The shelter have replied, calling out her claim
Last week Lena Dunham took to Instagram to explain why her “beloved” dog, Lamby, has been missing from her feed, in a shattering tale of abuse, frustration and an ultimate inability to change.
“Well, you know honesty is my jam,” she began, “but this one has been really heartbreaking to talk about.”
Lena explained how she gave her dog away because of its history of abuse
She recently gave Lamby over to a facility in Los Angeles because she could no longer live with the dog’s “untreatable illnesses,” and “aggression” — the dog, apparently “biting and peeing in his own mouth.”
She claimed Lamby, “suffered terrible abuse as a pup that made having him in a typical home environment dangerous to him and others.”
All of this did pull at the heartstrings — even for the most adamant Dunham hater out there — until the shelter responded with a very different account of the pup’s formative years.
The shelter released a response
“We checked the records for Lamby,” Robert Vasquez, A spokesperson for BARC Shelter in Brooklyn told Yahoo News. “He was ‘owner surrendered, not enough time’ so we don’t know where she got ‘multiple owners abused that dog’ (something she said in a New Yorker piece — ‘three other homes, three other names, but now he’s mine, mine, mine.’)”
He went on, “When she adopted the dog from us it wasn’t crazy. Do you think BARC would have adopted him to Lena knowing she’s a star, and put her — or the dog — in that situation? We would have told her if the dog had issues. We are a no-kill shelter. We don’t lie about dogs’ histories.”
That’s when angry people began piling in
Even people who had never had opinions before
The original Instagram has since been deleted, but you can still view screenshots of it.
She’s posted a response to the backlash
“It’s come to my attention the staff where I adopted Lamby have a very different account of his early life and behavioral issues than I do.”
“It’s just hard to believe the dog was nasty when she took Lamby to every green room with her when Girls was still a thing four years ago,” the BARC rep replied.