"it's just water" is a very convenient excuse to try to skirt around their TOS of dangerous levels of alcohol consumption.
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Partnered Twitch Streamer Alinity chucks cat over her head mid-Apex match, also spits vodka into her cat's mouth
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How the fuck is throwing a cat not deemed that serious.
I mean she tossed it over her head blindly. I don't give a shit if a cat can survive a two story drop you still don't chuck it out a window in frustration. At the very least it shows a complete lack of compassion toward the cat as a living creature and more like a thing.
I mean she tossed it over her head blindly. I don't give a shit if a cat can survive a two story drop you still don't chuck it out a window in frustration. At the very least it shows a complete lack of compassion toward the cat as a living creature and more like a thing.
Throwing a pet is not a "fun routine."
A cat would not flip the fuck out like that in the video, if that was just water.
WTF.
Cats are pretty good at reorienting themselves in the air to land. Doesn't mean you should fucking blind toss them over your head.
I don't even have words for the alcohol thing. It's pretty clear that wasn't water.
This is extremely obviously animal abuse.
I don't even have words for the alcohol thing. It's pretty clear that wasn't water.
This is extremely obviously animal abuse.
Reading this thread while my cat sleeps on my lap....
She's clearly abusing her cat by giving alcohol and lobbing the poor thing over her head like an empty bag of crisps.
She's clearly abusing her cat by giving alcohol and lobbing the poor thing over her head like an empty bag of crisps.
What's sad is that there are people legitimately defending her because they think they have a chance with her. Y'all im sorry but sounds like you need to get a life if you have to pay some person you don't know to acknowledge you. So silly.
There is also a video of her kicking a dog if that hasn't been posted yet
Kinda sad that when the dog gets kicked, it's almost used to it
Kinda sad that when the dog gets kicked, it's almost used to it
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I'm not offended by the cat throwing.
The alcohol is a real problem and deserving of a temp ban so she gets the point.
Since these clips are simply too short I would need to see more with her reaction to Twitch chat pointing out this really dangerous for her cat to determine if she was aware of this or didn't even think if this might be unsafe.
The alcohol is a real problem and deserving of a temp ban so she gets the point.
Since these clips are simply too short I would need to see more with her reaction to Twitch chat pointing out this really dangerous for her cat to determine if she was aware of this or didn't even think if this might be unsafe.
I mean it CAN be a fun/safe/routine to toss your animal. Ive had a cat that fucking loved to be tossed on the bed or sofa, but this clearly wasn't for fun as she wanted it out of her lap because of her precious game. Its not water, cats don't act like that because of water.
Throwing an animal blindly over your head behind you being dangerous is something we need to teach adults via Twitch chat now?
It's obvious you shouldn't give an animal alcohol but I guess I never realized quite how toxic it is to cats. That's good to know... The toss is also pretty bad. The way their brain gyroscope thing works means that while most of the time graceful in the air, if you throw them like that, they are no more graceful than a dog.
I don't think you're allowed to be drunk on Twitch, right? Especially as a partner who represents Twitch?
The alcohol incident seems old and if they didn't do anything about that I doubt it then.
No, I think you can. A streamer I watch gets drunk a lot, unless he's joking.
You're just not aloud to do drink related donation goals though if you get drunk to the extent that you could potentially harm yourself/others you could face a ban.
You're right man, she probably thinks that whole "cats have 9 lives" thing is legit too. We should be more understanding.....
Come on, she is a grown woman and I can't believe you would say that in response to the vid. If the cat broke one of it's legs from her doing, would you say "Well at least she didn't kill the cat so its not so bad" too?
Willingly doing anything that could potentially harm an animal is abuse, and grabbing an animal to throw it behind your head is exactly abuse.
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First one, hey it happens, I've had to toss a cat before when it was getting into some stuff, though it's a bad look that you're doing it because it's interupting your stream.
Second one though, that's no bueno.
Second one though, that's no bueno.
Twitch is gonna throw the book at her, the most severe punishment they can think of.
I hope she's ready for her one week ban!
I hope she's ready for her one week ban!
That's terrible. Poor cat :(
I don't agree with this. I know so many good cat owners that don't explicitly know how dangerous alcohol is. They just don't do it because it's mean and unnecessary (not due to how truly dangerous it is).
I don't agree with this. I know so many good cat owners that don't explicitly know how dangerous alcohol is. They just don't do it because it's mean and unnecessary (not due to how truly dangerous it is).
Pets are a lot more sensitive to human things in general, any standard adult can easily piece that together that alcohol could be extremely dangerous to any pet with the effect it has on a person.
Yeah when even chocolate can be fatal, one should probably consider what straight vodka can do.
I can't make a comment on the tossing and the action of tossing of the cat in particular because we don't see how high it tosses and what the floor's like. I toss my cat on my bed with a similar gesture (though mine's to the side, not overhead) and he finds it fun. Her reason for doing it is the issue: she's lashing out at the cat. It makes one worry if she gets angrier, what might happen to that cat if she "blames" it for her loss in a video game.
The alcohol stuff is a big fat fuckin' nono though. Like, there's a reason you never hear about giving cats that kinda stuff. I never even considered that as a thing that anyone would ever consider to possibly do until that clip. Realizing the organism is smaller means smaller doses are more dangerous.
The alcohol stuff is a big fat fuckin' nono though. Like, there's a reason you never hear about giving cats that kinda stuff. I never even considered that as a thing that anyone would ever consider to possibly do until that clip. Realizing the organism is smaller means smaller doses are more dangerous.
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