But maybe the fact that she kept him for four years means that she tried a bunch of things and didn’t give up on him easily? There is a charitable interpretation of this.

Or she did look at those things, and through consulting several dog trainers she decided that an offer for a better home for her dog was a good idea. Some dogs are fine living a jet-setting lifestyle, some are not; and often two is better than one because they entertain each other a bit when owners are busy.

I dislike Lena Dunham immensely but I’ve worked in animal welfare for years and yes this does happen. Sure, there are assholes who don’t even try but if what this trainer is saying is true, she did her best and this is not a good fit for both of them. It is entirely possible Lena’s lifestyle is triggering to the dog;…

Two of the shelter dogs I have are great, but one... She never recovered, and just got progressively worse. She was very unpredictable with children, adults other than me, and other dogs. I took her to a trainer and was told to put her down. I didn’t! But until her last day she was unstable, and I lived in fear of her…

Also, to follow up on something from few days ago, Donal Logue’s daughter has been found and is safely back home. Nice to have good news for once!

I don’t know the details of this dog, but there are some dogs out there, just like people, who react differently. Some dogs do not get better.

That’s such dumb logic, because dogs from breeders can have all sorts of behavioral issues (and I say this as someone who is not opposed to responsible breeding). I once got bit in the face by a family member’s dog who was bought as a puppy from a breeder.

Agreed. Rehoming is usually not this complicated, but it can be, and if an individual comes to the conclusion that they cannot give a particular animal what it needs and decides to rehome (and I think it should be emphasized that what Dunham did is a lot different from dumping your animal outside a shelter or…

Yeah not sure how I feel about that. I got my dogs through rehoming. They were a friend’s mother’s dogs. Her mother passed away and her father couldn’t/didn’t want to care for them as his late wife was their, I guess, primary caregiver. No ill feelings against him at all, he did the right thing. His lifestyle meant he…

What are reasonable expectations of someone who adopts a dog? She spent four years and tons of money and the problems are still happening, including biting. She didn’t drive out to the country and abandon it, she found a new home for it.

I have all rescues myself. Difficult dogs are not for everybody. And it looks like she wasn’t fit for that dog as much as it wasn’t fit for her. These things happen. And she took the care to re-home it. That’s not irresponsible, in fact quite the opposite.

Yep. I read that as don’t adopt a shelter dog because they’ll go crazy in 6 months.

A lot of dogs get turned into the humane society for behavioral problems. If this dog was more than Dunham could handle, then she did the right thing by getting him to the people who could. Lamby is now with an owner that can manage his problems and loves him. That’s the best outcome for the dog.

There are parts of her story I can believe. We had a shelter dog who got extremely aggressive after we’d had him for a while. If you woke him up suddenly he’d attack (came at my face once, luckily he didn’t get me). I remember once, when I was on the sofa, one of my brother’s friends was over and tripped and fell…

Good thing your personal experience is universal, and all dogs are the same, then.

The vicious judgment about Lena’s dog is so sad...if you hate her you probably haven’t heard much about the story of that dog, how much she loved him and how hard she tried. Lamby repeatedly bit people, badly. You can’t responsibly keep a dog after 4 years trying to correct that behavior.

I don’t necessarily take issue with Lena Dunham. It doesn’t look great and I don’t like her in general but we don’t know the dog or the situation.

Yeah. It sucks, but it does happen. I don’t think it’s super common - major quick onset personality changes (as opposed to gradual aging changes) are not something I see all that often as a vet, but a trainer or behavioralist will obviously have those cases filtered to them.

My ma adopted a shitzhu who was a baby machine for the first 7 years of her life. My mother is undiagnosed bipolar and focused all of her mania on this dog. Her demeanor and body language encouraged anxiety and neuroticism in the dog, which is expressed in aggressive and and nervous behaviour around other dogs and…

Sorry but this story is shit-stirring and mean.