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Day three of IggyGate, the talk show host vs. pet rescuer clash that has divided a nation, brought a declaration of hope from distraught, Iggy-trafficking middlewoman Ellen DeGeneres. From the AP report:

Ellen DeGeneres says she's done talking about her canine dilemma and is pleading for calm, saying on her show that the controversy surrounding an adopted dog has "gotten out of hand."

During a Wednesday taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," to be aired Thursday, DeGeneres told viewers she wouldn't speak again until the dog, Iggy, is returned to DeGeneres' hairdresser and the woman's young daughters. [...]

"Let me just say this, it's gotten out of hand," DeGeneres said on the segment to air Thursday. "I want nothing, nothing more than that dog returned to that family. But you don't resort to violence. So anybody out there, please stop that. Please don't threaten or do whatever."

DeGeneres's pledge to remain silent on the matter until she gets what she wants, coupled with her stirring plea for peace between warring pet-swapping and contract-following factions, will hopefully be enough to halt the threats or whatever that have made life a living hell for stickler humane society workers in the days since the controversy erupted, leaving them free to go about their pet rescuing duties without the fear of being dragged out from behind their service desks by an angry, Ellen mask-wearing mob who'd think nothing of pummeling them half-to-death with a nearby alley cat.