'Weekend Update': Kristi Noem's Other Dog Defends 'Great' Owner Against 'Problem' Pooch
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The canine (played by Marcello Hernández) went to bat for the South Dakota governor as he claimed that the animal-killing story is "media spin."
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s other dog (played by “SNL” cast member Marcello Hernández) took to “Weekend Update” to defend his “great” owner after a report on a dog-killing story in her upcoming memoir sparked backlash.
Noem — who has reportedly been abandoned as a potential running mate pick for former President Donald Trump — has gone to bat for her move to shoot and kill her 14-month-old canine Cricket, one of her hunting dogs that she described as “aggressive” and “untrainable.”
Hernández introduced himself as Cricket the VII and dismissed the others as “bad dogs,” referring to Noem as a “great” dog owner.
“All this stuff about killing animals is just media spin,” Hernández said.
“But she wrote about it in her own book,” replied co-host Colin Jost.