The agency people were just on whatever show follows Olbermann. They were pretty adamant that they tried to work with DeGeneres saying that she needed to bring the dog in and they'd go through the process to try and work with her and that DeGeneres's publicist essentially tried to browbeat them into ignoring their rules and the contract everybody signed.

Who knows. I'm fine with just assuming that everybody involved (including the puppy and the 12 year old) are pricks.

"It's not like Ellen gave the dog to Michael Vick!"

~ one of the assistants in my office.

lol
:D

Visible mojo to the assistant!

I trying to picture a couple of Brussels Griffons tearing each other apart. It's sort of wrong.

Get 'em, Monkey Boy!

They agency could have easily handled this differently - and still can - by just saying that they reconsidered their rule and decided to judge the situation on a case by case basis rather then an arbitrary hard and fast rule. They can show off their website which has the dogs there - and then Ellen will give her a bunch of pet toys and pet food and such and sha-dang-dang. The kids get their dog back and everyone is happy.

I heard on the radio this morning that they'd already adopted the dog out to someone else. So maybe that's not even possible anymore.

I was watching MSN last night and the anchor, Dan Abrams, was initially skeptical of Ellen and on the side of the agency. Then, their attorney spoke. By the end of the interview, Abrams had obviously lost any sympathy for the agency simply because of the attorney's confrontational and inflammatory attitude. The attorney came across as a litigious, ambulance-chasing blowhard trying mightily to turn this into something more than what it is, and Abrams eventually just cut him off. They might want to rethink going with this guy- he's just going to piss people off and wind up making the agency look even worse.