalk. I’m not joking. I have friends who’ve done this in the city. They’ll put their animal in a stroller so that the poor little paws of the animal don’t touch the dirty sidewalk.

“And then you’ll go and you’ll take them to a doctor and you’ll pay thousands of dollars to treat the animal for whatever ailment or to try to train the animal psychologically, and sometimes that doesn’t work. And then you’ll pay even more money to euthanize it. That doesn’t happen in the country. OK? That doesn’t happen on farms.

“And sometimes, if a dog is threatening people and if a dog is destroying other people’s property, sometimes you gotta put the dog down like Old Yeller. It would be one thing if Kristi Noem were torturing this dog like a serial killer or something. That would be wrong.

“It’s wrong to mistreat animals, not because the animals have any rights — animals don’t have a rational soul. But there’s nothing wrong, intrinsically, with humanely putting down a farm dog. A bullet to the head is about as humane away as you can put down any animal.” – Daily Wire host Michael Knowles.