Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) assured Republican donors Saturday that the outrage she has stirred from the story of shooting her hunting dog has been “a good thing.”

Noem was in Florida for a private donor retreat alongside Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), per a report, when she responded to the backlash to the excerpt from No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward in which she revealed that after her 14-month-old dog attacked a neighbor’s chickens and her, she took the dog to a gravel pit and shot it. Originally, Noem was slated to attend a fundraiser Saturday night in Colorado, but it was canceled due to threats.