Dog lovers understand intense passions in DeGeneres’ Iggy drama BY JOCELYN NOVECK The Associated Press
NEW YORK — It’s been a harrowing week for Ellen DeGeneres. First the talk-show host wept profusely on TV over her dog-adoption drama. Then she had to beg people to stop making threats against the adoption agency. Finally, she canceled two tapings of her show to take a rest from the stress. Public weeping? Threats? All this, over a Brussels Griffon terrier mix named Iggy? However one feels about the facts of the case, the essential passions at play ring true to many who have dogs and love them — just as they likely seem way over the top to those who don’t. “Oh, I understand the intense emotions,” said Merrill Markoe, owner of four dogs, author, humorist and original head writer for David Letterman’s show. She added, though, that she didn’t quite see why DeGeneres would need to make them so public: “It wouldn’t be my inclination to go in front of cameras and announce something personal like that.” Markoe says the public may not realize that dog rescue organizations, like the one tussling with De-Generes, have rules because they’re so selective about who gets to take care of their dogs. “They have their rules, and their contracts,” she said. “If you want their dog, you play along. They have the dog’s best interests at heart.” For Markoe, her dogs are, in essence, “life at its core element.” “They’re all naive good intentions,” she says. “They’re totally non-judgmental. I’m so popular amongst them! They love me with no stipulations,” she says. “It’s really very touching.” When Latanya Wilkinson, a professional dog walker, is feeling sad, her dog knows it — he comes and puts his head on her lap. “Animals bring out a different side of a person,” says Wilkinson, who walks dogs seven days a week and runs her own agency, spoil-a-pet.com, in Brooklyn “It’s the unconditional love. It doesn’t matter what you look like in the morning. It’s hard to explain it to someone else. I have friends who don’t quite get it.”
She should buy another dog for her housekeeper.....this is nothing more than narcistic behavior...."look at me I'm soooooo upset...and I was trying to help my hired help".....boo-hoo......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I am a dog lover, but Ellen clearly took a nose dive over the edge. I think she needs a man!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I am truly a dog lover. (just look at my avitar) That's my girl! And including myself, we have to remind ourselves that they are "dogs". They are not human beings. I some cases, I see some dog owners trying to humanize their animal. I personally think that is a disservice to the animal and in extreme cases it's cruel.
I am truly a dog lover. (just look at my avitar) That's my girl! And including myself, we have to remind ourselves that they are "dogs". They are not human beings. I some cases, I see some dog owners trying to humanize their animal. I personally think that is a disservice to the animal and in extreme cases it's cruel.
I am also a dog lover, My baby is a yellow lab. I was in Pet Smart the other day and saw the rows of clothing and Halloween costumes. I have serious issues with seeing a dog dressed in a tootoo. I really have to imagine they do too. JoAnn is right, its hard but you have to remember they are dogs. Mine is going blind and I want to hug her and tell her how sorry I am, but she IS a dog. She doesn't get it. She makes out just fine as long as I let her do things on her own. She can still catch the frisbee, my husband and I figure she hears it or senses it. I try not to rearrange the furniture, unless she makes me mad
Carl Strock THE VIEW FROM HERE Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail at carlstrock@dailygazette.com. Own a dog? Better check insurance Dog-bite claims cost the insurance industry $387 million last year, according to the Insurance Information Institute, and I hope that little statistic will be taken into account the next time we are urged to “rescue” or “adopt” one of these animals. It’s all well and good to have an animal whimper and whine when you leave the house and jump all over you in delight when you return, but when you factor in the premiums on your homeowner’s liability policy, the boost to your sense of self-worth might not be worth it. The average payout for a dogbite claim was $24,461, not a small amount when you figure that 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year, nearly 900,000 of whom require medical care of some sort and 31,000 of whom need reconstructive surgery. Since more than half of all bites occur on the dog-owner’s property, the industry that sells homeowners’ policies is understandably interested. Nothing is said about a concern of my own, which is dogs riding as privileged passengers in cars, and by privileged I mean not just in the back seat panting out the window, and not just in the front seat looking attentively ahead like a member of the species Homo sapiens but actually on the driver’s lap! How often do you see that? A human at the wheel with a dog squirming around, possibly licking his or her face. I hear plenty of complaints about texting and gabbing on cellphones while driving; I hear nothing about dogs on drivers’ laps. You would think the insurance industry, at least, with its unsentimental focus on risk, would take an interest, but I’m still waiting. ..................>>>>................>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1
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