Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal

Dog lover' South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was extremely dangerous' but failed to mention slowly killing a goat

Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota whose chance of being Donald Trump's presidential running mate was widely deemed over after she published a description of shooting dead a dog and a goat, claimed reports of the story were fake news" but also that the dog in question, Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, was extremely dangerous" and deserved her fate.

You know how the fake news works," Noem told Fox News. They leave out some or most of the facts of a story, they put the worst spin on it. And that's what's happened in this case.