Guilfoyle, known for her time on Fox News and work on the 2020 Trump campaign, expressed her excitement about the book release, declaring that a portion of the sales proceeds would be directed to an animal welfare charity. However, the timing of her announcement elicited unfavorable comparisons with Noem’s own narrative in her forthcoming memoir.

The Republican governor detailed how she shot her 14-month-old German wirehaired pointer, Cricket, because it was poorly behaved and “untrainable.” She then disposed of the dog in a nearby gravel pit.

In the memoir, she also wrote about how she had to put down a male goat, also owned by her family, because he was “nasty and mean” and was prone to knocking over her children.