{"id":5618,"date":"2024-05-05T23:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2024-05-05T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T23:29:09","slug":"how-to-know-when-a-good-dog-has-gone-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=5618","title":{"rendered":"How To Know When a Good Dog Has Gone Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Kristi Noem suggested that President Biden should have euthanized the family dog, as she did. Animal experts said that such an option should be a last resort.<\/p>\n

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Since late last month, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has been the subject of fierce bipartisan attacks for her decision to shoot and kill her family dog, a 14-month-old German wirehaired pointer named Cricket. Ms. Noem has repeatedly defended her actions, which are detailed in her forthcoming memoir, in which she says the dog was \u201caggressive,\u201d \u201cuntrainable\u201d and \u201cdangerous to anyone she came in contact with.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, she suggested that President Biden should have considered<\/a> killing his own dog, Commander, a German shepherd who was banished<\/a> from the White House last year after repeatedly biting Secret Service officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,\u201d Ms. Noem, a Republican, said in an interview on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cSo how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog?\u201d<\/p>\n

Experts said that there were some circumstances in which dogs are so aggressive that they should be euthanized. But euthanasia should be an option of last resort, they said, used only when a dog poses a serious danger and other potential solutions have been ruled out. In the cases of both Cricket and Commander, there were plenty of reasonable, nonlethal approaches available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have lots of tools in our tool belt \u2014 medication, lots of different behavioral interventions as well \u2014 before you get to the step where you\u2019re, like, I can\u2019t handle this dog,\u201d said Erica Feuerbacher, an expert on dog behavior and learning at Virginia Tech. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019d want, is that they\u2019d really value their dog\u2019s life and give their dog its best chance of having a full, long life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian first reported<\/a> on the excerpts from Ms. Noem\u2019s memoir, which is set to be released on Tuesday. In it, she reportedly blames Cricket for ruining a pheasant hunt, killing another family\u2019s chickens and biting, or trying to bite, her.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Kristi Noem suggested that President Biden should have euthanized the family dog, as she did. Animal experts said that such an option should be a last resort.Since late last month, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has been the subject of fierce bipartisan attacks for her decision to shoot and kill her family dog, a 14-month-old German wirehaired pointer named Cricket. Ms. Noem has repeatedly defended her actions, which are detailed in her forthcoming memoir, in which she says the dog was \u201caggressive,\u201d \u201cuntrainable\u201d and \u201cdangerous to anyone she came in contact with.\u201dOn Sunday, she suggested that President Biden should have considered killing his own dog, Commander, a German shepherd who was banished from the White House last year after repeatedly biting Secret Service officers.\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,\u201d Ms. Noem, a Republican, said in an interview on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cSo how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog?\u201dExperts said that there were some circumstances in which dogs are so aggressive that they should be euthanized. But euthanasia should be an option of last resort, they said, used only when a dog poses a serious danger and other potential solutions have been ruled out. In the cases of both Cricket and Commander, there were plenty of reasonable, nonlethal approaches available.\u201cWe have lots of tools in our tool belt \u2014 medication, lots of different behavioral interventions as well \u2014 before you get to the step where you\u2019re, like, I can\u2019t handle this dog,\u201d said Erica Feuerbacher, an expert on dog behavior and learning at Virginia Tech. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019d want, is that they\u2019d really value their dog\u2019s life and give their dog its best chance of having a full, long life.\u201dThe Guardian first reported on the excerpts from Ms. Noem\u2019s memoir, which is set to be released on Tuesday. In it, she reportedly blames Cricket for ruining a pheasant hunt, killing another family\u2019s chickens and biting, or trying to bite, her.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}