Does Ellen DeGeneres Have a Habit of Giving Away Dogs?

The New York Post is reporting that Ellen DeGeneres‘ latest doggy debacle wasn’t the first time she’d passed along a pup she’d adopted.

A Los Angeles producer, Kerri Randles, says she gave DeGeneres a male mutt named Stormy two years ago who the talk-show queen quickly gave away to a member of her staff less than two months later.

She may have had it for much less time than that. I only say two months because that’s when I called to check on the dog and found out she no longer had it. I was totally shocked. I thought she was out of her mind.”

DeGeneres may have passed along several other dogs over the years. Howard Stern said on his Sirius show that he’d heard she had done this nine times before. Joking maybe? Who knows.

Viewers were shocked Tuesday when DeGeneres tearfully told her viewers that the Mutts & Moms agency had gone to her hairdresser’s house and confiscated the dog Ellen had adopted from the stylist. Mutts & Moms said she had signed a contract agreeing to return the dog only to the agency if she no longer wanted to care for it.

Randles said DeGeneres seemed a perfect pet owner at first, but she quickly discovered the daytime TV hostess was “neurotic and crazy.”

When Randles took Stormy to NBC studios to meet DeGeneres, she was “drilled” for four hours by the star, her assistants and the crew.

“Everyone on the show and in her entourage got themselves all involved,” Randles told Page Six’s Marianne Garvey. “They were all coming into the dressing room, playing with the dog as if it were a new extension of Ellen.”

DeGeneres finally decided to keep the dog for a few nights to see if he’d fit into her home. She suggested that Randles take the dressing room next door to “tell the dog privately that she’d be going home with Ellen.”

“I told her I’d already had a talk with the dog. She didn’t get my jokes,” said Randles.

When she called to check on the pup a few days later, DeGeneres told her she’d decided to keep it. “She acted like she was keeping it for life,” Randles recalled.

DeGeneres’ rep did not return calls by the NY Post.

Interesting! The last we checked/read, Ellen had two dogs, Pig and Wolf – has anyone heard her mention these two dogs on her show? Did she mention how well (or not) Iggy got along with her dogs? If what’s been reported is true, does this change your opinion about the Mutts and Moms situation?

Update: According to Ellen’s publicist, Kelly Bush, the comedienne was told Stormy was living in a car at the time Ellen rescued him. Bush claims Ellen offered to find a safe home for the dog. The following day, Ellen helped place Stormy in a better home.