Lily Allen slams animal charity PETA for ‘dangerous’ post after she clarified her comments about getting her rescue dog Mary rehomed

Lily Allen and animal rights group PETA continue their online war of words after the singer revealed how she rehomed her dog Mary.

The star was criticized by PETA for sending a toy dog ​​last week after she admitted she returned her pet to an animal shelter after it ate her and her children’s passports and visas.

Lily has since clarified her comments, explaining that the passport incident was the straw that broke the camel’s back after a long period of Mary trying to settle into her childhood home.

She ended her statement about X by attacking PETA, writing, “Also thanks to @peta for adding fuel to the fire. Very responsible of you.”

The comment prompted an angry response from PETA’s official X account, which responded:

“YOU laughed when you talked about abandoning Mary and ruining this poor dog’s life. She thought she had a loving forever home before you threw her out and called her ‘that f****** dog’ who ‘ruined my life’. Shame on you. You don’t even deserve the toy dog ​​we sent you.”

Lily responded, writing: ‘People laugh all the time when they talk about hurtful things, that’s perfectly normal. I made it clear that we didn’t abandon her and she was rehomed almost immediately with people we know.’

“Why do you keep spreading lies? What kind of animal welfare organization tries to shame someone for trying to improve the welfare of an animal? Your message is dangerous.”

Lily received the stuffed animal and a concise letter from the organization’s Elisa Allen, who said, “It’s really the only animal you should ever have in your home,” after she shared Mary’s original story on her Miss Me? podcast.

Lily, who lives in New York with her 49-year-old husband, actor David Harbour, and their children Ethel (13) and Marnie (11), made the confession to her friend and co-host Miquita Oliver. She lamented that adopting the dog had “ruined her life” because it had cost a fortune to replace the documents. She also added that her daughters were unable to see their father for months.

She said: ‘She was very badly behaved and I tried very hard for her but it just didn’t work. The passports were the straw that broke the camel’s back.’

The Not Fair hitmaker added that replacing her documents proved to be a “logistical nightmare”.

Lily has learned that the passport incident was the straw that broke the camel’s back after months of trying to get Mary settled into her childhood home.

Lily wrote this past weekend: ‘We rescued our puppy Mary from a shelter in New York and we loved her very much, BUT she developed quite severe separation anxiety and was acting out in all sorts of ways.’

‘She could not be left alone for more than 10 minutes. She was walked for long periods 3 times a day, 2 times by us and 1 time with a local dog walker and several other dogs.’

“We worked with the shelter we got her from and they referred us to a behavioral specialist and a professional trainer. It was a volunteer from the shelter who came to look after her when we weren’t there.

‘And after many months and much discussion, everyone agreed that our home was not the best place for Mary.’

“We knew the person she was placed with and that rehoming took place within 24 hours of her being returned.”

“We were unable to meet Mary’s needs and her happiness and well-being were paramount to us in making that decision, as difficult as it was.”