If you happened to see The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, you saw Ellen telling a very sad story about Iggy - a dog she adopted and then gave to her hairdresser's family because the dog was not getting along with her cats.
Seems harmless enough.
Well, not so fast.
Ellen adopted this dog and anyone who adopts a dog knows that when you do this there are papers to sign. You promise to give the dog a good home, to take it to the vet, and so on. And, you also promise - apparently - to not give the pet away.
This is what happened to Ellen. One of the papers she signed stated that if she couldn't keep the dog she had to return it to the shelter. Ellen said she was unaware of this and was simply trying to do the right thing by putting the puppy in a loving home.
The reason she is so upset is this --- the "rescue" organization took the puppy away from the new adoptive family. Yeah, they took the dog back to the shelter and out of a home where it was being loved and fed and cared for.
See full story here.
Seriously, was this necessary? It's not as if Ellen set the dog free on Sunset Blvd. and said "hey good luck pup." She gave the dog to a family who wanted a puppy and was more than capable of taking good care of the dog.
So why did this shelter have such a problem with this? What are they trying to prove by taking the dog away? Do they actually think it's helping the dog by removing it? It boggles my mind...they actually think the puppy is happier back in a small cage at the shelter than he was in this family's home?
I think not.
[The rescue is called Mutts and Moms...and oddly enough when you try to find their homepage, it's missing].
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