 So I know a lot of us have had our own opinions about the brook hout situation with her dog as well as a linnity over on twitch with her cat. But one of my buddies is a veterinarian so I invited him over as a guest to kind of discuss this whole situation. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I try to do is take different topics going on in the youtube community try to see what lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So in case you missed it I did a video about the brook hout situation already but then like my wheels were turning I'm like yo I need to hit up my boy Dr. Alex. So Dr. Alex he runs a youtube channel called our pets health he also has an instagram he does a podcast like this this dude loves animals and like if this is loving animals for Dr. Alex like right here is like educating people on how to take care of their animals all right. So if you have a pet like please go follow this man like he is putting in so much work to help educate people so they can take better care of their pets and he like loves answering questions all sorts of stuff but Alex you know I love you everybody go check him out but anyways yeah um I reached out to him and asked him if you want to do a guest video. Dr. Alex actually did a guest video for me a while back talking about veterinarian mental health because I was actually surprised by this as well the suicide rates for veterinarians is actually really high so if you want to check out the previous video that he did over on my channel I'll link it up in the info card and I'll also put it at the end screen all right but anyways I'm going to shut my mouth and here is Dr. Alex. Hi I'm Dr. Alex and I've been a veterinarian since 2006 and so Chris invited me over to talk about the situation with Brooke and her dog as well as Illiniti throwing her cat over her head. Now to start with I don't know these people I don't watch their channel I don't have a back history of anything so I'm just going to comment really on what I've seen. So I'm going to start with Brooke and there's been a lot of commentary a lot of outrage saying that she's a serious animal abuser that her dog should be taken away from her and that her youtube channel should be shut down and you know she's just a terrible terrible person. Now is what she did right well no absolutely not and I certainly don't condone the way that she treated her dog but I think we do need to get into things into perspective is this a case of severe animal abuse no it's not she's got a big dog big dogs do need disciplining what she did wasn't disciplining her dog effectively it wasn't a part of a training program and she admits in her apology video that you know she she needs to take her dog to training she needs to learn better techniques because what she did and what was wrong is that she lost her temper so she lost her temper she she hit the dog with the flat of her hand now this is a big dog like I say if you've ever seen dogs just playing rough and tumble you know what she did is absolutely nothing that's going to hurt her dog it's going to cause its any her any distress and also we know the dog it kept coming back for attention her dog hasn't been emotionally harmed this isn't something that's been going on for a long time her dog isn't cowering at her raised voices keep coming back all her dog wants his attention it's just a not very well trained dog so after that initial kind of push down and hit with the flat of her hand you know she moves out to scream we don't see what happens there's a little bit of a kerfuffle by the sounds of things but we don't see what happens what happens next is that you know she's trying to do a piece to camera the dog again just wants to come up just want some attention want some affection and she kind of grabs a dog pins it down kind of shouts clearly in its face it sounds like she's spitting but she says categorically that she did not spit at her dog and you know i've certainly known a lot of owners to make all kinds of different noises at their dog to try and kind of make them listen so it's certainly possible that's all that she was doing we didn't see her spit so it's just pure speculation but again she's just lost her temper so that's not an effective way to train her dog to stop her dog coming up to her to try and lick her to try and get her attention and then at the very end again the dog is coming back wanting to get attention so her dog's not emotionally distressed it's not terrified it's not you know rolling on its back it's not got its tail tucked between its legs or its ears flat to say that the dog isn't any distressed it's just wanting attention from from its owner which is obviously understandable and what most dogs want and again she just pushes the dog and then it goes out of shot you kind of see a reflection in the tv but you know it's really not clear what happens so again anything else is just speculation but the dog and all the time really is just showing signs of a happy dog who wants attention from the owner now if you've got a big dog then we need to know how to control it so i think the first thing is that well Brooke lost her temper and she didn't behave very appropriately at that point in time but the second big point is that clearly this dog hasn't had the training that it's that it needs if we bring a dog into our life then we need to train it appropriately we need to be able to control it and that's especially important when we've got a big dog now if we've got a big dog that's that's being quite bold and quite physical then we do need to be firm with it but there are ways of doing that and doing that effectively and doing that humanely that don't involve hitting punching kicking you know kind of pinning down forcefully all that kind of thing and those are things that we've actually seen popular tv dog trainers do on primetime tv so you know let's get that into perspective what Brooke did is nothing compared to what's been on primetime tv so i want to move on to the situation now with alinity and there's a few different clips that i've seen so the first one is her cat is walking in front of her in front of a screen on a keyboard whatever and she just picks it up and she throws it over ahead now you know that is wrong on a whole nother level you know where did the cat land i've got no idea you know cats always land on their feet and i'm sure it probably did but that is just wrong you know on so many levels if you don't want your cat walking in front of you you know if you don't want your cat in your video with you i've locked my cats out of my room i'm not getting angry at them if i've forgotten to shut them away while i'm filming my youtube videos and they then come and they want affection you know that's on me so that's the first thing but then there's been a couple of other clips that i've seen so the first was a clip of her putting a big sticker onto her cat's head finding it hilarious that the cat was there it was kind of carrying away on the chair it was hating every second of that and yet alinity was just kind of cracking up she thought it was hilarious and then the worst thing was she was drinking some spirit and she then gets her cat to lick her mouth and gives her a little bit of spirit that way and unfortunately you know understandably the cat absolutely hates it you know that's not something that we should be doing we should never be giving alcohol to our pets we should never be giving strong spirits to our pet and we shouldn't find that situation hilarious if you're doing things like that repeatedly then you are not fit to own animals you know full stop i don't believe that that is ever appropriate doing anything like that we don't ever prank our pets you know you would never i'm going to do something like that to a child to a toddler and go oh it was only joking no that would be child abuse and yeah i think we are bordering on animal abuse in those situations especially as it's repeated episodes she's not losing her temper although losing your temper doesn't make any form of abuse acceptable by any stretch but she's repeatedly done things to her pets that you know are negative things and and yet she's finding them funny and she's doing them nonetheless when she's kind of otherwise level headed and i think it is important that we talk about animal abuse because well for one no animals deserve to be abused but for two there's a very clear link between animal abuse and child abuse and domestic abuse situations and i think from my point of view as a vet it's something that i'm very aware of actually every single vet in new zealand was sent a booklet highlighting the link between animal abuse situations and human abuse and that gave us a flow chart of what we should do if we should suspect that who we need to contact and why that's important so it's something that's very you know it's a very important subject not just for our pets but also for other people in that person's in that person's life so should brook have her dog taken away from her well no i don't think she should she absolutely needs to learn to control her temper she shouldn't lose her temper at her dog doing anything like that is counterproductive it's not going to teach her dog anything she also needs to train her dog and her dog's behavior and and its lack of training is absolutely on her now she seems to be aware of that in her apology um tweet that i saw yeah she she acknowledges that she needs to get better training for her dog and she needs to have better strategies to cope to train her dog and better techniques to use should her dog get taken away no because what's the reality there is that the dog is going to be taken away it's going to be put in a shelter and 25 percent of dogs that go into shelter get euthanized something like that so you know is that what you think that this dog deserves no absolutely not this dog is clearly um clearly loved if you look at her other videos she gets bought lots of things you know she clearly don't sonnet most of the time so you know it's also not showing any sign of being kind of being scared cowering to the owner all all the dog wanted was attention and that's not a sign of a dog who's emotionally distressed with alinity you know that's much more serious in my mind and i think that's certainly something that the relevant authorities should look into because i don't think any of her behavior is appropriate and i worry that she's actually going out and doing those things on purpose to her animal while or you know even planning to do that to her pets um and you know that is just not acceptable so anyway that's my thoughts on these subjects i'm sure chris is going to jump on here with a lot of other lessons that you guys can learn and takeaways from our own point of view maybe managing our anger um maybe you know being very mindful of the fact that if you see someone abusing animals then we need to be aware that that could be a marker for domestic abuse situations but you know until next time take care yes so thank you dr alex for coming over here and doing that lovely guest spot and like there's a lot of interesting things that came up and also don't forget down in the description down in the pinned comment as well as at the end screen all the links to dr alex's social media all right but anyways like i found this really interesting because obviously you know i'm a pet owner i have my beautiful cat maya and then we have trissons cat Wyatt you know and yeah like it was interesting hearing him talk about the brook house situation because a lot of us i think when looking at the brook house situation compared to alinity it would almost look like what brook house was doing was worse maybe that's just me you can let me know down in the comments below but anyways like a lot of you who've been following my channel you know that i'm really against cancel culture i believe in forgiveness and everything and much like dr alex like nothing she did is excusable but you know her temper got out of control she doesn't um have the proper methods and tools to train this dog but she it sounds like she is learning that now but it was good hearing from dr alex like yo this dog is going to be okay i think the most important takeaway from what dr alex said about the brook house situation is most dogs who end up going to the pound are going to get euthanized right and that's very important to think about it like i you know as a father i'm often relating you know animals and children and things like that and when we're looking at you know like abuse of children like is it better for this child to be stripped away from their parents and put into the foster care system where we know many people you know don't live the best lives in that foster care system but anyways if you watch my last video about brook house i talk a lot about about like this is why we have to keep our mental health in check so we don't take out our anger on our pets on our children and everything was also interesting hearing dr alex talking about the correlation between animal abuse and domestic violence and i hope you were all paying attention to that now the alinity situation and if any of you have been paying attention on twitter or things going on with twitch there's a lot of uproar right now about how twitch kind of treats female streamers different than male streamers and when dr alex was talking about the way alinity treats her cats that's what i found interesting as well as very troubling and it made sense what dr alex was saying like what alinity does to her pets it's premeditated it's planned out right this wasn't just her losing control of her emotions this is how she treats her pets so in my last video i mentioned like you know we don't really know what brook house does you know when she's off camera and i think dr alex had some good explanation as it seems like brook house does you know treat that dog with a lot of love and kindness even off camera because there would be certain cues that the animal was being abused on a regular basis but then we see alinity she does these things premeditated for attention for you know entertainment purposes so i would almost think it's more likely that she's doing other things that we don't know about when she's off camera um i know that alinity said i think on twitter that the local authorities we're going to come kind of do like a wellness check on the animals i don't know if that ended up happening but anyways take care of your damn pets and be nice to your pets what is wrong with people lately but anyways again thank you so much dr alex for coming over here and doing that guest spot all right but if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and just like i promised boom right here there's a link to dr alex's channel down there there is a link to the last video he did on my channel about veterinarian suicide and all that so make sure you check it out make sure you go follow him subscribe if you have a pet make sure you reach out to him he's more than happy to answer questions on his podcast and make videos and all sorts of stuff all right but that's all i got for this video i'll see you next time