Ellen-good intentions, bad judgement

Chasey_Lane

Chasey_Lane

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T & Heather were discussing this on the show this morning. Their view is that when you sign a contract for an animal, you are "leasing" it for the length of its life. The animal is never yours.

Also, a lady called the show and said that she had found a dog at Berts, took it to the Waldorf Humane Society and adopted the dog when the owner could not be found. A month later the lady was walking the dog and a gentleman and his little boy approached her and "his" dog. The lady gave the dog back. How sad!!
 
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Woodyspda said:
DeGeneres under fire for giving away dog - Yahoo! TV

On one side I think she did nothing wrong and some rescues are a bit overzealous.

On the other, I think about how many people adopt animals only to return them or neglect them.

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I agree, but I don't think it was a good idea for the rescue to take the dog back. It seems it would have been just as easy to transfer the adoption from DeGeneres to her hairdresser's family. The dog was safe, ED was receiving daily updates and she had spent an inordinant amount of money to ensure the dog was trained and vetted. Just seems like an ignorant way of handling the whole thing by the rescue considering the whole idea behind rescue is to ensure that the animals are in a safe environment. What was the point, to prove a contract is a contract! Does this mean I should go dump the 5 fosters I was left with because the rescue I worked with refused to take them back when I chose not to work with them any longer? Of course not, the paperwork may say they are owned by the rescue, but I am not going to risk their going back to the shelter because the rescue doesn't stand up to its end of the bargain! JMO (tainted though it may be)!
 
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Woodyspda

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I understand what you are saying.

I agree that the shelter could have handled things differently. Hence my overzealous comment above. But we don't know what their resources are.

The most recent thing I've read is that the shelter is getting death threats similar to those that an abortion clinic would get. Not sure why Ellen wouldn't just hire a good lawyer to work things out amicably.

I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this over the next few weeks.
 
krazd_kat

krazd_kat

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I read that the rescue group is getting threats and that's too bad, but personally I do think it was handled wrong (of course none of us really knows what her hair dressers family/home is like). Ellen is an animal lover and I can't imagine that she would have given the dog to a home that wasn't a good home.

According to what I read the group took it back because they won't adopt to children under (15 maybe?) and these kids were like 11 and 12 (my memory sucks) and that they are sticking to that. IMHO, they should have gone and talked to the family and seen for themselves how it was working and if it was a great home (other than their age requirements) they should have transfered the paperwork and left things alone.

Unfortunately this story gives more "fire" to the anti-adoption foes.

Aps - The whole concept of "adopting" an animal is ridiculous.
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When an animal is adopted, the group is taking responsibility for that animal the rest of it's life. Not that we are Nazis checking on you, but say in 5 years, you can't keep that animal... they call us and guess what... we make room to take that animal back, we are guaranteeing that animal will never see a shelter again (so long as the owner contacts us). This only works with a good rescue group - like adopters, not all groups are the same.
 
clevalley

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Woodyspda said:
DeGeneres under fire for giving away dog - Yahoo! TV

On one side I think she did nothing wrong and some rescues are a bit overzealous.

On the other, I think about how many people adopt animals only to return them or neglect them.

Bottom line is: READ BEFORE YOU SIGN
Click to expand...

Wow - She is obviously ridden with guilt, she feels responsible for a screw-up. Clearly she tried and spent a lot of money to 'fit' this pet into her home; it is not like she got tired of it and did not want the responsibility so she gave it away...

Yes - maybe she should have read the contract fully and understood the rules of adoption, but the rescue is being overzealous.

Obviously the rescue could have done a survey of the home on the spot and deemed if the home was suitable for the puppy, per there guidelines.
 
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