October 19, 2007 - 8:22 AM.

Oh for god's sake Ellen you did this.

I have had to stop reading blogs completely for a while over this ridiculous "Ellen and the dog" thing. She made a big mistake, she had no idea what she was doing putting an unsuitable dog in a family situation (nor had she any right to according to her contract), and then when there is emotional fallout from children because of HER terrible mistake -- she uses her platform to rain down the fury of the masses on the poor woman who IS responsible for the dog! Oh, poor child who had "her" pet taken away! It must be the evil dog-rescue-lady's fault! Ellen is so sweet she would never make an emotional misstep, oh no not her -- why the lady who rescues dogs from abuse and abandonment must be the villian, for we must have a villian! Burn her!

Good crapping christ. How can I NOT feel for the child, for crying in the night I have one myself. But the rescue lady is LIABLE for that dog, and is a dog-homing professional. Just because Ellen is very sorry that she fucked up, does not remove the fact that she did so, and it DEFINITELY does not change the fact that she acted like a tool by using TV to talk about this private matter. Level playing field and all that. Everybody who even passably enjoys her comedy will naturally side with her, and everybody who has no idea of the complexities of dog adoption liability jumps on the idea that a child's heartbreak = a villian inflicting the heartbreak.

No villians here. Even Ellen, in making these very bad mistakes, is not a villian. She's just very sorry about something she now can't fix. And I think she has to take responsibility for the fact that she was the one who set the unfixableness of it in motion.

I can't believe I have now joined the chorus of people blogging about this. Literally can't open a US blog without someone talking about it. Ugh.

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