Brooke Houts Won't Be Charged With Animal Abuse After Slapping Her Dog in Shocking Video
By Shannon RaphaelSep. 5 2019, Updated 1:33 p.m. ET
While most YouTubers who turn vlogging right into a career aren't any strangers to controversy, Brooke Houts is reeling from the scrutiny she not too long ago dealt with over alleged dog abuse. The vlogger posted a video in August that has since come beneath super fire as a result of audience idea that Brooke abused her Doberman puppy all the way through. After a police investigation, Brooke's fate has been made up our minds.
So where is Brooke Houts now? Inside the video that had enthusiasts calling for her arrest and what she's been doing to manage with the allegations in opposition to her.
Brooke was once just lately accused of animal abuse after she posted a surprising video.
Brooke's YouTube channel boasts over 326,000 subscribers, and she were posting a large number of content material related to the brand new addition to her family: her Doberman puppy, Sphinx.
She claimed that lovers were loving the canine content material within the comments segment of her movies, so maximum of her contemporary content pertained to her domestic dog. But, fans said one video went too a long way and Brooke was once quickly apologizing for her habits on Twitter.
Brooke meant to put up a prank video in opposition to the 11-month-old puppy, where she put plastic wrap around a door for the canine to run into, but she as a substitute by accident posted a piece of the video that was supposed to be edited out. In the edited piece, Brooke is attempting to speak to the digital camera, but Sphinx assists in keeping getting into the shot.
Brooke is seen slapping the canine, spitting on him, and then pushing him to the bottom. Though the video has since been deleted, lovers stuck the mistake quickly and had been calling for police motion. The LAPD conducted an investigation however Brooke was once cleared of any charges on Sept. 4. She will be allowed to keep Sphinx, and the police claimed that there was no evidence of forget or abuse on Brooke's section.
Where is Brooke Houts now? She has principally been offline since the incident.
Since the backlash started, Brooke grew to become her Instagram web page from public to non-public, and she hasn't posted a video on YouTube since. She did factor a commentary on Twitter when the debate first began. She apologized for posting the footage and she claimed that she were having a tough week when she filmed the video.
In part of her statement, Brooke wrote, "I am not going to play the 'victim card' or anything of that sort, but I do want to point out that I am rarely as upset as what was shown in the footage."
She went on to write, "That being said, this does NOT justify me yelling at my dog in the way that I did and I'm fully aware of that. Should I have gotten as angry as I did in the video? No. Should I have raised my voice and yelled at him? No. However, when my 75 pound Doberman is jumping up in my face with his mouth open, I do, as a dog parent, have to show him that this behavior is unacceptable."
Since the video was posted, Brooke has only spoken out on Twitter as soon as after her apology. She thanked people who had been "kind and understanding," and has been radio silent since. Now that Brooke is out of a police investigation, her return to YouTube and social media is more likely.
But the feedback phase on her final YouTube video has audience nonetheless calling for Brooke to prevent making videos and calling her "canceled." Time will inform if Brooke comes to a decision to proceed her channel, or discuss out extra about the canine abuse allegations.
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