Here's a brief guide to the controversies surrounding South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's latest autobiography "No Going Back."

Even in the age of Donald Trump, shooting a pooch turns out to fall foul of American political norms.

Since Gov. Kristi Noem’s disclosure of her farmyard killing spree, everybody’s been focused on Cricket. That’s understandable. Cricket was a 14-month-old dog. It’s easy to imagine her head jutting out of a pickup window,

The petition came after an excerpt from No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward revealed that Noem killed her 14-month-old hunting dog Cricket because it was “less than worthless” at hunting, attacked a neighbor’s chickens, and attacked the governor.

A literary critic’s take on the South Dakota governor’s memoir, “No Going Back.” Toward the end of Fred Gipson’s 1956 classic, “Old Yeller,” Travis says, “It was going to kill something inside me to do it, but I knew then that I had to shoot my big yeller dog.”

The South Dakota governor already confessed in her new memoir "No Going Back" to shooting her puppy called Cricket dead.

Noem is encouraging people to read her new book, No Going Back, and judge the dog-shooting anecdote for themselves. She probably shouldn’t.