Hillary Clinton says 'don't vote for anyone you wouldn't trust with your dog' as she trolls South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem who revealed she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy Cricket

Hillary Clinton trolled South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Monday, after she admitted in her forthcoming book that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket. 

Clinton had tweeted 'Don't vote for anyone you wouldn't trust with your dog,' in February 2021.

Back then the message was aimed at Republican Sen. Ted Cruz - who left the family poodle Snowflake at home while he vacationed in Cancun amid a dangerous Texas winter storm.  

'Still true,' Clinton posted to X Monday, a clear jab a Noem over her decision to murder Cricket. 

Noem's new book, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, detailed how she gunned down the dog and a male goat in an effort to show she's capable of dealing with anything that's 'difficult, messy and ugly.' 

Hillary Clinton (left) trolled South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (right) Monday, after she admitted in her forthcoming book that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, receiving widespread criticism for not rehoming the young pooch instead 

Clinton originally wrote, 'Don't vote for anyone you wouldn't trust with your dog' after Republican Sen. Ted Cruz left his dog Snowflake home in Texas during a major winter storm - on Monday she applied the same motto to Noem 

But she clearly underestimated the fallout. 

'She's DOA,' one Trump ally told The Hill, suggesting she had tanked her chances of becoming former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate. 

'Any time you have to respond more than once to a story, it's not good,' the source added. 

Another Republican strategist reiterated that point. 

'She's basically taken herself out of the running to be VP,' the strategist told the newspaper. 

In the book, the governor writes that she shot Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer at the gravel pit on her family property, moments before her children came home from school. 

The dog, Noem claimed, had an 'aggressive personality' that couldn't be tamed - as evidenced by the fact that Cricket ruined a pheasant hunt for being 'out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.' 

Cricket was a wirehaired pointer (pictured) who had an 'aggressive personality,' Noem claimed and ate a number of chickens that belonged to a local family like 'a trained assassin' before turning aruond and biting her 

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is photographed with a different dog that she owned, Hazel, a Vizsla

A Facebook picture shows South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem with a gun. In her forthcoming book she writes about Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer, that Noem shot at the gravel pit on her family property, moments before her children came home from school

Additionally when the South Dakota governor took Cricket with her to meet a local family the dog started killing the family's chickens like 'a trained assassin.'

According to a book excerpt obtained by the Guardian, Cricket 'grabbed one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.'  

When Noem finally grabbed the dog she wrote that Cricket 'whipped around to bite me.'

Cricket was 'the picture of pure joy.' Meanwhile the chickens' owner wept.

Noem said she wrote a check 'for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime.' 

'I hated that dog,' Noem wrote, believing the 14-month-old pooch to be 'untrainable,' 'dangerous to anyone she came in contact with' and 'less than worthless ... as a hunting dog.' 

So she decided to kill Cricket.

'At that moment,' the governor wrote. 'I realized I had to put her down.' 

'It was not a pleasant job,' Noem said, 'but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.' 

Noem decided to off the family goat as well because he was 'nasty and mean,' as he remained uncastrated and smelled 'disgusting, musky [and] rancid' and 'loved to chase' the governor's children.

She 'dragged him to the gravel pit' as well, but the goat jumped as she tried to shoot him, leaving him briefly alive.

Noem said she had to go back to her truck and retrieve another shell and then 'hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down.' 

Her actions were witnessed, she said, by a construction crew working nearby.

Moments later, the bus dropped off her kids. 

'Kennedy looked around confused,' Noem recalled of her daughter, who asked, 'Hey where's Cricket?' 

Noem then admitted, 'I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn't tell the story here.' 

Since the public outcry over her treatment of Cricket, Noem has been forced to respond multiple times. 

On Friday Noem wrote on X, '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,' she said. 

'If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that'll have the media gasping, preorder "No Going Back,"' the governor added. 

On Sunday in a post on X, Noem described Cricket as a 'working dog' though admitted 'I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story.' 

She then argued she had a right to shoot him. 

'The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down. Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did,' she wrote.