Reaching for an example of her unflinching preparedness to do anything "difficult, messy and ugly" if it needs to be done, Kristi Noem landed on a chilling example: the time she killed her pet dog, Cricket, in an execution-style gravel pit slaying. read more
It's legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf's mouth shut and paraded the animal around a local bar, taking photos to commemorate the event. Finally, he killed the wolf.
A new study might point to the first signs of a frightening public health scenario: Researchers found two recent cases of prion disease -- universally fatal ailments caused by rogue proteins -- that could have been caused by the victims eating contaminated deer meat. read more
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Headline-grabbing billionaire Elon Musk is clashing with a Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X, the social media platform Musk bought when it was Twitter.
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We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.
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#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday
No, that is not how normal people do it on the farm. Normal people on a farm are not cruel. They do not kill pointlessly. They are not wasteful.