After she broke down and wept on her TV show because a dog she didn't want to own was taken back into care, Ellen DeGeneres promised the world she'd never mention it ever again – a promise that must have lasted a good couple of days.

Returning to host her daytime TV show after the dog-based emotional trauma caused her to take a long weekend, Ellen DeGeneres yesterday revealed to anyone who cares that people should still keep adopting cats and dogs from pet adoption agencies despite her travails with them, but only so long as they learn from her mistakes and do a better job of secretly getting rid of the animals when they decide they don't want them any more. Ellen DeGeneres also defended her sobbing tantrum on the show, saying that she wished more people would openly cry – just like she does, like her hairdresser does and like Ellen's vet has done uncontrollably ever since she forced him to sleep with a recently-neutered dog that one time.

When Ellen DeGeneres started crying about her dog on-air last week, it was just about the only thing that anyone could talk about. To put it in perspective, how many headlines do you expect Alan Titchmarsh would get if he used his TV show to weep about a disabled swan? Hardly any, obviously, but that might just be because Alan Titchmarsh hasn't ever presented the Oscars or revealed himself to be a homosexual in the middle of his long-running early 1990s sitcom. Maybe he should think about that before he starts crying about swans on his show, the big bloody wimp.

Anyway, the fuss over Ellen DeGeneres' dog has died down now, thanks in part to Ellen's long weekend. Now nobody wants to burn down the animal shelters any more and Iggy The Dog has found a nice new home, as have his balls which Ellen paid to have removed a while ago. And thanks to the distance from the original event, Ellen DeGeneres can now use her TV show to take a clear-sighted look back at exactly what happened when she burst into tears in front of the whole wide world last week. Reuters reports:

After taking a long weekend to recover from the shaggy-dog tale that went too far, DeGeneres returned to her show on Tuesday saying the reaction to her crying on air had taken her totally by surprise, making headlines from Australia to England. "I have always cried since I was a little kid. I am a sensitive person, I cry. I cry at commercials, I cry at stories, I cry at anything sweet, I cry at babies," she said. "You don't want to keep in a good cry because then you get bloated … there is nothing wrong with having feelings and I think more people should cry."

And you know what? Ellen's completely right. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having feelings, unless they're the sort of feelings that make you have a giant blubbery meltdown on a TV show because you got sick of a dog after a couple of weeks and people tell off for giving it away. There's actually quite a lot wrong with having those sorts of feelings.

Having said that, though, Ellen DeGeneres did do well by quashing the animal home death threats by repeating that animal adoption agencies do a good job and inviting all kinds of animal adoption representatives onto her show to speak about their work. Thanks to Ellen DeGeneres, the world once again knows that there are millions of animals out there desperate for a kindhearted owner to take them home and cut their balls off. Thank you Ellen.

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