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.
Can we speak to the dog please?...we don’t trust you.
From the headline I thought she had broken up with her girlfriend.
Yes, I read it. That’s the reason I think taking away this dog from a family is ridiculous! She got it a good home.
The left eating the left....no one does it better!
SHE WAS THE HIGHEST BIDDER??
Ellen, if you decide you want to give away Portia de Rossi, give me a call...
But, seriesly, dog purchase contracts are very specific. A responsible seller often puts a condition such as this, that the dog must be returned rather than passed on, in the contract.
I am glad you posted this. As useless and blah as it is, it does have an underlying message.
These “feel good,” non-profit, life loving, advocacy groups are more about the “business” than they are about their mission.
Doesn’t this seem a little self serving of an organization that is for the proper treatment of pets?
I challenge someone to go and find out about the funding of this non-profit organization. I will lay 3 to 1 odds that they get some tax funded subsidies and those funds are based on adoption numbers, numbers of orphaned pets, pet turnover, etc. See, by Ellen “giving the pet away”, I think the organization missed an opportunity to record another adoption.
I could be wrong. One way or another, there is an agenda for these folks more important than finding a good home (at least in this one instance.)
Lots of folks have this same story to tell - except its with the CPS.
For a minute there, I thought you were replying to the reply right above your — #10!
Mutts and Moms dog rescue agency?....sounds like the soup nazi to me.....
Because lezbos are notorious pet abusers?
Agreed, this is ridiculous.
Many rescue organizations have it in writing that you can not give or sell the dog to anyone but back to the organization. They are very careful where the dog ends up.
Another senseless organization, this Moms and Mutts group, that they cannot be reasonable about DeGeneres’ mistake.
And I appreciate DeGeneres’ intentions.
My bad.
I expect Iggy will be on Ebay soon, as these things go.....
I agree with ya twigs. They think they can control the owners like they would the pet itself. Who do they think they are the pet police?
Would it be ridiculous if she had found the dog a new home at Michael Vick's place?
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