Ellen & Dog Controversy

[pantsonfire]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38lfe_crying-ellen-degeneres-comedy-versi_news

[Mylan23]

lol geez they're just dogs!

[thecoalman]

lol geez they're just dogs!

You ever own a pet? They are like family members. It doesn't take long to get attached to them especially for kids.

Anyhow after reading some articles on this sounds to me as if the shelters rules are a little too stringent, e.g. dogs can't go to households with kids. WTF is that all about? The dog apparently is better off living in cage than with a family... It's not the kids you need to worry about but the parents, shit rolls downhill.

Anyhow anyone interested in a dog get one as a puppy from a private home. Preferably a mutt. Trust me you won't be sorry.

[gadgetguy]

IMO Celebrity status should disqualify the person from adoption, whether for pets or children.

[Supreme2k]

The main thing was that she broke the contract. She basically sublet the dog. That was very irresponsible of her to get a dog, and then figure out that she couldn't handle it. I can understand the under 14 rule, considering that there are so many sue happy people.


Also, they almost immediately got it a new home, so the whole "better with a family than in a cage" argument is moot.

[SquirrelDip]

I agree with Supreme2k - those rules are in place for a reason. She broke the agreement, end of story.

As for breaking the kids heart - bullshit. Kids get over this pretty damn easy. I'm not cold hearted, I do believe dogs become part of a family - but it takes time...

[moviebuff2]

In this litigious world that we live in, Ellen may be sued by both the agency and the family to whom she gave the dog.

1) The agency can sue Ellen for breaking the contract. Further more, they can sue her for harrassing phone calls made by her office threatening to go public and the consequences of it. Last and not least, they can also sue Ellen & GE (NBC) for invoking violence (death threats) by using public television to air Ellen's "crying session".

2) The hair dresser's family can sue Ellen for NEGLIGENTLY inflict emotional pain/distress on them by breaking the contract with the adopting agency and giving them the dog without warning them that the agency might have taken back the dog.

If I were one of those ambulance chasers, I would definitely approach these 2 groups of people - the agency & the hair dresser's family - for filing law suits againts Ellen & GE. She has deep pocket. GE has even deeper pocket.

That's the reality of our litigious world!

[thecoalman]

The main thing was that she broke the contract. She basically sublet the dog.

I agree, she should have read the contract but i think its a bit overboard when you take a dog out of perfectly acceptable home. The idea is for these agencies to place dogs in homes. Instead they have rules which prevent them from placing them in good homes, coincidetally it gives them all the more reason to plead and beg to the public for money to help the poor animals.

Also, they almost immediately got it a new home, so the whole "better with a family than in a cage" argument is moot.

The only reason that dog got a home was because it had celebrity status, what about the other couple hundred thousand poor mutts sitting in cage waiting for hoems or worse yet to be put to death. That's why this makes no sense to me, understandbly if the home was populated by the owners from hell by all means the dog should be taken back. There isn't anything to support that, instead it was taken becuse someone broke a contract, a unreasonble contract IMO.

Futhermore I would love to see records on how the shelter has operated in the past where similar circumstances have arisen. Would be interesting to see if they followed the same line or if someone at the shelter decided to go on a power trip for this case.