The New York Post is reporting that Ellen DeGeneres‘ doggy dealings have been a positive thing for the talk queen after all. Ratings for The Ellen DeGeneres Show were up almost 10 percent in the overnight Nielsens for the two days following her emotional breakdown over her adopted mutt, Iggy.

Those are just the preliminary numbers - the actual number of viewers may be much, much higher.

Update: The Huffington Post interviews Mutts and Moms for even more insight into the story.

People.com ran a story today detailing emails laid out by The Smoking Gun between Ellen DeGeneres, Portia De Rossi and Marina Baktis, one of the owners of Mutts and Moms.

The correspondence, reveals the couple’s initial love for dog, their decision to give him away, and the shock expressed by pet-rescue agency Mutts & Moms at that development.

A partner at Mutts & Moms, Marina Baktis, tells the couple that Iggy’s relocation constitutes “a betrayal of our trust” and a violation of the contract, to which de Rossi replies, “Your email is truly heartbreaking to many people.”

There is also one e-mail from DeGeneres’s hair stylist, Cheryl Marks, who pleads that after two weeks, Iggy is “bonded and loved by our family.” Baktis insists he must be returned.

So after reading the emails, we have to wonder, what happened that kept the adoption from happening!? Did Cheryl not return the dog as requested and this is what spurred Mutts and Moms to get Iggy themselves?

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.

We’ve been unable to get a comment from someone about the following but the latest speculation is that Mutts and Moms lost their license to operate as a non-profit organization a year ago. Does this mean they had no rights to take the dog back? The LAPD is now even saying they may have erred by getting involved.

We were emailed us this information about what is allegedly being reported at the California Secretary of State website:

Suspended: The California corporation has lost all rights and powers for failure to meet statutory filing requirements of either the Secretary of State’s office or the Franchise Tax Board. Information regarding the type of suspension can be obtained by requesting a status report. Fees and instructions for requesting a status report are included on the Business Entities Records Order Form. CA Sec of State.

ET Online reports that it is said the contract in question does not contain an age clause, another reason given by Mutts and Moms for taking back the dog. Their sources also tell the syndicated entertainment and news program that the family Ellen gave the dog to — her hairdresser, his wife and their two pre-teen daughters — did fill out an application online when the dog took up residence with them.

It was at that time the agency said they would come out to inspect their property as part of the adoption process. Instead, they reclaimed the dog and calling the police. As Mutts and Moms were officially registered as the owners by the chip, authorities turned over custody to them.

Read how it all started - HERE

People in Hollywood sounded off on the Ellen DeGeneres debacle now referred to as “Iggygate” in a Los Angeles Times article this morning and we were contacted yesterday to give our .02 on the matter and thankfully we were quoted correctly!

Read the article HERE.