Ellen DeGeneres Has Given Away Dogs Before

Mandy @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, October 22, 2007

Ellen DeGeneres Has Given Away Dogs Before - PIC

Remember the whole drama with Ellen DeGeneres and the dog Iggy? A quick recap: Ellen gave Iggy to her hairdresser’s family without telling the shelter, so the shelter went to the hairdresser’s house and took the dog back; Ellen cried on TV. Now reports are surfacing that Ellen DeGeneres seems to give dogs away more frequently than the average pet lover.

A Los Angeles producer, Kerri Randles, says she gave Ellen a dog named Stormy two years ago, and later found out that Ellen had re-gifted the mutt to a member of her staff less than two months after receiving him.

“She may have had it for much less time than that. I only say two months because that’s when I called to check on the dog and found out she no longer had it,” Randles said. “I was totally shocked. I thought she was out of her mind.”

And Howard Stern says that there are several other dogs who have met the same fate. On his Sirius show he stated that he’d heard Ellen had done this nine times before.

Randles said Ellen seemed like a perfect pet owner at first, but then discovered that she was “neurotic and crazy.” Apparently Ellen and her staff “drilled” Randles for four hours before accepting the dog.

“Everyone on the show and in her entourage got themselves all involved. They were all coming into the dressing room, playing with the dog as if it were a new extension of Ellen.”

DeGeneres finally decided to keep the dog for a few nights to see if he’d fit into her home. She suggested that Randles take the dressing room next door to “tell the dog privately that she’d be going home with Ellen.”

“I told her I’d already had a talk with the dog. She didn’t get my jokes,” said Randles.

Why would Ellen keep adopting dogs and then giving them away? It’s like what happens to me everytime I go to the grocery store. Those brownies look so good in the bakery, but they’re awful when I take them home. And yet somehow I keep buying the brownies, never learning my lesson. Ellen, just face it, maybe you don’t like having a dog.

What others are saying:

dlisted says, “See Ellen this is what happens! You start crying about something and s–t that you’ve done from your past is going to creep up on you.”

Best Week Ever says, “Reports are surfacing that Ellen Degeneres has, in fact, adopted and given away a different dog only a couple of years ago. And her name was Anne Heche. (Zing!)”

Mollygood says, “DeGeneres Either Hates Dogs or Loves Giving”

Source: “‘ELLEN DUMPED MY DOG, TOO’” [Page Six]
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