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Also try: Ellen DeGeneres
Also try: Iggy
Ellen DeGeneres
- "In my heart, in my head, I am thinking, why would I give [the agency] one more dog to try to place when they're all in cages?...I am providing a good home for it, a loving home." (from Us Magazine)
- "I shouldn't have given the dog away. Just please give the dog back to those little girls." (from The Associated Press)
- “It's never been about the dog, it's about punishing me." (from Us Magazine)
- "I kept saying, 'If you want to be mad at me, be mad at me, but don't take it out on the family. Don't take it out on the dog.'" (from TMZ)
- "Iggy's health and safety has always been No. 1." (from USA Today)
- "It's gotten out of hand. The people that have Iggy or had Iggy, I don't know, are receiving death threats, I am told, and that is not OK." (from Reuters)
Marina Baktis
- "People are being so cruel to us. People are sending things that say ‘Nazi’ and words that I can’t repeat." (from Celebrity Dog Watcher)
- "I don't feel like I've done anything wrong, and I feel like the way things have happened now, there's no resolving it." (from Access Hollywood)
- "If Ellen wants to start her own rescue group then she can decide where the dogs go." (from In Spin)
- "My life is being threatened; this is horrible. I rescue dogs. I can't believe this." (from USA Today)
Attorneys
- "So people need to understand when you enter a binding legal agreement that you can’t just go, ‘And here you go, I don’t want you.‘" (Keith A. Fink in Celebrity Dog Watcher)
- "[Batkis] doesn't think this is the type of family that should have the dog." (Keith A. Fink in In Spin)
- "She's notorious for rescuing animals and finding them good homes. She found the dog a wonderful, wonderful home.” (Kelly Bush in Celebrity Dog Watcher about Ellen)