WASHINGTON — Kristi Noem loves animals — some more than others.

The Homeland Security secretary insisted to columnist Miranda Devine that she had no regrets about revisiting destroying a “dangerous” family dog in a memoir that caused widespread outrage when it was published last year.

“I absolutely love animals. I’ve always had dogs. I still have a dog that goes everywhere with me. And that situation there was hard,” Noem, 53, said on the latest episode of the “Pod Force One” podcast. 3

The then-South Dakota governor left political commentators and millions of dog-lovers aghast when she detailed killing Cricket, a 14-month-old female wirehaired pointer, more than two decades earlier in her book, “No Going Back.”

“The dog [Cricket] was actively killing animals for fun, had

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