No, Gerwig claims afterward that this was the case — there’s absolutely no evidence that this was true, and of course, this is exactly what anyone would say after the fact.

Generally, when people are caught doing something they shouldn’t, they nearly always say, “Oh, I’d finished doing that, I wasn’t going to do it any more.”

This guy had no idea of how to take care of a wild animal, and he shouldn’t have been doing it. Get a dog, FFS, there are far too many wonderful dogs who need homes or will get killed.