“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote of Cricket in her new memoir, “No Going
Back.” Cricket was smiling in the passenger seat of her truck when she
decided the time had come. When they got home, Noem took Cricket to a
gravel pit and shot her. On the way back from dispatching the dog, Noem saw
the family's goat.
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