By now you are aware of the epic saga surrounding Lena Dunham and her dog, Lamby, and also Lena Dunham’s potentially unhinged relationship with the concept of Truth. Did Lamby ever actually suffer from behavioral problems, or did Dunham invent them so she could dump Lamby for two newer, shinier pups to write about in the New Yorker? Or, is Lena Dunham such an inept dog owner that she made Lamby insane?
According to Matt Beisner, an L.A.-based dog trainer at Zen Dog who spent a year working with Lamby, Dunham did everything she could before making the decision to re-home him. Beisner told People he has “nothing but respect and admiration for those who work in the shelter world,” and said that Lamby’s sudden change in personality wasn’t unusual:
“The dog that we see in the shelter is often not that the dog that we see in the home,” he says. “And often the dog in the home on day one is different than the dog that we see at the six-month mark. It’s so predictable that I can almost put it on the calendar. When someone tells me they adopted a dog, I’m waiting for them to call.”
By the time Dunham reached out to him, Dunham had already worked with six other trainers. It quickly became clear why: