What does it mean that I burst out laughing when she started begging?

Holy crap! She's crazy....I love animals...but that's the kind of emotion you have when something awful happens to a family member or close friend. The reason the rescue place took the dog is because those people are bat sh!t crazy too and put animals on the same level as humans. Actually some of them put animal life on a level higher then human life. They believe that losing a pet is equal to losing a child.

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There are a lot of crazy bat shit people out there. I'm one of them.

I had a cat. I'll give him a name for ease of explanation: his name was Tut. He was a very special hybrid cat, a savannah cat. He could open all my doors and drawers, he could open the refridgerator and the meat droor. He was smart, he looked like a miniature cheetah, and he was passionately loyal (he jumped into my arms when I came home at night). He was friendly to most people, but he vehemently hated the vet, and would have slit any of the vet staff bloody if I hadn't been there. While visiting my mom's house, he ate a lily flower petal, and I didn't know it then, but lilies are deathly poisonous to cats. He didn't pee the whole way home in the car (hours) and he was low energy, so I called my vet, and they told me to come in (this was very late at night). They made me leave him and I went home and slept.

Four hours later, they called me and told me Tut was dying because his kidneys were shutting down and he still hadn't peed. I asked if I could come in and be with him. they said it was against policy because he needed to be in the back area with his IV and all, but I said he was always very affected by his people, and eventually they let me. I threw on clothes and went to the vet. They let me into the back area, where Tut was very happy to see me and purred and licked me (he always groomed me constantly). I tricked him by putting some tuna juice on my body where he wanted to groom me, so he got a little nutrition.

Once I was there, they couldn't get me out. At first it was because he was supposed to die any minute, but about 20 hours after I got there, he peed. No one could handle him but me, and he would rip all of his stuff out if I left, and keeping him sedated was even worse for his kidneys, so they let me stay. I was worried that if I left they would put him back in restraints and he would be terrified, so I stayed at the vet for a week solid. I mean, I wore the same underwear for a week. Friends brought me food; colleagues did my work. I force fed Tut, I gave him all his shots, I kept him calm. The vet staff brought people by just to see what he did when I left the room to hit the bathroom and such (he would twist his head and stare behind him at the door I had gone through until I came back). Eventually I convinced him to eat a bit on his own, and he started getting better. He was so beautiful, and so clearly affected by my being there that they let me break the rules. Tut became a local celebrity to them. (I gave them all gift certificates for the local pizza parlor when I left the vet with Tut.)

Anyway, Tut survived. He was the cover story for a vet magazine for surviving after having had such high creatinine levels. And I loved him and it was worth it. So count me as crazy bat shit. (And yeah I know that was too tangential and long for anyone to read to the end of, but I see no reason not to hit submit...)

Ok, I had a wonderful snarky comment all ready for this post, but damn, oxdottir...I can't!

Great story.

My apologies in advance but
UGHHH KILL ME NOW

I have absolutely no sympathy for Ellen in this case. I am a crazy bat-shit animal person (like oxdottir) but I've also worked with rescue, and agency rules are in place for a reason, for the best interests of the animal involved.

A) If you follow the timelines, Ellen and her partner had the dog for less than a month before giving up on it. I don't care if they spent $50,000 in "therapy," that's too short of a time for a puppy to get acclimated to a new environment. And... it's a PUPPY. Puppies are rambunxious. Learn to deal if you want to adopt one.

B) She signed a contract that if she was unable to keep the puppy, she would return it to the agency. This is pretty routine, and lots of rescue groups have similar clauses in their contracts. They want to make sure that people aren't adopting their animals only to rehome them with families that wouldn't have otherwise passed the application process - like her hairdresser's family. The agency she adopted from has a policy that they won't adopt to families with kids under 14. The hairdressers kids are 11 and 12, so they wouldn't have passed the application process. She violated the terms of the contract, and the dog was confiscated per the contract terms.

Later on, the rescue group started getting death threats and arson threats by Ellen's fans. Them're all crazies.

And now, please, someone shoot me in the head for knowing so much about this situation.

Whoa.....bout to hit the big 600......AGAIN!!!!

Atara - you either didn't read or completely missed the point of oxdottir's comment. Rules are fine, but the agency seems to have been too hung up on its own rules to look at the situation rationally. I've known a lot of folks that work in rescue and shelters, and this is not uncommon. The rules become more important than the animals.

Grimm - are you a parent? Have you lost a child? If not, then STFU!

I haven't even watched the video, but oxdottir's comment made my eyes well up a little. yeah, me, the rat bastard that inflicted VS with the Terrible collective/channel.

jonny wrote:

Grimm - are you a parent? Have you lost a child? If not, then STFU!

Why in the hell would she go on like that on tv? Buy the kids a new puppy to make up for it. The kids will be fine. What flaky organization doesn't let families with kids adopt pets?

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I screwed up. I gave the wrong code. I have good code now, but of course I can't change it because I clicked too many times. I will redead it, and try to keep track and refix it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=za76HcGordY
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