{"id":960,"date":"2007-10-17T18:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2007-12-06T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T22:12:41","slug":"another-ellen-degeneres-dog-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Another Ellen DeGeneres Dog Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 3, 2005, I published this quote from my friend Rob Spallone about his first-hand 2004 experience with Ellen and his ex-friend Mike Davis (when Rob was living with Mike after Rob&#8217;s divorce): &quot;Ellen DeGeneres lives next door. Big deal. She            came over once to borrow the dog. I said, are you a retard, lady? You            want to take the guy&#8217;s dog?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Davis lived next to Ellen on Mulholland Drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-ellen18oct18,0,4603856.story?coll=la-home-center\">Here&#8217;s the latest DeGeneres dog story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I call Rob Spallone Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Rob: &quot;So Mike leaves the house. His dog never left the property. Ever. He&#8217;d never been out of the compound. Mike goes to get his hair cut. Two hours later, he calls. &#8216;Rob, did you leave the house?&#8217; &#8216;No. Why?&#8217; &#8216;The dog got out.&#8217; &#8216;How did the dog get out? I didn&#8217;t go nowhere. He must&#8217;ve got out when you left.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ellen DeGeneres was our neighbor. We didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ellen called the number on the dog&#8217;s necklace and asked Mike to pick up the dog. I go to her house. She&#8217;d bought the dog a bag, all toys, everything. She goes, &#8216;Can I keep the dog?&#8217; &#8216;What are you talking about? Are you crazy?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She gets the dog.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ten o&#8217;clock at night, I answer the phone. &#8216;Hi Mike, this is Ellen from across the street.&#8217; &#8216;Ellen across the street? What do you want? To take the dog?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She goes, &#8216;Do you think the dog can come over tomorrow for a playdate?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I said, &#8216;Ellen, do you have a dog?&#8217; She said no.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At eight o&#8217;clock the next morning, the front gate rings. It&#8217;s her. &#8216;Hi, it&#8217;s Ellen. Can you bring the dog down?&#8217; I said, &#8216;No. You come up here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She comes up. She walks in. I said, &#8216;You&#8217;re sick. How do you tell someone you want their dog? A dog is a man&#8217;s best friend.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She asks, &#8216;Can I take the dog?&#8217; I go, &#8216;Yes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She takes the dog. As she gets to the door, she turns around and goes, &#8216;Does he get along with cats?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I said, &#8216;Lady, he&#8217;s never left the property. How would I know?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;An hour later she calls. &#8216;He doesn&#8217;t like my cats. I&#8217;m bringing him back.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 3, 2005, I published this quote from my friend Rob Spallone about his first-hand 2004 experience with Ellen and his ex-friend Mike Davis (when Rob was living with Mike after Rob&#8217;s divorce): &quot;Ellen DeGeneres lives next door. Big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellen-degeneres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}