I'm sorry, but Ellen is not honest. When she got a dog from a rescue organization and filled out a form about the home it would live in (her home) and then gave it to her hairdresser, the organization took the dog back.
Remember this is the dog she gave away. So what did Ellen do? She went on her show and CRIED about the dog that she GAVE AWAY, and this organization that rescues animals had to deal with thousands of calls from the type of morons that think that Ellen's dancing is wacky good time entertainment.
She's a typically useless celebrity who feels entitled, and expected to have people care about a dog that she didn't care about herself. How many animals suffered or died because of her selfish response to this 'problem' and causing this agency to spend time and money on dealing with it? Maybe she placed the dog in a good home, but she broke the rules, got caught, and then felt offended that her celebrity wasn't enough for her to get away with it. Yes, the agency was partly responsible, and might have handled it differently, but she was completely selfish and did not care about the repercussions of her actions.
Yes this is off-topic, but it's one of three things I think of when I see her. The third is the way, when Elton John was on her show, she sat there at the piano while he sang some wretched version of some crusty old hit, and stared into his eyes with this worshipful expression. It creeped me out and I was seeing it on television. I'm surprised he didn't have a panic attack.