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Ellen Degeneres: I try to save dogs and take them to shelters so that their owners can find them. It's because I have dogs, and I know I would be devasated if either ... damn, whare are their names? Oh yeah .... if either Bootsie or Lippy ... no, not Lippy ... Muffin. If either Bootsie or Muffin got lost.

I'll see stray dogs wandering in front of houses and they look so sad. I just feel compelled to do something to rescue them. Sometimes it's hard because they're tied on a leash on someone's front lawn, so you've got to untie it. Or worse, they're behind a fence, so you need wire cutters (which I always have in my car) to get them out. "C'mon, girl. I'll rescue you and find your owner."

Just last week I was driving when I saw this skinny looking stray dog out on the street. So I stopped, got out, and tried to coax the dog into my car so that I could take it to a rescue shelter. All these people were looking at me like I was crazy. Well, I'm kind of used to that that, so I continued, "Here boy, here Scrappy." When I don't know an animal's name, I always assume that it's Scrappy - even though I've never been right.

Then I saw why people were staring at me. It wasn't a dog, it was a coyote (who oddly enough was called Scrappy).

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At 6'4" and 220lbs., the Supernatural star sometimes scares the stray dogs in South Central L.A. that he coaxes off the streets: "It takes me longer to earn a dog's trust because sometimes they see me as a threat."

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Ya'll, they need to team up and 'rescue' dogs together. She'll be there with her wire cutters cutting the fence - rescuing a dog - and he'll be the look out. Sometimes she'll say to him in a sort of snippy voice, 'Why am I always the one who has to cut the fences or untie them?' And he'll sigh, look down at the ground and say, 'Because they see me as a threat.' She'll go back to cutting and mutter, 'Whatever, pretty boy.'

It needs to happen.