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If her hairdresser wanted the dog so bad, why doesn't she go adopt it herself?

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"If Ellen wants to place dogs and decide what's a good home, then she should start her own rescue group," she told "Inside Edition." "But I'm the one doing this and I know what I'm doing."

Wow that is just pure power trip, she should be put to death.

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@Eric

Right, a woman who has made adopting dogs her life's work is on a power trip because she thinks she knows better than a celebrity. Uh huh, sure.

This is the terrible power of celebrity in this culture. People are sending *threats* about this. That's just insane.

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From what I read in other stories on this, the adoption agency has a policy of not placing small dogs with families with children under 14. They said that this was for the dog's safety, thus why the agency took the dog back.

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Actually the joke is that it says it won't give the dog to less than 14 year olds, so the mom is only 14? lol

Anyways they already gave the dog away, it "broke" last night on Countdown.

This is also supposedly a quote from the bitch, the person who "owners" the dog, not the dog....

"We aren't giving it back after how we have been treated". - The Bitch

Pardon my French, Fuck you bitch! Give the damn dog back and people will no longer be bothering you!

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I think Ellen should be shot in the *** for doing this to those girls. Then having the oddasity to cry for help. If i were the women who has been harrased, i would sue ellens little lezbo ass. Who does she think she is. She is a sinner. Go spread ypur gospel elsewhere dike.

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Bottom line is this: Ellen signed a piece of paper saying VERY specifically "i will not give this dog to anyone else without clearing it with the people i am receiving it from."

everything else is meaningless. she entered a contract, broke it, and expects not to be held to the deal she entered. her followers are a bunch of pathetic zombies.

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I don't understand that if you adopt a pet, but for whatever reason cannot keep the pet BUT you find the pet another good home, then why can the shelter take the pet away from you?

And if the family (or persons) involved receiving the pet is attached to the pet, then isn't that just cruel?

I don't know Ellen, don't watch her show, but this whole thing seems like a bad move for the shelter-- since it's their priority to place pets with people who want to have pets, and I'm not surprised others contacted the shelter to complain after hearing about it.

Assuming they do have to go through the process of having the hairdresser adopt the pet, then why didn't the shelter just do that (assuming it has to be formal).

As far a policy on not allowing families with children under 14 to have small dogs from their shelter seems to be greatly limiting. I've known many families with young children who have pets. Pets enrich our lives. To say that you can only have a pet when you're of a certain age, may be in their contract (I guess), however that doesn't necessarily make it right or lawful.

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MC. If you adopt a pet you are only really renting the pet. At anytime, even years and years from now if you can't have the pet you are supposed to give it back.

This is why you adopt pets from homes, not shelters.

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I had the misfortune of dealing with a rescue group in May of 2006. I had lost my cocker spaniel of 15 years, and in my attempt to be responsible in getting a new dog, I contacted rescue groups.

I have NEVER been through such an annoying process in my life. If I had lived close enough, they would have done a home visit, but due to how far I lived they asked me to send pictures, which I did. And then more pictures... and more pictures... then I had to build a fence... fenced area wasn't big enough (it was 30 feet wide by 40 feet wide for a 6 month old puppy, and I explained we would expand with the dogs age as I had more than enough room to do so)... I sent more pictures... more phone calls... lists of everyone who would have contact with the dog...

I finally called it quits and went to an AKC approved breeder.

Every person I have spoken to since about it has pretty much said my experience was not unusual. Yes, rescue people, for the most part, DO have a power trip, and it's quite honestly sick. I bent over backwards for these people, I provided documentation showing Beau had lived 15 years, and my dog before him had lived 18 years. They still weren't convinced I would treat this dog well...

I will never speak with a rescue group again.

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Come on. It's just a dog, and anyone who wants to take car e of it and love it should be allowed. This lady sounds like a real piece of work. Maybe technically Ellen wasn't supposed to do that, but come on. It's not she was giving it to Lindsey Lohan. There are dogs in homes that don't take care of them all over the country, I don't think Ellen is one of those snobby celebrities, she always seemed like a decent person and a real animal lover. She wouldn't give the dog to a home that couldn't take care of it. This makes that lady and her shelter seem completely ridiculous. I wonder if this wasn't Ellen would she have even bothered to get involved in the story. She just wanted her 15 minutes of fame. Well, she got it alright.

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The policy is there for a reason. The Shelter has a responsibility to find a decent home for the dog. They thought they found it in Ellen. They didn't know this other family. They could have been the Waltons or they could have been Michael Vic for all they knew.

There is no power trip. The ones who run the shelter are the ones qualified to make the decision. Ellen should have worked out a trial run with someone from the shelter to see how her dog got along with her cats before committing to adopting it.

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Oh Hell No. This has nothing to do with Ellen's sexuality, so leave your homophobic comments to yourself. Why is TV Squad allowing such comments on their site?

Ellen admitted she made a mistake, but she owned up to it when the agency called to check in. She didn't lie. She told the truth.

The adoption agency told the family they could fill out a long online form to be considered for adoption before yanking the dog out of the home. I understand taking a dog away if young children are involved, but these girls aren't far from the age of 14...

the whole thing is a mess and I feel bad for everyone involved.

and if you're going to insult Ellen's sexuality maybe you should learn to spell the terms properly. It's "Dyke" not "Dike"... and it's "Lesbo" not "Lezbo". You shouldn't be allowed to use words if you can't even spell them. Oh and it's 2007, get with the times. Homophobia isn't in fashion anymore.

Go ahead, call me a faggot (or to spell it for you, faggit), I don't care. I'm sick of people slinging names against the LGBT community for no reason.

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it's a dog. Not rocket science. Ellen wouldn't give it to someone like Michael Vick. Come on. Some people just crave negative attention and getting in the papers. Who rips a dog of the hands of children anyway?? G-d how evil.

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"it's a dog. Not rocket science. Ellen wouldn't give it to someone like Michael Vick."

Point being it wasn't within her power to give it to anyone. You allow this to slide and you set the slippery slope for some John Doe to give the dog to someone like Vick or any other number of animal abusers.

"Who rips a dog of the hands of children anyway??"

Someone whose responsibility it is to see the dog has a good home.

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The people Ellen got the dog from are crazy. They escalated the situation. Their actions show that they were not looking for a reasonable resolution to the situation. They cannot sue Ellen because she never named them to the media. They or the media made their name known to the public and if any problem comes from all the bad media it’s the private pet shelters fault not Ellens.

My advice to Ellen is next time get your pet from a county shelter. Stop dealing with Crazy Pet Mills.

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The people Ellen got the dog from are crazy. They escalated the situation. Their actions show that they were not looking for a reasonable resolution to the situation. They can not sue Ellen because she never named them to the media. They or the media made their name known to the public and if any problem comes from all the bad media it’s their fault not Ellen’s.

My advice to Ellen is to get her next pet from a County Animal Shelter and not from Pet Nazi Mills.

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Was Ellen's hairdresser Puerto Rican? Just asking.

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I'm not surprised that people are upset that Iggy was taken away from the family that Ellen gave him to. Mutts & Mom's are hiding being a stupid made up rule that they won't give small dogs to family with children under 14. Ridiculous.

Even though Ellen was wrong to give away the dog based on the terms of the contract, Mutts & Mom's are just as wrong to arbitrarily deem the family unworthy because there are pre-teen children in the house. You'll notice that they haven't said that there was evidence that the the dog was neglected or abused when they reclaimed it. Nor did they say there was any problem with the lawn at the hairdressers house. The backlash would have been a lot less, if they had offered some other reason that the hairdresser's home was unsuitable, instead of making it all about the age of the children.

Rather than look for a reasonable solution, they have called Ellen a bully for making the dispute public on her show. Just because what they did was legal doesn't mean it was the right way to handle the situation. Mutts & Mom's could have turned this whole situation around by verifying that Iggy was not in any danger, making an exception to their age rule & letting Ellen's hairdresser formalize an adoption. Ellen could have been required to pay a second adoption fee as a penalty for not following the terms of her contract.

However, since they've dug in their heels, Mutts & Mom's will have to suffer the consequences of their poor judgement & astonishingly bad customer service.

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I work at a county animal shelter in the sacramento area. This whole thing just seems strange to me. For one thing, the rescue could not be sued if the dog bit children as long as they had a standard waiver in their adoption forms. Also as a shelter worker I can say that the main focus should be making sure a dog has a good home, even if it means making sure the children in it are good with the dog. We do it every day. Spending time taking a dog away from a caring family that it has spent time with is an act of cruelty. Dogs bond quickly, and repeated trips back to rescues or shelters can even deteriorate their health. In my opinion, the rescue should have just assertained that the dog was in a good home and left it at that. Sometimes you just let things go if it works out for the dogs good and move on to helping the next one.

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