Ellen DeGeneres Dog Rescue - Moms and Mutts Takes Iggy Back

[Big Dog]

By now you've no doubt heard about this mess. Sad for all involved.

Let's hear your thoughts but please keep it civil.

We have a story and the Ellen DeGeneres Show video on our home page.

Ellen DeGeneres Dog Rescue Mess

[Jansinnet]

Mutts & Moms shouldnt have just come & taken the dog.  They could have handled the situation much better. 
I'm sure Iggy would have given the family a chance.

[Big Dog]

Well, everyone involved could have behaved better.

Sounds like Ellen failed to think through the adoption at the start.
Failed to make a real effort to make it work - the dog was adopted by Ellen and Portia, from published reports, on September 20, 2007. This whole thing blew up after the dog was taken from the other home in mid-October.

That seems like a month or less of effort. With her resources, Ellen could have easily, had she wished, put more effort into a solution at her home.

Did Moms and Mutts over react? Perhaps. It is not like the dog was now in an animal research lab.

But the dog was not in a pre-screened home. I'll grant you that is was better off than most dogs on earth, let alone those that end up being abandoned to begin with.

I think Ellen's comments on air were over-the-top and meant to put pressure on the rescue.

It resulted in threats of violence. Not Ellen's fault directly but an unintended and clear result.

All in all very sad.

Ellen does lots of good things for animals.

So does that rescue.

And the family thought they had a new dog, which the daughters, it is reported, seemed to love.

And Iggy, of course, is once again without a pack of his own. For the time being at least.