Paris Hilton Admits Running Secret Chihuahua Mill Out Of Her Home To An Appalled Ellen DeGeneres

While it’s true we’ve rarely seen Harvard’s Woman of the Year Paris Hilton far from at least one member of her four-legged menagerie, had you asked us to guess just how many animals co-exist with her behind the walls of her gated estate, we would have probably thrown out a number like a half-dozen: a chihuahua, a kinkajou, a billy goat, couple ducks, maybe an emu for good measure. Never, however, in our wildest, animal-exploiting, poopie-bedsheet dreams, did the following occur to us:

That Hilton might be harbouring–you may need to sit down for this–no fewer than 17 dogs. That was the number she offered a clearly mortified Ellen DeGeneres, whose commitment to controlling the L.A. animal population is the stuff of legend. (Wait a second–did she just say 17 dogs? We believe she did.) Hearing the outrageous admission that her own laziness has transformed her home into a berserk chihuaha breeding colony, we’re now forced to reconsider Hilton’s last visit to Ellen’s show to dispel all those “ridiculous” rumors, and question if the heiress isn’t perhaps hoarding a drunk-elephant petting zoo in her back yard after all.

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