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DeGeneres under fire for giving away dog
A.P. ^ | 10/16/07 | BETH HARRIS

Posted on 10/16/2007 12:08:02 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

Edited on 10/16/2007 12:11:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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 dog rescue 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 about the situation 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."

DeGeneres said her hairdresser's daughters, ages 11 and 12, had bonded with Iggy and were heartbroken when the dog was taken away.

"Because I did it wrong, those people went and took that dog out of their home, and took it away from those kids," a sobbing DeGeneres said on her show.

"I feel totally responsible for it and I'm so sorry. I'm begging them to give that dog back to that family," she said. "It's not their fault. It's my fault. I shouldn't have given the dog away. Just please give the dog back to those little girls."

Mutts and Moms, a volunteer nonprofit organization in Pasadena, does not have a listed phone number and didn't immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; TV/Movies
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"I guess I signed a piece of paper"....Can't remember?...Don't worry Iggy!...you can find a better home than with a Lesbo talk show host. Check out the crying jag!
1 posted on 10/16/2007 12:08:04 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

yeah fine great whatever


2 posted on 10/16/2007 12:10:26 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I’m guessing these are the types of stories AP gives you to cover when you’re new.


3 posted on 10/16/2007 12:10:52 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

How totally ridiculous. Someone should be grateful that this dog found a new home.


4 posted on 10/16/2007 12:10:52 PM PDT by twigs
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Lucky dog.


5 posted on 10/16/2007 12:11:47 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I don’t care for her, she’s a lousy actress etc., but even so: some such agency calls my house to check up on (now) my dog, I’m just gonna reply he was tasty and but needed a little garlic.


6 posted on 10/16/2007 12:11:48 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Another case of “Don’t you know who I am?” syndrome.


7 posted on 10/16/2007 12:12:14 PM PDT by this is my name not yours (Free speech is the escape valve that keeps some people from picking up a rifle.)
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To: twigs

Did you read the article? Ellen gave it to someone else with two kids....that’s who they took the dog away from.


8 posted on 10/16/2007 12:12:59 PM PDT by Borges
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
you can find a better home than with a Lesbo talk show host

Nice.

9 posted on 10/16/2007 12:13:00 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: Slapshot68

What is Portia de Rossi thinking? She is smokin’!


10 posted on 10/16/2007 12:13:07 PM PDT by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Getting a small taste of liberal reality.


11 posted on 10/16/2007 12:13:27 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: theDentist
he was tasty and but needed a little garlic.

Next time try a puppy. They're more tender, like veal.
12 posted on 10/16/2007 12:13:30 PM PDT by this is my name not yours (Free speech is the escape valve that keeps some people from picking up a rifle.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
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.

Don't mess with her pussies.

13 posted on 10/16/2007 12:14:00 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: AppyPappy

So I guess Ellen is a pussy-cat loving kind of woman.

pun


14 posted on 10/16/2007 12:14:53 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: Holicheese

De Rossi is a major league “butterface”.


15 posted on 10/16/2007 12:15:08 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Ellen found the dog a home.

The non-profit is probably just ticked that it lost on another adoption fee.


16 posted on 10/16/2007 12:15:12 PM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Yea, just another story about Ellen’s cats.


17 posted on 10/16/2007 12:15:17 PM PDT by Jigajog
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"The talk show hostess and her partner Portia de Rossi ..."

How in the world does Ellen DeGeneres get this chick!


18 posted on 10/16/2007 12:15:51 PM PDT by avacado (Republicans Destroyed Democrats' Most Cherished Institution: SLAVERY!)
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"In doing so, DeGeneres violated an agreement with the Mutts and Moms dog rescue agency by not informing them of the handoff."

I'd guess you're familiar with such agreements, also.

Had the rugmuncher given away Portia de Rossi, no one would've cared.

...how's *that* for irony. ;^)

19 posted on 10/16/2007 12:16:10 PM PDT by Landru (finally made it to the dark side of the moon.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I would never sign a piece of paper saying I was totally responsible for something (a dog in this case) but that someone else retained most of the rights to it.
Signing a contract with all of the responsibilities (feeding, care, vet bills, legal responsibilities) and not all of the rights doesn’t make sense.
It is either my dog or it isn’t. As long as I am not abusing it, I should be able to do with it as I see fit.


20 posted on 10/16/2007 12:16:29 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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