Whether the cat was harmed or endangered isn't the point, I don't appreciate someone disrespecting their pet like that. I especially don't appreciate it being streamed publicly and then condoned. We adopt these animals as family members, not toys.
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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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For fucks sake, what you or she think alcohol is? Sure vodka has a lot of water, but it's also primarily ethanol. Would you give ethanol to a small child, or are you aware you shouldn't do that without any additional instructions not to do so. But somehow you wouldn't consider that it could be really harmful to a ten pound cat too? I really don't think one should have any designated knowledge about alcohol and cats specifically, to understand that alcohol is quite literal poison. Does it need to be explicitly mentioned to not give your cat cocaine either? And by the way, even chocolate can kill a cat. I would understand if someone didn't know this, but ethanol? Come on now. Throw some catnip at them if you want to get them high.
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I hope that cat gets relocated, even if it was out of ignorance is very dangerous for the poor cat.
You have to be a very deranged kind of person to willingly hurt or abuse your pet or any animal for that matter. Fuck her. I really hope there are some serious repercussions for that behavior.
Has she been fucking banned yet?
I better Twitch won't lift a fucking finger. They don't care about people let alone animals.
I better Twitch won't lift a fucking finger. They don't care about people let alone animals.
User banned (3 days): downplaying animal abuse
Dang, that title. There is a difference between spitting vodka into her cat's mouth and getting the cat to lick her lips which has vodka on it even though both are dangerous to the cat. You made me think this was some crazy psychopath whereas what she actually did makes her seem negligent and idiotic.
I guess you could call this a kick, but I don't see what's wrong with it. It doesn't look like she kicked it hard enough to hurt it at all. Unless you think that kind of prod people do with their hands to redirect their dog's attention to them and stop them from doing things is also morally reprehensible "punching" the dog, or maybe yanking the leash could be spun as choking. Prodding with your hand or foot, I don't see what the difference is as long as it's not excessive and isn't hurting the dog. inb4 I get banned for "defending animal cruelty" I guess.
I guess you could call this a kick, but I don't see what's wrong with it. It doesn't look like she kicked it hard enough to hurt it at all. Unless you think that kind of prod people do with their hands to redirect their dog's attention to them and stop them from doing things is also morally reprehensible "punching" the dog, or maybe yanking the leash could be spun as choking. Prodding with your hand or foot, I don't see what the difference is as long as it's not excessive and isn't hurting the dog. inb4 I get banned for "defending animal cruelty" I guess.
Hes only chiming in since he follow Ian Miles Chong and all the other alt right shitheads. Not that it should really mean much, Ricky is a racist twat who's opinions are worth less than nothing.
Is it not true that they also run some of the most kill happy shelters? Last I looked into this I found a lot of the information around PETA to be highly disturbing. Maybe I will have to look into it again, but my understanding was that they have some disturbing policies and are quick to kill animals.
As for the stealing pets and euthanizing them thing... It has happened, but I don't think it is a policy or anything. Just the actions of a few twisted people who work for the organization.
My current impression is that they are still a source of evil in the world.
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She even knows the correct way to support a cat when you lift it. Good job, guardian.
I stopped watching Twitch a while ago due to their abysmal standards for their platform, and so far that decision has constantly been reaffirmed. My only hope is that the cat is able to be taken from that environment. Chucking a cat over your head is abuse. Tricking it into licking alcohol off your lips is abuse. If you don't understand why these actions are abuse, you should not own an animal. Empathy is required.
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I guess you could say the streamer dropped her cat instead of flinging it. I guess you could say she playfully tricked her cat instead of harming it. I guess you could shrug off animal abuse that easily.
So my answer to your comment is this: Bollocks. You don't kick a fucking dog under any circumstances ffs. If you wouldn't do it to a child, you don't fucking well do it to a defenseless animal that loves you unconditionally. And yea, your comment is every bit as bad as those earlier in the thread.
Do you not put a collar and leash on your dog and pull on it when your dog is doing something it shouldn't like eating garbage or running into traffic? Is it wrong to prod your dog--poking it with your hand firmly but not painfully--as you say "no" to stop it from doing something dumb or is your issue that she used her foot and therefore it's a "kick"?
That wasn't a kick. That was a tap with her leg. This is asinine.
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It's called disciplining your dog. Unless disciplining is considered animal abuse.
She threw her cat and she kicked her dog. She's a terrible, animal-abusing, person. End of.
Actually no. Most of the time she walks by my side with no collar or lead. If she's doing something wrong I click my fingers and say "off" and she stops. Never tried kicking or yanking her, though, so your method might be just as effective.
Actually no. Most of the time she walks by my side with no collar or lead. If she's doing something wrong I click my fingers and say "off" and she stops. Never tried kicking or yanking her, though, so your method might be just as effective.
Dang, glad you got an absolute angel of a dog that listens to verbal commands every single time without fail. Most dogs are not that cooperative, unless they're the specially selected graduates of professional training programs, like guide dogs or something.
That's not a hard 'R'. That's an 'A'. And it still shouldn't be coming out of her mouth. Twitch has plenty of reasons to ban her now for life and make an example of her, but they won't.
Jeeeeeeesus. I would've thought the reaction to this kind of behaviour is black and white. Yet somehow people are seeing some grey areas in where her behaviour is okay? Absolutely unbelievable. Makes you really lose faith in humanity.
as a cat owner, you never even throw a cat, you never do it, its abuse, also you cant know if its gonna land well.
Looking at more videos its clear why she's getting the support she's getting here and other places. Sad desperate guys give her money and she say's their usernames on stream and they magically think they have a shot with her. Imagine excusing animal abuse because of a delusional fantasy.
User banned (3 days): downplaying animal abuse
I don't know who this person is, but after looking at the clips:
Cat Toss: dickish and dumb, but in no way a threat to a cat. Not animal abuse. Sling it against a wall, then we'll talk.
Vodka Kiss: Alcohol is incredibly dangerous for cats, like chocolate to a dog, but a small amount is not harmful. If anything it a drunk idiot goofin. Not a big deal. Calm the hell down. Stupid, but not malicious animal abuse.
Dog "Kick" : Using your toes for a scare jab to get a dog's attention is not kicking a dog you guys. I play box with my dog by weaving and gently tapping him with fists while he boxes back at me. Am I punching my dog? Lock me up bois, absolute abuser here for playing with my dog. It's just getting the dog's attention. Not abuse.
These animals look like they're pampered to hell and well groomed. They have free roam and not crated in their own piss wimpering. The animals clearly want to be around her and love her, so they don't fear her. Abused animals fear the abuser.
Overall judgment: Not animal abuse.
Get off your high horses. Especially since putting a saddle and bridle on a horse would be abuse to you people.
Ban me so I can go play with my dog.
Cat Toss: dickish and dumb, but in no way a threat to a cat. Not animal abuse. Sling it against a wall, then we'll talk.
Vodka Kiss: Alcohol is incredibly dangerous for cats, like chocolate to a dog, but a small amount is not harmful. If anything it a drunk idiot goofin. Not a big deal. Calm the hell down. Stupid, but not malicious animal abuse.
Dog "Kick" : Using your toes for a scare jab to get a dog's attention is not kicking a dog you guys. I play box with my dog by weaving and gently tapping him with fists while he boxes back at me. Am I punching my dog? Lock me up bois, absolute abuser here for playing with my dog. It's just getting the dog's attention. Not abuse.
These animals look like they're pampered to hell and well groomed. They have free roam and not crated in their own piss wimpering. The animals clearly want to be around her and love her, so they don't fear her. Abused animals fear the abuser.
Overall judgment: Not animal abuse.
Get off your high horses. Especially since putting a saddle and bridle on a horse would be abuse to you people.
Ban me so I can go play with my dog.
Thank God you're not the judge here.
You clearly know nothing about animals. They love their owners unconditionally. That's the worst part. Their behaviour will change, sure. But they will always see you as a person they love and trust as you're the provider.
You literally acknowledge the harmful effects of alcohol and then in the same sentence you say it's fine. It's vodka which naturally has a higher percentage so even a small amount can have bad effects. Thankfully it's probably okay as she said it was a while ago and the cat is still around (unless there are issues we aren't aware of).
Yep. There are so many toxic streamers with absolute garbage fanbases that banning the one in the OP would just be a drop in the bucket. I mean Ice Poseidon and his crew were free to run around for years and years doing sociopathic shit and it wasn't until the gaming media at large started reporting on it that they did anything about him.
As someone who has over 10 years in working with animals, this is completely wrong.
Fuck some people in this thread, how can you defend this horrible act or think it's ok?
She should be banned for life from Twitch but Twitch is broken and probably won't do shit.
It baffles me how many cat owners in here are perfectly okay with yeeting their cat over the back of their chair.
I always shudder to think what these people would be like off-camera when they have the balls to do this type of stuff live on stream?
Me? I've never tossed either of my cats, mainly because I love them and I know they don't like that, and also because I'm not an asshole. Every single poster in here acting like tossing cats is fine are embarrassingly awful human beings who should never be allowed to live with animals.
It's depressing to have to explain this to people who should know better, but even spitting "just" water unexpectedly like that into a cat's face could easily be dangerous. Cats can be super sensitive to upper respitory issues, including pneumonia. This sort of trick is totally different from things like using a mist sprayer to train/scare a cat away from something they're not supposed to be doing, even if the in-the-moment reaction could look similar. And all this is a billion times worse, and legitimately in abuse territory, if it's actually alcohol.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm referencing situations like this if I say a cat-toss can (note the conditional) be a fun activity for the cat. I've known probably half-a-dozen cats in my lifetime who absolutely loved this sort of routine. They were almost all younger, and me and almost everyone around me was initally uncomfortable with it, but it was the sort of thing the cat would mew for, the same way they mew for wet food or chase time. By the same token, some cats hate even being off the ground, it all depends on the cat. The circumstances in the streamer's video are obviously different; it was done in frustration, with the cat caught off guard, and it was done blindly with the cat's orientation not taken into account (all of which make it more dangerous/careless/mean-spirited).
I can only speak for myself, but I'm referencing situations like this if I say a cat-toss can (note the conditional) be a fun activity for the cat. I've known probably half-a-dozen cats in my lifetime who absolutely loved this sort of routine. They were almost all younger, and me and almost everyone around me was initally uncomfortable with it, but it was the sort of thing the cat would mew for, the same way they mew for wet food or chase time. By the same token, some cats hate even being off the ground, it all depends on the cat. The circumstances in the streamer's video are obviously different; it was done in frustration, with the cat caught off guard, and it was done blindly with the cat's orientation not taken into account (all of which make it more dangerous/careless/mean-spirited).
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Cats yeet all over the damn place on their own volition. I've had a cat use my head as a springboard before.
Just to be clear, there's a difference between a cat acting crazy with mid-air flips at 3am on their own, and doing it to them unexpectedly because you're frustrated. I'm not saying you're specifically defending that sort of mistreatment, but we've gotta spell it out in a convo like this.
You have to see the difference between a cat jumping on its own and being thrown, no?
When a cat jumps, its in control.
When it gets thrown... Not so much.
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