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I can understand the group not wanting their animals to be given to just anyone, but my gosh, here you have a loving family who wants the dog, who bonded with the dog, and they take the dog away? All they need to do is go investigate the family and make sure they are good people, and give them back the dog! Poor Ellen!

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Very emotional piece from Ellen DeGeneres. It had me crying after watching it. I can't believe that they took the dog away from the daughters. The young girls and family had a connection to Iggy. It borderlines on arrogance on the agency!

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As you said Anna, watching & hearing Ellen's plea was really heart wrenching. Ellen mentioned that she failed to do what we must always remember to do before signing our names to any document, and that is to read the whole document, and make sure we understand the contents of that document.

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Typically rescue shelters will allow a trade to happen, however it needs to happen on their terms, as necessary paperwork needs to be filled out for auditing purposes. We were able to find a family for a dog that wasn't working out with us, but had to sign papers "returning" the dog to the shelter before the other family was able to adopt her again.

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No, don't like the dog stay at the house, stick it in a cage, that makes your group look really nice. I don't know why the place just didn't tell Ellen that she has to take the dog back until the thing is fixed. I think that would have been the right thing to do.

And you would think this group would know better than to screw with people's pets.

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According to the story (TMZ's version of it, anyway) the shelter had a rep sent over to the hairdresser's home with cops in tow to retrieve the dog. Cops? Geez.

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I am director of Pryor's Planet, Jennifer Pryor, and we do adoption contracts that also stipulate, "if you need to give up the dog, he/she must be returned to Pryor's Planet."
Having said this: If this happend to us, I would work with the family...ask them to go through the adoption process; fill out the adoption application, have a home check and if everything checks out, Ellen can pay a second adoption fee and the hairdresser's family would be able to keep the dog and provide the loving home they say they can provide!
All these parties need to work together for the sake of Iggy!

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There are exceptions to every rule. My God, if rules that got broken weren't sometimes "modified", the White House would be in worse shape than it already is. Give the dog to the loving home, slap Ellen on the wrist, and get over it to these awful people who can't see that in the end, there are broken hearts and potentially a dog put down. What a warped world.

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Geez, take a chill pill, Ellen. Its not a great situation, but you seem a little overwrought!! I totally side with Ellen, on this one and I think the agency went a little overboard for sure. One of the other respondents suggested that the agency go to the peoples house and interview the family and do thier own inspection, which I think is a great idea. I am sure it can be worked out, but I am more worried about Ellen being so broke up about this. Doesn't anyone else think she is over-reacting to the whole situation????

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This is the most sad thing I've seen in a long long time.

My heart goes out to Ellen. SHE DID DO THE RIGHT THING! Her actions came from her heart. Elen did not act out of self-fishness, but rather compassion, honesty, care, concern and so many more positive character assests.

Now, as for this dog agency..>WHAT AN HEARTLESS CALLOUS ASSININE ACT!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! THE ENTIRE DOG AGENCY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!!!!!!!

In a world where children are being abused, wars are being fought, people are figthing for a small piece of happiness a Dog Agency rips a dog from the arms and hearts of children and a loving family and a good home...what has happened to the "primary purpose" of an animal adoption agency......there is soooooooooo MUCH WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!!!

Pathetic!!!!!!

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Ellen is to be commended for 1) adopting a dog; 2) recognizing when it wasn't working out; and, 3) doing the morally right thing to ensure that the dog had a good home with caring owners. I'm personally tired of the attitude of organizations that insist on implementing rules, despite the ridiculousness of doing so. If it is true that the pet refuge involved the police to retrieve the dog, they should be ashamed of resorting to such Gestapo techniques. One wonders why an organization supposedly committed to caring and compassion so utterly fails to apply those same virtues to people who want to help their cause to save unwanted animals from euthanasia.

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If the shelter was doing it's damn job, they would have told her that the dog doesn't get along with cats.

I watched it live, and my heart hurts too...

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Just tell the group no and hang up. Done.

Everybody in San Diego must lie to get animals from the shelters as the shelters have totally unrealistic expectations. It goes with the game.

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How did the shelter get the address? Why would she answer any questions? After I took my cats from the shelter they were mine. The shelter's hold on them ended at that moment. ditto this dog.

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Is evey organization in America that claims to help totally screwed up, forget the damn rules, just find the dogs good homes, case closed.

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More bureacracy gone haywire. These people who run the shelter have a 'do not tell us what to do attitude'. They would rather have animals go UNADOPTED then to have them adopted on someone else's terms.

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Ellen made one huge mistake, she told the truth. Should have just said the dog is doing great and have hung up the phone.

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Please help these little girls and their family get back the dog they fell in love with.

http://www.petitiononline.com/FreeIggy/petition.html

You can also contact them directly to let them know your opinion on this matter(there website has currently been pulled):

Mutts and Moms
Paw Boutique
523 S Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
626.394.0946
Email: pawboutique@yahoo.com
www.muttsandmoms.org

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Don't let this sour you on adopting animals, especially from 'rescue' organizations, though. The rescue shelters in many places are a last chance for animals that were in traditional shelters but otherwise would have been put down (in a lot of cases, at least in my part of the country, it's a case of the local humane society and/or animal control just not having the funding to house as many animals as they need to). We recently fostered some kittens from a pregnant mother taken with dozens of others from a 'cat lady', and two of the litter went to a rescue agency in our state specifically for their breed, which is common. Either this organization is nuts, or not on the level. As sad as it is, it's another one of those "buried in fine print" issues.

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Thanks Jenn for the email address, they will be getting an email from me!

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