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Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 10.16.2007

DeGeneres in the Dog House for Giving Away Adopted Dog

10/16/07

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LOS ANGELES — 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 did not work out, DeGeneres gave the dog to her hairdresser.
In doing so, DeGeneres violated an agreement with the Mutts and Moms 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 with the doggy ordeal 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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302037,00.html

AfterShock · **^ Top** #2 10.17.2007

x Bummers!

Sure doesn't sound right,....................but,

I can't imagine some one, especially in show business, that would sign a contract without KNOWING what's in it.

She doesn't have an attorney who looks those things over?

Cybergal · **^ Top** #3 10.17.2007

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Originally Posted by AfterShock

x Bummers!

Sure doesn't sound right,....................but,

I can't imagine some one, especially in show business, that would sign a contract without KNOWING what's in it.

She doesn't have an attorney who looks those things over?

Most of those Adoption agencies make you sign a paper stating that if you can't keep the animal it has to be returned to them.

Also, I don't think you get back the adoption money either, which would be nothing for her to worry about Iam sure.

But a contract is a contract and these places take it real serious.

Ellen made a mistake and she owned up to that....The agency should have gone and inspected the home where the dog was and had the people fill out an application right there and then to keep the dog.

This could have been handled differently and much better, since there are so many DOGS/CATS needing homes, you would have thought the agency would had been willing to work this out....SIGH

Cybergal · **^ Top** #4 10.17.2007

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10/17/07

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As a result of the publicity, Marina Batkis and Vanessa Chekroun received voice mail and e-mail threats of death and arson and were besieged by the media, disrupting business at Paws Boutique store in Pasadena, where they handle the volunteer, nonprofit rescue agency, attorney Keith A. Fink said.
Batkis rejected DeGeneres' plea to give the dog back to her hairstylist's family.
"She (Batkis) doesn't think this is the type of family that should have the dog," said Fink, who is not legally representing the owners but is authorized to speak for them. "She is adamant that she is not going to be bullied around by the Ellen DeGenereses of the world ... They are using their power, position and wealth to try to get what it is they want."
DeGeneres' attorney, Kevin Yorn, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
"It's very upsetting to hear that someone is getting those kind of calls," DeGeneres' publicist Kelly Bush said. "Ellen just wants the dog reunited with the family."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/...YRo8T0kfas0NUE

AfterShock · **^ Top** #5 10.17.2007

Now THAT sheds a different light on things, doesn't it?

Sounds like SOMEone has allowed a LITTLE power to go to their BIG head.

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