VIDEO: Ellen DeGeneres breaks down over a dog on her show

Ellen DeGeneres is hoping the power of television and celebrity will give a little dog some special treatment. During today’s show, DeGeneres breaks down and sobs as she tells the audience about her effort to find a good home for a dog she adopted.

Here’s the story: last month, Ellen and her partner, Portia de Rossi, adopted a Brussels Griffon mix called Iggy. But Iggy didn’t get along with the cats, so Ellen gave him to her hairdresser. It turns out, she violated the rescue/adoption agreement with Mutts and Moms, which promptly took Iggy away from the hairdresser. On today’s show, Ellen pleads with the agency to return the dog to the hairdresser whose two daughters had become attached to Iggy.