so I know a lot of us have had our own opinions about the brooke houts situation
with her dog as well as alinity 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 focused 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 bring that notification
bell so in case you missed it I did a video about the brook house situation
already but then I'm like my wheels are 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 you does a podcast like this dude 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 could talk about yeah 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 awhile
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
alright but anyways I'm gonna 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 illinit she 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
just gonna 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 ow 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 pings into perspective is this a case of severe animal abuse no it's not
she's got the big dog big dogs do need disciplining what she did wasn't
disciplining her dog effectively it wasn't 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 gonna hurt her dog is gonna cause it's any at 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 her raised voices keep coming back although her dog wants
his attention it's just a not very well trained dog so after that initial could
have pushed 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 um 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 the dog pins it down 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 dogs not emotionally distressed it's
not terrified it's not um you know rolling on its back it's not good
tail tucked between its legs or its ears flat to say that the dog is in any
distress 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 to a 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 to 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 brick did is nothing compared to
what's been on primetime TV so I want to move on to the situation now with
illinit II 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 a head 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 looked
my cats out of my room I'd not get 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 a limit he 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 on 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 . 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 um go and 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 negative things 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 flowchart 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 social
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 gonna teach
her dog anything she also needs to train her dog and her dog's behavior and/or in
its lack of training is absolutely on her now she seems to be aware of that in
her apology I'm tweets that I saw yet she acknowledges that she needs to get
better training for her dog and she needs to have better strategies to cope
to try 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 clearly loved if you look at her other videos she gets bought lots of
things you know she clearly dotes on it most of the time so you know it's also
not showing any sign of being kind of being scared caring to the owner all all
the dog wanted was attention and that's not a sign of a dog who's emotionally
distressed with a Linnet e 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 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 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 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 the description down in the pin 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 Chris's cat
Wyatt you know and yeah like it was
interesting hearing him talk about the Brooke house situation because a lot of
us I think when looking at the Brooke house situation compared to a Luna T it
would almost look like what Brooke 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 have 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 have the proper methods and tools to train this
dog that she that sounds like she is learning that now but it was good
hearing from dr. Alex like yells this dog is going to be okay I think the most
important takeaway from what dr. alex said about the Brooke houts 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 ah 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 system by any ways if you watched my last video about Brooke
house I talked 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 here in dr. Alex talking about the correlation
between animal abuse and domestic violence and I hope you were all paying
attention that now the alinity situation and if any
of you has 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. alice was talking about the
way illinit e-- treats her cats that's what i found interesting as well as very
troubling and a made sense with dr. alex was saying like what a linen he does to
her pets it's premeditated its 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 Brookhouse does you know when
she's off-camera and I think dr. Allis had some good explanation as it seems
like Brookhouse does you know treat that dog with a lot of love and kind
even off camera because there would be certain cues that the animal was being
abused on a regular basis but then we see a linen tea 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 illinit II said I think on Twitter that
the local authorities we're gonna 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 anyways
again thank you so much dr. oz 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
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promised boom right here there's a link to dr. alice'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 podcasts and make videos and all sorts of stuff alright
but that's all I got for this video I'll see you next time