Republicans have a dog-killing problem. Just a few short months after Kristi Noem’s graphic tale about shooting her 14-month-old puppy in the head hit bookshelves as part of her panned autobiography,

Former colleagues told the Guardian that Kevin Roberts, who is now the president of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, described killing a neighbor's pit bull around 2004. Roberts has denied killing the dog.

The architect of the Project 2025 manifesto for remaking the federal government to serve Donald Trump allegedly told colleagues that he killed a neighbor's dog with a shovel because it was a nuisance.