Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., tore into the homeland security secretary at a hearing, saying he will hold up Trump’s nominees until he gets answers from her department.
During a tense public hearing Tuesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation.
And he blasted her for killing her dog, which she had described in her memoir as “untrainable,” as well as a goat. Tillis, of North Carolina, argued that killing the animals reflected bad judgment and compared it to DHS’ fatal shootings of two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis.
Then he senator threatened to block many of Donald Trump’s nominees until he gets answers to questions he has posed to the administration about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Charlotte.
I get that you’re mocking her, but genuinely sometimes, when you’re particularly rural, you do in fact have to shoot a dog.
Where I grew up, there was no animal control. There was no one to call if there were loose animals. Combine that with the fact that it was an area where people would just dump unwanted animals, and we had a real feral dog problem.
When you have dangerous dogs show up a couple of times a month, and your only other option to get rid of them is to try and catch them, load them up in a crate, drive them an hour into town, just to give them to a pound that’s gonna put them down anyway; yeah, sometimes you kinda don’t have much other option but to shoot them.
My dad put down a good few dogs when I was young. It wasn’t something he liked doing. But when you have young kids running around, you can’t just let a bunch of feral dogs run loose.
What should he have done? What was the “correct” decision for him to make?
Edit: Not defending Noam here. Her story about shooting her dog has a lot more wrong with it than simply shooting the dog. She’s a monster.
this wasn’t a feral dog. It was a young dog that she had not trained for hunting, which she took on a hunt and it got anxious so she shot it.
Did you not see the part where I said I wasn’t defending Noam and that what she did wasn’t what I’m describing?
Two things can be true. Noam can be a bad person, and people in rural areas can, unfortunately, sometimes have to put down feral dogs.
Now I’m just curious where you lived that there was no shelter to take unwanted dogs to. That’s what we did and I’m originally from BFE.
I grew up on 150 acres in a very rural part of the Southern US.
This could also be an age thing though. There is now a county animal control and some animal shelters. That wasn’t true in the early 90s.
But the area has grown a bunch since then too. What used to be farmland for ages has started to turn into suburbs and subdivisions. I’m sure what I’ve described is still pretty normative in places that are still underdeveloped.