Farmer Boss on Noem’s Puppy-Killing Excuse: That’s Cow Dung!

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem reacted to outrage over her revelation that she shot her family’s “hated” 14-month-old dog dead by insisting that executing animals is just an unfortunate reality of farm life.

But the leader of the farmers union in her own state says that’s a steaming pile of cow pies.

“This is not a common thing at all,” South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke, a self-described “working...