Ellen Breaks Down on Air

[chillmonster]

Clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9IeL8lx9lg&feature=bz303)

Apparently, animal rescue confiscated a dog she rescued and gave to a family when the dog couldn't get along with any of her other pets. She was visibly shaken from the onset and crying moments later.

[CrystalTears]

I think this is being blown a tad out of proportion, to the point that I'm seeing it on the news when we went to the bar last night, and on the radio this morning. It's unfortunate, but oh lord, let's have some perspective here.

She adopted a dog, it didn't get along with her cat, she gave the dog to her hairdresser's kids. The agency found out that she gave the dog away which is against the contract she signed with them, and they took the dog away from the kids.

She feels bad I'm sure, but omg, find a way to make it work so that the kids get the dog back, not threaten the manager and/or owner of Mutts and Moms with bodily harm and so forth. My god.

[Martaigne]

Idiocy.

[Celephais]

LeAVE ELLEN ALLllllOONE! SHE'S A perrssssON! wwaaaaah!

Hah, christ, how can people watch that show.

[Clove]

You have to admit- our society is getting pretty strange when organizations begin repo'ing dogs....

[Things2Come]

I have a friend at work that had her two dogs taken away...

She was going on vacation and boarded them at a kennel. The kennel said one of them was too skinny, called the humane society, and she's been fighting for about 6 months to get her dogs back.

They claim she neglected the animals, but if you knew her personally, you would know that is the last thing she would ever do. Those dogs were her children.

[Stanley Burrell]

LeAVE ELLEN ALLllllOONE! SHE'S A perrssssON! wwaaaaah!

Hah, christ, how can people watch that show.

Heh. Pretty sure it's every media outlet inflating things here and not Ellen's PR, or A&R, or even ASPCA.

I don't watch Fox News out of healthily body concern, but I imagine this is the sort of severe domestic issue that'd be blasted on its airwaves.

Talk show hosts have shitty days. It's not a publicity stunt.

[Hulkein]

I have a friend at work that had her two dogs taken away...

She was going on vacation and boarded them at a kennel. The kennel said one of them was too skinny, called the humane society, and she's been fighting for about 6 months to get her dogs back.

They claim she neglected the animals, but if you knew her personally, you would know that is the last thing she would ever do. Those dogs were her children.

I think it's kind of hard to make the argument that someone who would pay to have their dogs boarded while they go on vacation would neglect them when they're home.

Sucks that they did that to her.

[Celephais]

Heh. Pretty sure it's every media outlet inflating things here and not Ellen's PR, or A&R, or even ASPCA.

I don't watch Fox News out of healthily body concern, but I imagine this is the sort of severe domestic issue that'd be blasted on its airwaves.

Talk show hosts have shitty days. It's not a publicity stunt.
I was kind of quoting the Leave Britney Alone emotard. ... although you may have gotten that, if so in the second half I wasn't refering to the publicity this generated, so much to the fact that anyone even noticed. I'm surprised she's able to even fill her audience (although it did appear to be filled with fat dykes)

[Stanley Burrell]

Fat lipstick dykes?

[ElanthianSiren]

The contracts for adopting animals are pretty strange.

I know when I moved with Abel (my rescued greyhound), I had to inform the rescue group that I was moving. Also, they had the right to send someone out to my new place to make sure that it was as greyhound safe as my old one. They never did, but I wouldn't care if they had. Read the contract.


edit: I'm also not allowed to give him away, sell him etc (not that that would ever happen). That thinness thing is pretty ridiculous, as dog weight varies quite a bit. Abel actually packed on 10 lbs of straight muscle when I got him because of all his walking. Now that he can't walk as much, he weighs the same, but you can definitely tell he's not as muscular. He is underweight for a dog his size but not for a dog his breed.

[Clove]

Heh. Pretty sure it's every media outlet inflating things here and not Ellen's PR, or A&R, or even ASPCA.

I don't watch Fox News out of healthily body concern, but I imagine this is the sort of severe domestic issue that'd be blasted on its airwaves.

Talk show hosts have shitty days. It's not a publicity stunt.

I don't know from this report (and others I've heard) Ellen's team have been esculating this. Mutts for Mom's didn't do what Ellen wanted and now it's a circus.

http://defamer.com/hollywood/iggygate/ellen-degeneres-turned-america-against-kennel-only-after-threats-failed-to-work-311921.php

[CrystalTears]

No I don't think it's the media inflating the situation. I think it's Ellen who needs to lighten up and go about things the civil and legal way, not the pity me and let's harass the agency way. The media is just eating it up because she's feeding it to them.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

The contracts for adopting animals are pretty strange.

I know when I moved with Abel (my rescued greyhound), I had to inform the rescue group that I was moving. Also, they had the right to send someone out to my new place to make sure that it was as greyhound safe as my old one. They never did, but I wouldn't care if they had. Read the contract.


edit: I'm also not allowed to give him away, sell him etc (not that that would ever happen). That thinness thing is pretty ridiculous, as dog weight varies quite a bit. Abel actually packed on 10 lbs of straight muscle when I got him because of all his walking. Now that he can't walk as much, he weighs the same, but you can definitely tell he's not as muscular. He is underweight for a dog his size but not for a dog his breed.

When I got out of college I worked with Arizona Greyhound Rescue quite a bit, so much so that my Mom (who owns a dog boarding facility on 7 acres) lets them use our third buildings runs when times are slow. It's been a great relationship, and those have GOT to be some of the most loving dogs ever.

Props to you for adopting one, they have special needs (exercise and food usually), but man it's rewarding too!