pheasant

The organisation said that was because gamekeepers are trying to protect their grouse, pheasants and partridge - and the profits they bring.

“I’m of an age where my shotgun was in my car so I could pheasant hunt after football practice,” said Walz, explaining why he changed his views on gun control.

Noem describes taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs to train her, details of which were first reported by the Guardian.

In it, she reportedly blames Cricket for ruining a pheasant hunt, killing another family’s chickens and biting, or trying to bite, her.

Instead, Cricket chased the pheasants, attacked a family’s chickens during a stop on the way home and then “whipped around to bite me,” she wrote.