The Pasadena-based non-profit group at the center of the Ellen Dog Controversy has begun receiving death threats. Mutts and Moms Adoption Agency have received threats of death and arson after taking back Iggy, the dog who they allege was given away by Ellen and life partner Portia Di Rossi in a breach of contract. (Paging Chris Crocker: We’re going to need you to release a new You Tube Video entitled ‘Leave Ellen Alone!’)

Ellen and Portia gave Iggy to Ellen’s hairdresser and her hairdresser’s two daughters, after Iggy got into a number of spats with El’s cats. The dog had bonded with its new temporary owners, when Mutts and Moms took the dog away claiming the Emmy-winning talk show host had not followed the agency’s protocol.

“My life is being threatened, this is horrible. I rescue dogs. I can’t believe this,” Mutts & Mom co-founder Marina Baktis sobbed Tuesday night. And she isn’t the only one crying.

“I guess I signed a piece of paper that says if I can’t keep Iggy, it goes back to the rescue organization—which is not someone’s home, which is not a family,” a tearful Ellen said on her show on Tuesday. “Because I did it wrong, those people went and took that dog out of their home and took it away from those kids.”

“I feel totally responsible for it, and I’m so sorry. I’m begging them to give that dog back to that family. It’s not their fault. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have given the dog away,” she pleaded. “Just please give the dog back to those little girls.”

Well-that’s not going to happen. Marina has refused to hand Iggy back over to the family Ellen gave her to.

“No, that is not a consideration at this point, no. Not after the way we’ve been treated, no. We have been terrorized, it has been horrible.”

A grassroots email campaign set up via craigslist.com to boycott Mutts & Moms