Ellen’s In The Doghouse!
Posted by Slobokan @ 10:52 pm · 287 words · print
You have to love “rescue” organizations that really don’t care about the animals best interest.
Ellen DeGeneres is in the doghouse with a pet rescue agency after giving a pooch away to her hairdresser because it didn’t get along with her cats.
The talk show hostess and her partner Portia de Rossi adopted Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix, on Sept. 20. But when things didn’t work out, DeGeneres gave the dog to her hairdresser.
In doing so, DeGeneres violated an agreement with the Mutts and Moms agency by not informing them of the handoff.
When the agency called DeGeneres to ask about Iggy, she said she found another home for the dog. The agency sent a representative to the hairdresser’s home Sunday and took the dog away.
DeGeneres went public with the doggy ordeal Monday while taping an episode of her show to air Tuesday. She admitted she didn’t read all the paperwork involving the adoption.
DeGeneres said she spent $3,000 having the dog neutered and trained to be with her cats. But the dog had too much energy and was too rambunctious, she told her television audience.
“I guess I signed a piece of paper that says if I can’t keep Iggy, it goes back to the rescue organization, which is not someone’s home, which is not a family,” she said in a show transcript provided to The Associated Press.
“I thought I did a good thing. I tried to find a loving home for the dog because I couldn’t keep it.”
Who in the hell would take a dog away from a loving family? And who in the hell would pay $3,000 to neuter and train their dog? Oy.
Those people just better leave Ellen alone!
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Posted by Cynthia Owen
October 16, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
UNREAL!! she found a loving home for a pet who needed one and look what happened. rules like this exist for protection of the animals i understand, but logic and reason should override rules in this case….Ellen is well known as an animal lover, would never send an animal into a bad situation, frankly has too much to lose to make a poor decision about this. a rabid control freak works for or runs this agency, beware!!
Posted by Puglover
October 16, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
You can email the owner, Vanessa, at:
pawboutique@yahoo.com
I’m sure she’d love to hear our thoughts.
Posted by Celebrity Trashcan
October 17, 2007 @ 11:16 pm
What a mess. The purpose of rescuing a pet and adopting it is to find it a loving home. Ellen claims to have done so but the agency was quick to snatch Iggy back. The agency should have been a bit more patient. I just hope Iggy finds a great home. He’s so adorable and is a celebrity pooch now.
Posted by Laota French
October 21, 2007 @ 4:06 am
While I can understand the desire to protect an animal from potentially unsuitable owners, all they had to do was check this hairdresser out. It wouldn’t be hard for them, they could just replace the effort they make to take the dogs away with equal time and effort to check up on the new owner. I can’t help wondering if the Mutts and Moms agency weren’t just making an example out of Ellen, either to send a stern message at her expense, or get their names in the paper. I hate when crap like this happens.