@@arandomperson920 In the moment sure but when it comes to making laws/long-term changes unfortunately people don't actually care enough. Keep in mind that it's illegal to use lethal force to protect your pet because they are considered property.
I told my therapist about this the other day and she revealed she actually had one in her "saved for later" on Amazon, she had no idea how dangerous they are. Thanks for getting the word out more.
Any pet owner w a brain and eyeballs shouldn’t even come close to allowing their cat to use this. Just look how it operates!!! Wow! Negligence all around imo.
yeah bro idk it’s pretty obvious this would happen with this device. at some point consumers need to take responsibility for their own broken brains when it comes to stuff like this
I’d rather face the disgusting odor and scoop the waste from the litter box the old fashioned way than come home to find my cat dead with a broken neck. This scam is downright evil.
I have a cousin who’s cat “cookie” who lost half of its tail because it got stuck in it, to the point the cat still stuck in the litter box was taken to the vet. And the vet had to call the fire station next door to come help get cookie out but by the time the cat was free his tail was not salvageable. Now cookie just has half a tail but at least he has its life
Imagine the cat though. On top of panic in the fact that it can't get out and it's getting crushed, all it's hearing are these loud weird mechanical beeping noises. That's absolutely terrifying.
Not to mention, it'd think that it's a predator considering it doesn't know it's another animals. And it thinks YOU put it there, so it also looses trust in you in their final moments
I just contacted a local vets office yesterday about this, and they’ve agreed to put up a PSA flier in their lobby! I sure hope that it works to discourage purchase of these dangerous knock offs.
How did you go about asking? I’ve been thinking about doing the same and asking my local vet and the rescue I work at but I’m not sure how I should pitch it. I’m worried they wouldn’t take me seriously if I don’t pitch it right
@@spoons5308 I asked them about any mechanical/technological related injuries they’ve seen before to start the topic and then it was naturally able to change for preventative measures, and then they said they could put a small section in their new owners manual/pamphlet when they reorder them and I offered to make a front page flier type thing.
My automatic liter box is just a giant bucket that rotates so worse case my cats would just get startled or jump out. This is purely terrible design and a classic case of companies taking advantage of the rules and regulations and not taking responsibility. This is infuriating
Honestly, the door shouldn't even be that strong. Make it soft, floppy, and a sensor to make it stop if the door bends. The fact that it actually hurt the guy when he put his hand in it is a problem.
It isn’t a door as such, it’s the drum that rotates to clean itself. It needs motor strength - which is why it needs robust safety design. Their half-assed implementation does not come close to that standard.
Literally, I'm like "Did William Afton design this, holy crap." Fun fact, spring locks in real life are not that powerful at all. This is more deadly than Freddie Fazebear, for no reason :(
That scene of the cat hanging dead in the litterbox must have been absolutely traumatizing. I can't even imagine what it felt like to see that for the owner
Dude, that simulation with the plush is TERRIFYING. That is a slow and painful way to go, literally torture. I can't imagine how distraught the owners feel finding their cats in such condition.
My heart literally dropped when I heard that, and got a mental image of how awful and painful such a death for these poor kitties must’ve been. Had to give my cat a big hug and hold him close after hearing that…finding your beloved cat deceased to such a horrific thing sounds traumatizing as hell.
This is why, in this case, you have to go name brand, more expensive. The official litter robot has weight sensors that can even sense a change in weight as small as a single scoop of litter. It won’t spin until it senses the weight is gone and has been gone for a certain amount of time. It stops spinning as soon as it senses weight changes, including a cat stepping one paw on the step or even clumps shifting in the machine. The way it spins makes it highly unlikely, if not impossible, for it to kill a cat, much less even hurt one. I have a litter robot and it works very well and is very safe. Everything I’ve written her is from experience of watching it work.
7:50 that noise means the motor is still going, full force, trying to close. that should NEVER happen. Shitty, evil, and whoever made this deserves nothing.
Really shows how far bootleggers are willing to go to cheapen the knockoff products they make. A simple current sensor would be enough to detect that something is impeding the motor and shut it down or trigger a reverse. Also just makes the fact that they're still charging as much as if this were a genuine product all the more evil.
@@Grady1285 CHINESE DROPSHIPPING GARBAGE. THEY DONT CARE WHO DIES THEY’LL TAKE YOUR MONEY. DONT LET YOUR FAMILY PET OR CHILD OR LOVED ONES BE A VICTIM.
one of my cats is sleeping in my lap while watching this. just seeing the stuffed cat like that genuinely made me tear up, i couldn't imagine being any of the people who had to find their cat like that, let alone how scary of a death it must've been for the poor kittens. hopefully these videos help prevent more people from buying these death traps.
Me too, my cat babies are not with me at the moment but just seeing that made me cry, cats and little creatures like babies, I cannot stand seeing them in any pain. This is so scary
A lot of people don’t realize how unregulated half the shit we buy online are. There’s so many things available on amazon made from dangerous materials or not the product they advertise. Hopefully this is the start of some real change.
Also, why is the motor so ridiculously strong? Its only job is to lift a super light plastic lid. It doesn’t need to be strong enough to nearly crush someone's hand-it should fail mechanically if there’s even a minor obstruction, regardless of any sensors. The motor should only be strong enough to lift the lid, not a single gram more than that.
It has to do with how motors work. Motors spin very fast. So to make them spin slowly you have to step them down with gear boxes, which makes them stronger. The more you spin down a motor to make it move slowly, the stronger it gets.
@@ConsciousExpressionthat doesn’t mean you can’t purposefully spect gears that lose their engagement when they encounter resistance. Look up a slip clutch. This is super basic engineering.
this is why i won’t ever use one of these automatic litter boxes, i’m deathly terrified that a pet will die purely because of my choice to make my life more automated
I have one that’s completely safe and open. It has a timer that waits ten minutes after the cat leaves to do anything. It just moves back and forth. The absolute worst thing I could imagine happening with mine is him getting his paw stuck in the grill if the timer stopped working if he tried really hard. Edit: it’s called Petsafe Scoopfree
The Cat Distribution System gifted us with the sweetest kitten two months ago. The sheer horror I feel after hearing this? I my anxiety is spiking even thinking about this.
Watching that plush get choked out was actually horrific because it sort of gave me a graphic image as to how these poor cats are going. It seems so slow and painful. Jesus Christ.
Omg i just saw… THAT IS HORRIBLE AND HORRIFYING Im about to start crying i own cats and seeing how that’s how cats die makes me wanna vomit. Be safe with your cuddley cats guys (ok y do i sound like a bot tho)
Absolutely disgusting. Theres no way they extensively tested this with a cat, anything to do with live animals needs to check EVERY possibility. Don't just blame the sensors not seeing the cat, blame the fact the door has enough force to trap and hang a cat. Blame the fact that this device you expect a cat to go in and out of MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY has any possibility to trap that cat. I don't know how the litter cleans itself but surely it would be safer to risk a cat jumping into it but being able to jump straight out too, than completely enclose the whole thing.
Well I would be concerned if they did TEST it with a living animal. They should have just made the door some thin sheet of rubber so it couldn't crush anything in the first place.
Thank you for spreading the word about this. I just saw the original video myself. It’s horrific and tragic that any cat, let alone MULTIPLE cats, have been killed by these machines. I hope that someday all of these will be off the market. I hope this reaches as many people as possible.
The minute the machine not only stopped, but then kept forcibly closing on the garfield toy brought back memories to that one Ford Sportka commercial. Jail is too good for them, and names need to be brought up behind the companies selling this thing.
There shouldn’t even be a closing mechanism in the first place. There are many workaround for it that exist out there. None of them are physically possible to get anything stuck in anyway. But no, they just have to go with that braindead design. That’s so sad.
I hate that people are making people who lost their cat feel guilty for buying this when they didn't know. It's the company's fault for selling it. This shouldn't be put on people.
@@kenesys8713dude, this comment wasn’t even about “being lazy” from using tech, it’s about your cat literally dying because a company is horrible (Btw everyone I know he wasn’t blaming the people now, I just missed the quotation marks at first and was very sleep deprived so missed the point entirely lol.)
@@Undernewmanagment you missed their point, they’re parroting some of the people in these comments victim blaming the people who lost their cats to this
Imagine your pet who trusts you and relies on you dying alone and panicking without you knowing about it until the next morning. Just the thought of my cat getting stuck like that and trusting that I would come rescue him like I always have, but having that rescue never come. Especially when you factor in that going to the bathroom is when cats are at their most vulnerable, and it requires them to have absolute trust that the area they are relieving themselves in is safe. I would just feel like I utterly betrayed my cat and would not forgive myself if I lost him that way. Hope this company burns.
Just the thought of that poor kitty not knowing her owner would've helped her if she knew she was in danger makes me tear up 💔 can't imagine how scared and helpess it felt, it's just so sad
@@SalimShahdiOff it's not just cause someone "wants it", sometime people work all day and they don't want their cat sitting in their own poop for a whole working day, automated litter boxes are good for that and there are some safe ones, some open ones that don't close nor rotate, but this one is just a death trap and people don't know better cause they trust products on amazon
Watching the plush go through the sim test was actually horrifying. And the sound it makes as if it'll just continue on cleaning like nothing happened actually made me speechless.
As a fellow Cat lover myself, this is my worst nightmare, how can these brands from China not install an infrared sensor or retraction motor to prevent deaths is beyond me!, any company that sells these coffins needs to be named and shamed!
These companies operate safely from China where no one can reach them. China openly sells scam products, brazenly violates copyright and privacy laws and openly performs corporate, government and military espionage and sabotage on the highest levels. It's a rogue nation with no regard for international law. If countries are having a hard time combatting the above, what chance do you think a lawsuit against a product like this will have?
Thank you so much for posting this Charlie. I was just talking to my friend about their cat becoming picky about her litter box and I asked to see it, and I am SO glad I watched this video because I recognized it IMMEDIATELY. Absolute horror movie music started playing in my head. Shock, horror, revulsion. The thing has gone STRAIGHT to the bin TODAY. I hope you know you've definitely had a huge impact by bringing attention to this and probably saved some cat's lives.
@@Draikinator make sure you tell your friend to get the actual branded Litter Robot from their website if they're gonna get any automatic box. That one is proven many times over to be very safe.
I actually had a similar litter robot, we got it for our cat Patches while we went over to vacation for just a few days (yes we left enough food) and I remember being the first back in the house and my cat was gone. I went to look for them until I saw the red liquid near the box. Turns out it started closing while she was inside and she tried to get out of it and got crushed. I miss Patches so much. She always stuck around me and loved to sleep with me, but i feel guilty for leaving my poor girl alone and letting this happen to her. Edit: Thanks for the nice words, it helps a lot to see that people care.
Im very sorry for your loss Though I am a little concerned that you left the cat alone. I hope it wasnt just dry food.. pls have someone look after a cat when you are gone and let them be fed properly daily.
That sounds like such a heartbreaking scene, no owner should ever have to wake up and see their loved pet hurt like that. This company needs to be sued into oblivion and have their owners in prison
As a certified cnc laser technician. Those sensors and stops should be an absolute requirement. If even one is tripped, stops should be in place until all sensors read nornal values. This is pure neglect. I'd have criminal cases if I didn't put the care and effort into properly setting up the safety nets that the lasers I work on have. This is shameful, unforgivable behaviour.
Screw the sensors. Those motors should not be capable of outputting that much force. Surely you don't need more than a pound or two of force to move that thing back and fourth. There is no reason for those motors to even be able to harm a cat.
@@MGBlast666 Unfortunately suing the seller won't do a thing. There are dozens of sellers selling the same thing and to top it all off, they're all from China. Amazon should be sued for allowing these things to be sold on their platform. This isn't the first nor the only dangerous scam currently being sold there.
@@Mr.Bimgus Even with how heavy cat litter can be, people barely use a pound or 2 per litter box, yeah. To use such strong motors is super redundant and dangerous, and it'd actually LEGITIMATELY be more cost effective to use a cheaper, SAFER, weaker motor.
As a cat owner, this makes me terrified for other cat owners unaware of dangerous products like this. Please, please, please make sure you are certain whatever you buy for your cats, or any pets for that matter, is 100% safe. Disgusting and evil for anyone to even consider to sell these things.
why would you even consider buying a cheap robot knowing well that those cheap products usually dont function well/ have horrible quality. it's honestly on them for even buying this thing, poor kitties dont deserve owners like this
@@cherriepy7548 because most people don’t know that. A lot of people assume the best of companies and assume that they care about the safety of their users and forget that companies are just looking to make as much money as possible. The death of these cats are on the company, not the victim.
I have an automatic litter box due to me having chronic illness, that has a sensor. If I even stand too close it literally will not budge. My cats dont get a chance to even stick their heads in, if they even walk by too close itll stop. AND my litter box rotates sideways not from the front, what a terrible design... Literally a guillotine. There needs to be additional safety features that shut a machine down when motion is sensed. This is a tragic story that could have easily been solved by better engineering and testing.
If it rotates side ways it’ll still decapitate them… so I don’t understand what you mean. I’m disabled, I’d rather not risk their lives when this is happening.
No matter how much pain and how crippled I’ve been, I’ve always just done the manual labor or invested in help when absolutely needed. Our litter box needed to be changed not long when I got out of surgery, and the rest of my family is somewhat to extensively physically disabled and I still did it barely 24 hours later. When i can’t do it for whatever reason, my disabled and old family members will still do it. There just isn’t much of an excuse - if you’re going to have any pets, you have to do the work required to take care of them and the overall household ecosystem. I’m sorry if it sounds blunt but it is not worth it to have any animals get jammed and murdered by a motor - motors and animals do not belong in the same environment.
I'm sorry for your situation. Please do not believe becsuse u may have spent money and use been lucky so far this can't happen. Can't a pet sitter be hired on occasion when a box needs changing. I pray your cat isn't injured or killed.
@@softscribbles how would it decapitate them pls explain? Because it hasn’t happened yet and as someone who owns one I have no idea how what you’re saying is possible at all. Have you actually looked at the kind we are talking about because there are no gaps my dude.
Oh that’s absolutely heartbreaking. I can’t imagine losing either of my babies like that. I hope the company or companies selling these litter boxes never see the light of day again.
from a cat's POV this would've been terrifiying, slowly losing oxygen while mechanical noises go on, likely very loud as cats are very sensitive to sound. and waking up to this in the morning would be horrible. and its quite embarassing that temu removed this while amazon still sells a whole bunch of these death traps
i thought it was basic thinking skills that if ur gonna have a device that moves at any random moment that is has sensors and reverse operations. its crazy that even if a human was there to help the cat the motor would FIGHT against them. in my opinion if it goes into a cleaning cycle even the slightest bit of weight should automatically open it. why cant ppl just clean the litter its not that hard.
Not just loosing oxygen, the machine is crushing their neck/throat to the point of almost d.e.c.a.p.i.t.a.t.i.o.n Edit: this isn't just dangerous for cats, Imagine a child's hand or even a child's head was inside the machine, they wouldn't manage to free themselves, a grown adult male aware of the machines flaws barely got his hand free
yeah it's completely unforgivable engineering my 3D printer has better crash detection safeties for protecting itself and the $0.83 part it's making than these things do for actual sentient beings it's not even a complicated or costly setup: the mainboard just checks if the motors are pulling too much current (which they would do if one of the moving parts has to push hard against something), and if they are it immediately stops everything
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
I’m so glad you’re bringing attention to this. I watched 5 Cats video last month and every time I think about how the poor cats died, it’s unbearable and so horrific.
Here’s the story for that one. The 13 year old girl was at home, mom at work or wherever. She calls mom in a panic, her kitty’s head is stuck and she can’t get it out. Mom looks at the picture and can tell it’s too late for the cat. Mom couldn’t get there in time, so she calls the Police and they go to the house and make the girl wait outside while they free the cats body, and try to calm the girl down. The sad part is she had gotten her kitty like 4 weeks ago, and followed the seller’s recommendation about weight. Then this happens. That poor kid dude. Uugh, how awful.
I really hope that kid gets put into therapy after this. She needs to work through this with a professional because I don’t think any child would be okay after this. My heart goes out to her
that thing is a danger to children also, a grown adult had trouble pulling his hand out when his hand got stuck what chance does a child have when they get stuck. What if a curious child decides to stick their hand or even worse their head in there?
there's nothing more terrible than walking out to find your pet dead. a few months ago a family of raccoons came and killed all four of my backyard hens and left all of them scattered about their run for me to find. I still have dreams where even just one of them survived. I cannot imagine how it must feel knowing something you purchased for your pet killed them in such a brutal way. I'm so so sorry to all of the cats and their people who have suffered because of these machines. it's just heartbreaking. absolutely heartbreaking.
Just had the same happen to our 4 hens last night thanks to a fox - my mum’s screams of shock when she found them still hurts my soul, finding a beloved pet dead is heartbreaking at the very least
I've raised chickens before and while none if them were killed by other animals, one of them was frequently attacked by hawks :( it was so scary each time it happened... i can only imagine how horrible it was to find them dead :(
Or just one of the ones that rotate to the side and have no pinch points that could hurt your cat. There's some that are actually well made and designed to be safe. Just don't cheap out on one if you do regardless of the type, a few bucks saved isn't worth your pets life
7:52 that being the last thing your cat will hear is just so sad. The stress the cat would feel in its final moments is just devastating to think about
God, as someone with a beloved kitty, this completely destroys me. I hate this diabolical shit so much. I gave up on an automatic litter cleaner when my cat was too afraid to use it, and I’m so glad I didn’t pressure him. My heart hurts for these people and their cats, and there’s a special place in hell for people selling this sick shit.
My oldest cat almost died at only a year old when I first got him due to excessive kidney stones. The only reason we caught it in time to save him was because we noticed there was no pee in his litter, something that we could've missed had we been using an automatic litterbox. We brought him to the vet and we were told we would've lost him if we'd brought him in even a day later. Luckily now he's 13, happy and healthy, and I'll never buy an automatic litterbox.
A lot of cats are dehydrated and urinary tract obstruction is somewhat endemic because most people just drop down a water dish and call it good. The tongue of a cat isn't "built" to lap water, they can do it but not very well and they don't really *like* to do it so they don't drink enough
When I first saw advertising for these, I literally found myself thinking "huh, weird that this ad isn't mentioning any safety features - it seems like that would be a good selling-point". Turns out, they didn't mention it because it just didn't exist....
as someone who owns a TON of cats, i couldn't imagine waking up one day to find one of mine's body hanging out the front with blood spilling out, thank you for spreading the truth behind this to prevent this from happening again
@@LuigiMario-ni3rjthis isn’t the consumer’s fault, stop fucking victim blaming, they bought a product, it is reasonable to expect that product to function, it is entirely the manufacturer’s fault
@@LuigiMario-ni3rjthe only stupidity here is you trying to blame consumers. There will always be dumb people. You can't eliminate gullibility, you can only prosecute scammers.
8:30 I thought you were joking when you talked about the “kitty guillotine.” Nope, that thing is literally a plastic guillotine. You cannot prove me otherwise.
My automatic litter box rotates sideways so the door always opens and my cat can escape anytime she wants, it doesn't rotate from the front like this. Whoever designed that litter box should be in jail.
The sellers need to be removed. And not just from Amazon. Might want to compellingly ask the CEO to visually inspect the inside of the box with the original firmware installed.
And Amazon needs to be held accountable as well, for allowing this shit to be sold, for making it accessible to millions, for faking and censoring reviews, for not doing quality control at all… but in reality they won’t, they got away with mistreating and endangering PEOPLE, so they will sadly not be punished.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
This is lethal to small children too. If cribs have been recalled due to neck entrapment, this absolutely needs to be recalled and buyers notified of this flaw. Small children like playing with things that move, I can totally see a small child sticking his or her little head in there and you know the rest....
Product surely manufactured in china, and sold through shell companies. This system is designed to circumvent accountability. Maybe you can sue Amazon, but even there I guess they have bs EULA to also circumvent accountability. Welcome to our cyberpunk future.
I could not imagine getting a call from my kid or significant other saying the litter box i had purchased had just decapitated my cat. The insane amount of guilt heartbreak and anger that must've brought is just horrible. And to think the sellers know what theyre doing??? What kind of human being lets pets be decapitated???
I _like_ to think that humans are inherently good and that everyone's the hero of their own story but that's kind of a hard thing to do when it seems like there are people out there _actively trying to prove me wrong_
@@Brass319humans also tend to not feel guilt when they cant physically comprehend the amount of blood on their hands. Very common. Same logic as how most people wouldnt kill what they eat.
@@DarkAttack14 People that trust a multi billion dollar company to do their research before allowing items on the store. The fact it was on Amazon for so long, even after the first deaths, is the biggest issue other than the people making them. Plus it's such a small online presence yet has good reviews that it seems trustworthy. You forget they delete and pay off anything bad about it. It's hard to find stuff about the deaths.
Owner of two cats here, they're both 14 years old and I've had them since I was a child. Losing them in such a horrific way is one of my worst fears. I use a traditional litter box fashioned from an old rubbermaid storage tub so my cats are luckily not at risk, but my god I cannot imagine the pain of finding your cat like that. Thanks for speaking on this. Now, speaking as an amateur programmer, there is NO reason that motor should have been that strong, NO reason that motor should have kept going, NO reason the machine should not have detected the resistance and immediately stopped the cycle, reversed, and then stopped until a user could manually reset the machine, and NO reason the cycle should have even started if the sensor was broken. NO reason the drum should spin perpindicular to the entrance. That sensor should be a single point of failure. The sensor breaking should render the entire machine inoperable. I'd rather lose money than have my cat get hurt.
The sad part is there’s multiple versions that would take simple malfunctions to then close on the cat itself. If you’re gonna get an automated cat box, then get one of the ones that doesn’t close up all the way. That way if it starts being funky your cat can still get away from it.
As a cat lover, I would NEVER be ok with a settlement because no amount of money could make up for losing my furbaby or the trauma of seeing the horrific way they died :( . I would take them to court, and make sure the whole world knows about them so that no other cat has to suffer this way. It's so sad...
@@TreesAreGreatThis is true. She didn't know that these machines are massproduced in bulk and only agreed cause she didn't want other cat owners to suffer the same thing. I don't think she'd have settled if it weren't for the fact that she thought by her settling she'd be helping others.
You know the company wasn't US based, right? When you're talking about protracted INTERNATIONAL legal action, it's expensive to even attempt, most people couldn't afford to even try it. Like Charlie said, this is a mass produced product from China that's then sold to dozens upon dozens of tiny, no name businesses that can immediately shut down, then restart under a new name, same shady owners and operators and the bigger fish cover their tracks legally. The only way is to raise awareness like this. She assumed it would be withdrawn from sale, the way it would had it been a US or EU company making it, since they have to be more accountable to governments and have more consumer protection in place.
10:10 Now that I can see that the door managed hurt a human hand, I’m just imagining what the cat had to go through in its last moments. Absolutely disgusting company and product.
genuinely, if that would've happened, wouldn't we need to call someone for that? like 9 1 1 or something? gen question im curious like i could never actually clean it i physically couldn't...
@@pooloopoono, our emergency services are really only supposed to be used for humans, and it’s too late for an emergency vet to do anything if the cat is already dead. It would be the owner’s responsibility. If something awful like this were to happen and you couldn’t deal with it yourself, your best bet would be to call a family member and have them help you.
@@prescottperfection6354 and what if the cat needs special needs? like somebody to help somebody that acutally knows what to do?? who do i call (if the cat is alive i meant) edit: maybe i rush them to the vet i guess
@@pooloopoo the family this happened to called the police to handle it, and at least where I live there's an emergency call line for vet services too. Not sure if the police would handle more "normal" pet emergencies, however "my pet cat just got guilotine'd by the litter box and the only one at home is my 13 year old daughter" would definitely do it. They'd at least want to check on the child.
14:29 no amount of money in the world would make me post anything positive about a machine that killed my baby. I hate that man with every fibre in my being.
This is horrifying-- I just got a kitten, and she's running around playing right now. The clip where the stuffed cat toy is being strangled by the litter robot and the noises the machine is making? To like, fight the blockage? Terrifying, because it was probably similar to the sounds the cats were making too. I felt like puking when that clip played. Poor babies, and thanks Charlie for making this video.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
if you make pet products and it HARMS the pets and you REFUSE to take it down and just try to settle it out of court with NDAs you should be thrown in jail for life
Tell that to car manufacturers who will allow 'X' number of deaths every year from fixable problems as the cost of doing business. If it's cheaper to settle with families than to recall and fix the problem? Well, somebody's gonna die.
As someone who cares deeply about the well-being of smaller mammal pets (i.e. hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.), I have seen firsthand how cruel pet product designers can be. This is on another level, though. I mourn the many cat’s lives lost to this deathtrap and wish the owners healing from the grief.
Small animals have it tough. Working at a pet store trying to advocate for them and tell people not to buy harmful toys, cages and decorations that actively harm them that the pet store was literally selling was a constant battle against companies that want money more than animals wellbeing
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
I mean... If they live in an area with cats, or other small animals, I am 100% certain the kid's seen roadkill before. Especially with the US's obsession with 4+ lane roads... At 13, the concept of death should be understood, either via the death of a pet, family member, etc. It would be disturbing yes, but not life-changing disturbing, to find the cat dead, at that age. If anything, it would foster mental fortitude. Now, to see and hear it happening... that's another story. Jesus christ. Holy shit. My cat already sounds like he's dying when I accidentally step on his paw, I do not even want to imagine what a cat sounds like when it's actually dying. In fact, I refuse to even try.
@@theworldoflivvy3150 This would absolutely be a traumatic and scarring memory. Not only is their mind barely past being a child and now a teenager, the cat was their family. It's cruel but you have to understand the attachment to a family member is the part that makes discovering their corpse so earth-shattering, not necessarily just seeing a dead body. I may be sickened by seeing a body, but finding my family member at age 13 laying limp and surrounded by blood with their head locked inside a piece of machinery would beyond doubt be life-changing disturbing.
@@theworldoflivvy3150 the fuck? seeing a random animal that got squashed in a second is not the same at all as seeing your family pet hanging by the neck covered in blood knowing he was fighting for his life in that thing. That would traumatize an adult, let alone a kid. And yes, 13 is kid. Understanding death doesn't make you have full frontal lobe developed. Weird ass comment
@@theworldoflivvy3150 You can't compare roadkill to a an actual loved one lmfao that's like saying 'Why would a nurse cry about her mom dying, they see people die every day'
Imagine how horrendous those poor babies deaths were, how painful it would have been, imagine their last thoughts that went through their little heads they would have been so scared and confused it's so heartbreaking
It's such an odd product tbh. Everyone who owns a cat knows and has seen at least ONCE that the cat will poop, jump out and return to scrape the litter a few times to make sure the poop is covered... This thing very clearly has no sensors or safety in mind. They literally did NOT care.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
@@eduardoguerra3032 they probably just didn't give a fuck about it. do you even think they thought about that? i'd say no. they just wanna get a product out there ASAP. that's all.
as someone who lives in a household with 7 cats, this is absolutely disgusting why the hell would this be a thing this is why i’m sticking with manual cleaning i don’t care
16:01 Thank you for stopping the story there, Charles. Like, just imagining the 13 year old girl finding that. Bro. It was massively distressing thus far already. Best spread this around and prevent any more casualties.
The fast that the door is strong enough to hurt an adult without the pinch "detector" going off is insane. May all the cats that died to this machine rest in peace.
that thing is a danger to children also, a grown adult had trouble pulling his hand out when his hand got stuck what chance does a child have when they get stuck. What if a curious child decides to stick their hand or even worse their head in there?
that clip with the plushie made the psychic damage i took on from this story double in intensity. man that did like, a critical hit to my mental wellbeing.
Seeing the stuffed cat, even though it was stuffed, legit made my stomach turn. I cannot imagine what those families had to see. I am so sorry for what they went through.
But you won't do anything will you? Well nothing beyond making a comment on this video and forgetting about before the days end. Edit: Y'all don't don't seem to understand, I don't give two shits about this situation. I won't do a single thing about it whatsoever, but at least I'm honest about it.
@@somedude832 And are *you* going to do anything better beyond replying to a comment and forgetting about it in a few days? Are *you in specific* going to do anything beyond being a demeaning hypocrite? I really, honestly do not think so. I also don’t think you’re any better than the rest of this “hive mind” you’re supposedly protesting against.
I am a huge cat person, my kitty is my whole world, this is just unforgivable. Scamming people with a stupid product is scummy, scamming people with a product that is actually dangerous is downright evil. Those poor cats did not deserve this, and I feel awful for the people who had to not only lose their babies but in such a horrific manner
@ArshAZ83 I have four and they have two big litter boxes that I clean daily. Doesn't even take me five minutes to deal with it. And I'm sure something mechanical would scare them into not using it.
@@feraltaco4783 Yes lol whenever I hear something like this I will give my cat a big hug if she likes it or not (she does though, she's a huge attention seeker)
This devastates me, I love my cats. This would ruin me. I hope everyone here understands just how absolutely horrific this is. I can't imagine it is instant death, there is suffering involved here. Not only of an innocent, unknowing being, but also of well-meaning caretakers. May our hearts feel that agony, just a fraction of it, and may just one of us hold the monsters manufacturing these accountable.
Exactly this. When the lady was explaining what happened to her cat I broke down and couldn’t help but cry for her and her lovely kitty. It is so deeply saddening and heartbreaking imagining what happened to all the cats that were killed by this disgusting death machine. I just keep thinking about the pain they were in. The people making these devices are sick, cruel and evil.
the fact that you cannot say "blood" on tik tok should be extremely frightening, because that means you cannot expose true violence without being banned, terrifying.
Remember people, most of the time a company wants to settle with you, it means they know that if you took them to court you'll get more than they're offering (or that you're going to ruin there image) always contact a lawyer with situations like that. Sure you can get some money but you are also preventing others from knowing about the risks and potential dangers that you experienced. Its almost never a good idea to settle outside of court.
This isn't always the case as sometimes companies will settle outside of court even when it's not guaranteed you'll win. Always TALK TO A LAWYER if you are in this situation because if it's not certain and the company wins, you've just become a lot poorer. Your personal ruin might be worth the lives you save by raising awareness, but there are plenty of ways to prevent situations like these without bankrupting yourself.
@@TheTingcat that why I said usually and almost. It's not a guarantee but at least if you contact a lawyer you can understand your chances better and potentially have a better outcome
@@Quintessence4444 both, most of the time when you settle out of court (when you have a winning case) you aren't even gonna get close to what you can get awarded in court. Yes you have to play your lawyer, obviously, but you'll still get more than the couple thousand they offer if you're lucky to get that much. A case like the one on the video could easily get close to half a mil or more plus would be made public rather than giving the company a way to hide it and continue doing the exact same thing
This is actually so scary and sad that I’m nauseous. If I came into the room to find my cat killed by one of these I think I would spend the rest of my life in a facility from the trauma
I’m SO SO SO SO thankful he shed light on this, I had no idea abt this. I’m one of MANY cat owners that want the best for their cat(s), but can’t always afford the luxury of certain products and steer toward cheaper alternatives. To think that one day I could’ve had some extra money, bought this thing thinking I’m doing something good for my baby, then find her hanging from it the next day.. I can’t even process it
I'd say a "self cleaning" litter box is more for the convenience of the owner than for the benefit of the cat. There is no way I'd let my cats use something unless I'm certain I know what it does. That goes even more for an electric device. These deaths are in part because of negligence of their owners.
@@DefectivePieceofChalk I agree, it isn’t a good purchase for me since I have the time (and only 1 cat) to clean it regularly. It’s much more appealing to busy families and/or whoever has many cats. Negligence by a company/seller that’s actively causing death to it’s target audience, trying to cover it up, while making hundreds from each purchase is diabolical. The tools to improve its design are there, but it’s a cheap copypasted dropshipped murder machine that’s been advertised to be a helping hand. They know what they’re doing. While owners definitely have a part in the negligence, they bought the machine because they were deceived and lead to believe it was safe
Your cats don’t care, trust me- as long as you keep it relatively clean they’ll appreciate it more than this infernal machine…keep it simple is my advice! Yeah these are really for the owners who are icked out by the litter box chore, which is just part of being a cat owner (and there are other old school solutions for odor control & discrete placement, etc)
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
@@DefectivePieceofChalk Cats do appreciate having a consistently clean litterbox, so the automatic ones do benefit the cat (unless you are home all day/have seven litterboxes, you can't keep a litter tray as clean as an automatic one can). You just have to make sure you're still checking out your cat's waste for health reasons. A lot of litter robots also track your cat's weight which helps for their health. You just have to drop hundred and hundreds on a legit brand unfortunately.
My 17 year old girl passed away yesterday. Not litter box related, thankfully. But it made this video so hard to watch. I almost cried. I couldn't imagine finding one of my cats in what is basically a SAW trap.
I’m so very sorry for your loss! I have raised over 10 cats in the course of my 45 yrs of life and the passing of each of my babies is gut-wrenching. It’s like losing a member of the family. I have faith that your beloved girl as well as my beloved cats who have passed on have crossed the Rainbow Bridge and have found a comfortable place where the sun shines brightly and they can play with their fellow companions together. Prayers to you and your loved ones! 🙏🏼🫶🏻
The plushie demonstration actually made me feel sick. There is no conceivable way they ever even tested this product at all. I can’t even imagine how you could try first aid on an animal after being stuck in this thing Note: ignore the bot please. I’m pretty sure it makes it worse and I don’t want my notifications flooded 🙏
Unfortunately, the company that makes or outsources these cat-killing machines keeps re-branding whenever they're caught and called out for their bullshittery, so suing them is extremely difficult.
As someone who comes from generations of lifetime cat owners and someone who works in the pet service industry, this is actually horrific and I can't even comprehend the trauma of experiencing this. I can't believe safety precautions were passed over like this. I've been hesitant about moving to auto litter boxes and yeah, I'll stick to traditional. Thanks for using your platform, Charlie. This is so important for owners to know.
The real litter robot machines this Chinese company is ripping off are very safe. There's not really a way for the cat to get hurt in it realistically. I wouldn't expect a random Chinese shell company on Amazon to follow safety regulations. They're basically a big sphere with two openings: a big one in the front for the cat to get in and out, and a small chute on the top to remove the soiled litter. When it runs, the sphere rotates and the litter is sifted through a grate into a little pocket leaving the soiled litter on the grate. When the sphere rotates enough, the chute is over the collection tray and the soiled litter slides into the chute. Then the sphere rotates back around and levels the clean litter before resetting. There are weight sensors that start the cycle timer or pause the cycle when the cat gets into it. They can easily get out whenever they need to. I got one years ago and it's been fantastic. Both my cats had no problem using it.
I have 2 cats, an elderly boy named Mahal (my sisters) and my own 2 year old named Jack Sparrow… I can’t imagine the pain I’d feel if I walked into that. What’s worse is that I almost bought one of these off amazon for Jack (Mahal wouldn’t be able to climb in as his bones are weak and he’s having trouble walking) but he didn’t fit the weight limit as he’s a British shorthair, which can get almost to the size of a Maine Coon… he’ll peek into the litter box and stare for a straight 5 minutes… this definitely would’ve taken my baby’s life. The tests and simulations made me bawl my eyes out. These poor kittens didn’t deserve this. I hope the company owners end up in the same situation they put Mochi and Charlie in. Rest in peace to these 2 beautiful babies.
So you're telling me they successfully sued those chocolate eggs for having toys inside but we cant go after a litter box that snaps cats in half?
It's hard enough to get humans to care about other humans, when it's other species it's nigh impossible.
@@-JaggedGrace- it's actually easier to get humans to care about animals
I bet you feel like you're wise and whimsical saying that, but you're stupid. Factually incorrect. @@-JaggedGrace-
@@arandomperson920 not companies
@@arandomperson920 In the moment sure but when it comes to making laws/long-term changes unfortunately people don't actually care enough. Keep in mind that it's illegal to use lethal force to protect your pet because they are considered property.
I told my therapist about this the other day and she revealed she actually had one in her "saved for later" on Amazon, she had no idea how dangerous they are. Thanks for getting the word out more.
Saved your therapist from needing therapy
Just in time.
Im so happy you saved her from this!!
I’m so glad you saved it you’re amazing
@@kenesys8713 For real, she should ask her for a discount on the next session.
This shit needs to be on mainstream. Every pet owner out there needs to know about this gross negligence.
Any pet owner w a brain and eyeballs shouldn’t even come close to allowing their cat to use this. Just look how it operates!!! Wow! Negligence all around imo.
@@petemalogne5219I agree but some people may be oblivious, either way if any kitties can be saved this needs to be everywhere.
yeah bro idk it’s pretty obvious this would happen with this device. at some point consumers need to take responsibility for their own broken brains when it comes to stuff like this
good thing this guy is posting about it
The company should be held accountable too
I’d rather face the disgusting odor and scoop the waste from the litter box the old fashioned way than come home to find my cat dead with a broken neck. This scam is downright evil.
Fr
No literally
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING!!!!
This just should of never happen
Litterboxes don't even smell that bad if u really hate it just get the nice smelling litter.
I have a cousin who’s cat “cookie” who lost half of its tail because it got stuck in it, to the point the cat still stuck in the litter box was taken to the vet. And the vet had to call the fire station next door to come help get cookie out but by the time the cat was free his tail was not salvageable. Now cookie just has half a tail but at least he has its life
Terrible cat name.
@@MeanBeanComedy that's so rude for no reason
None of this would have ever happened if people were just responsible while making products. Cookie got real lucky there.
@@MeanBeanComedy you have a terrible name >:(
Cookie is a good name
@@MeanBeanComedy 🍅 🍅 🍅
Imagine the cat though. On top of panic in the fact that it can't get out and it's getting crushed, all it's hearing are these loud weird mechanical beeping noises. That's absolutely terrifying.
Not to mention, it'd think that it's a predator considering it doesn't know it's another animals. And it thinks YOU put it there, so it also looses trust in you in their final moments
@@yasininn76I don’t think cats are that intelligent ngl, they probably won’t be able to process a malicious intent.
I legit cried. Didn’t think a penguinz0 video would make me cry but here we are…
@@VirtualKingdom5 emotional intelligence is a thing bud
@@porksword11 emotional intelligence is probably what they lack the most of considering that it is entirely useless
I just contacted a local vets office yesterday about this, and they’ve agreed to put up a PSA flier in their lobby! I sure hope that it works to discourage purchase of these dangerous knock offs.
Thank you for doing that. I’m gonna try calling my local vets tomorrow to ask if they can put up warnings as well
@@TaraxOfficial. Nice! Tell me how it goes?
@@Mythical4227 will do!
How did you go about asking? I’ve been thinking about doing the same and asking my local vet and the rescue I work at but I’m not sure how I should pitch it. I’m worried they wouldn’t take me seriously if I don’t pitch it right
@@spoons5308 I asked them about any mechanical/technological related injuries they’ve seen before to start the topic and then it was naturally able to change for preventative measures, and then they said they could put a small section in their new owners manual/pamphlet when they reorder them and I offered to make a front page flier type thing.
My automatic liter box is just a giant bucket that rotates so worse case my cats would just get startled or jump out. This is purely terrible design and a classic case of companies taking advantage of the rules and regulations and not taking responsibility. This is infuriating
same with my cats
Honestly, the door shouldn't even be that strong. Make it soft, floppy, and a sensor to make it stop if the door bends. The fact that it actually hurt the guy when he put his hand in it is a problem.
It isn’t a door as such, it’s the drum that rotates to clean itself. It needs motor strength - which is why it needs robust safety design. Their half-assed implementation does not come close to that standard.
@ArshAZ83it should to keep litter from falling out tbh it should clean itself when the person chooses to
Literally, I'm like "Did William Afton design this, holy crap."
Fun fact, spring locks in real life are not that powerful at all. This is more deadly than Freddie Fazebear, for no reason :(
@ArshAZ83 exactly
what is the purpose of the door on a litter box
i watched the video yet i cannot find a single reason why
Facts
That scene of the cat hanging dead in the litterbox must have been absolutely traumatizing. I can't even imagine what it felt like to see that for the owner
Ikr? And for the daughter that was looking for the cat
I can't imagine! Id never get over it if it was me
the photo of the litter box with blood still on it made me so so sad...
its already terrible to see the plushie and try to imagine how it would look with an actual cat... no, hell no.
Nice pfp, rip 🙏
Dude, that simulation with the plush is TERRIFYING. That is a slow and painful way to go, literally torture. I can't imagine how distraught the owners feel finding their cats in such condition.
couldn't even hear that part. Utterly horrifying.
And the way the machine started making a weird noise when the plush was in it was HORRIFYING
My heart literally dropped when I heard that, and got a mental image of how awful and painful such a death for these poor kitties must’ve been. Had to give my cat a big hug and hold him close after hearing that…finding your beloved cat deceased to such a horrific thing sounds traumatizing as hell.
How do you know this is real? Literally no video evidence of cats décapitated. If you can’t show vids it’s not real. Cough cough springfield
@@DownWithCensorship are you stupid on purpose? why the hell would someone take videos or pictures of their own cats dead/dying in a gruesome way???
This is why, in this case, you have to go name brand, more expensive. The official litter robot has weight sensors that can even sense a change in weight as small as a single scoop of litter. It won’t spin until it senses the weight is gone and has been gone for a certain amount of time. It stops spinning as soon as it senses weight changes, including a cat stepping one paw on the step or even clumps shifting in the machine. The way it spins makes it highly unlikely, if not impossible, for it to kill a cat, much less even hurt one. I have a litter robot and it works very well and is very safe. Everything I’ve written her is from experience of watching it work.
"It doesn't really function the way it should, because it shouldn't be fucking killing cats." Couldn't have said it better myself.
This whole situation is so fucked up
the fact they know it kills cats and still sells it is so so wrong
@@Truls_epiceven Mr Krabs would think this is fucked up 💀
Maybe they update it to idk robot thing 2.0 and it will have better working instead of killing and the sensors will actually work
@@Abandoned_account1dont be blindly optimistic, bootleggers dont care about quality
@@SomeRobIoxDude im not damn blind i see perfectly
7:50 that noise means the motor is still going, full force, trying to close. that should NEVER happen. Shitty, evil, and whoever made this deserves nothing.
Really shows how far bootleggers are willing to go to cheapen the knockoff products they make. A simple current sensor would be enough to detect that something is impeding the motor and shut it down or trigger a reverse. Also just makes the fact that they're still charging as much as if this were a genuine product all the more evil.
All it took was a dang current sensor to detect the current spike on the motor. But Elon musk couldn’t even figure that out…
Man, just hearing that noise that sounds like it's in agony make me imagine what if it was a real cat going inside there! Poor Garfield.
Fucking horrific
@@Grady1285 CHINESE DROPSHIPPING GARBAGE. THEY DONT CARE WHO DIES THEY’LL TAKE YOUR MONEY. DONT LET YOUR FAMILY PET OR CHILD OR LOVED ONES BE A VICTIM.
one of my cats is sleeping in my lap while watching this. just seeing the stuffed cat like that genuinely made me tear up, i couldn't imagine being any of the people who had to find their cat like that, let alone how scary of a death it must've been for the poor kittens. hopefully these videos help prevent more people from buying these death traps.
yeah seeing the stuffed cat gives a terrifying image
Same here
I'm so glad you're seeing this video!! You should consider sharing this information to spread the word. I was just thinking about buying one :((
Me too, my cat babies are not with me at the moment but just seeing that made me cry, cats and little creatures like babies, I cannot stand seeing them in any pain. This is so scary
My cat just came in, wehing at me. I picked him up and held him for a few minutes, kissing him and telling him I love him.
7:40 Can you imagine how TERRIBLE it would be to be a real cat and die like this? This hurts my soul. :(
A lot of people don’t realize how unregulated half the shit we buy online are. There’s so many things available on amazon made from dangerous materials or not the product they advertise. Hopefully this is the start of some real change.
Nobody asked! RWGS is way better than this guy, my content is much better
Unlike the bots, I agree.
@@AltRightGamingRWGS Your not even a bot. You should be extra embarrassed
right like watching this video make me not want to buy a litter robot online this is terrifying as a cat owner with 2 cats
@SkbidiAshtray i miss the old ragebait
Also, why is the motor so ridiculously strong? Its only job is to lift a super light plastic lid. It doesn’t need to be strong enough to nearly crush someone's hand-it should fail mechanically if there’s even a minor obstruction, regardless of any sensors. The motor should only be strong enough to lift the lid, not a single gram more than that.
My thoughts exactly. What the Hell is that motor made of?! Not that I need to know.
that, or coupled with a very light clutch or magnetic drive that will slip
It has to do with how motors work. Motors spin very fast. So to make them spin slowly you have to step them down with gear boxes, which makes them stronger. The more you spin down a motor to make it move slowly, the stronger it gets.
This is some Fredbears Family Diner type shit
@@ConsciousExpressionthat doesn’t mean you can’t purposefully spect gears that lose their engagement when they encounter resistance. Look up a slip clutch. This is super basic engineering.
this is why i won’t ever use one of these automatic litter boxes, i’m deathly terrified that a pet will die purely because of my choice to make my life more automated
RWGS IS WAY BETTER
Honestly this problem only exists because of insufferable pet owners
I have one that’s completely safe and open. It has a timer that waits ten minutes after the cat leaves to do anything. It just moves back and forth. The absolute worst thing I could imagine happening with mine is him getting his paw stuck in the grill if the timer stopped working if he tried really hard.
Edit: it’s called Petsafe Scoopfree
@@ferretyluvyeah mine has a timer as well. The cat stays away when it makes noise so he’s good
@@ferretyluv Same here
The Cat Distribution System gifted us with the sweetest kitten two months ago. The sheer horror I feel after hearing this? I my anxiety is spiking even thinking about this.
Watching that plush get choked out was actually horrific because it sort of gave me a graphic image as to how these poor cats are going. It seems so slow and painful. Jesus Christ.
and that god awful squeal the machine makes being the last sound they heard is just the horrid cherry on top
yeah!
For real, the dumbass mfers who made these machines are horrible, this is fucking disgusting and cruel for these poor kitties.
Omg i just saw… THAT IS HORRIBLE AND HORRIFYING Im about to start crying i own cats and seeing how that’s how cats die makes me wanna vomit. Be safe with your cuddley cats guys (ok y do i sound like a bot tho)
@@anactualalpaca7016 :(
Absolutely disgusting. Theres no way they extensively tested this with a cat, anything to do with live animals needs to check EVERY possibility. Don't just blame the sensors not seeing the cat, blame the fact the door has enough force to trap and hang a cat. Blame the fact that this device you expect a cat to go in and out of MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY has any possibility to trap that cat. I don't know how the litter cleans itself but surely it would be safer to risk a cat jumping into it but being able to jump straight out too, than completely enclose the whole thing.
This made me absolutely disgusted, I hope more people can see this video.
Its fucked up
Well I would be concerned if they did TEST it with a living animal. They should have just made the door some thin sheet of rubber so it couldn't crush anything in the first place.
I mean...I wouldn't say its terrific but...I mean.......
@@cheese1627I wouldn't go that far
The idea of seeing your dead cat hanging by its neck out of this thing with blood everywhere is scarier than every horror movie I've seen combined
I guess you haven't watched many horror movies...
@@jacob-2271You're weird
@@jacob-2271 I have
i legit had to close the tab out after seeing the guy test the litterbox on a plushie, jesus fucking christ almighty
If that shit happened to my cat I would be in jail. I wouldn't give a shit if the seller didn't know.
Thank you for spreading the word about this. I just saw the original video myself. It’s horrific and tragic that any cat, let alone MULTIPLE cats, have been killed by these machines. I hope that someday all of these will be off the market. I hope this reaches as many people as possible.
appreciate charlie for bringing attention to this
@SkbidiAshtray TOP UTTP AND RWGS TEAM
@@AltRightGamingRWGSuseless
@@superk9letsplays419just ignore them
Oop
@@fantaguyreal mf I can't tell if you got hacked to spam, or if you just changed the gameplan from content to spam
What's even better, Amazon won't let people post reviews for the relisted product. They're fully complicit in this.
There’s 16 on Amazon, 12 on Wayfair and 26 on Walmart. The links are in my pinned comment.
SO true! Shout out Louis Rossman, he is a great channel that exposes Amazon and other terrible companies
the company probably just selected an option to not allow reviews. Amazon cant control that
@@Shadow0fd3ath24 there's no such option on Amazon.
@@Shadow0fd3ath24 there's no such option on Amazon
The minute the machine not only stopped, but then kept forcibly closing on the garfield toy brought back memories to that one Ford Sportka commercial. Jail is too good for them, and names need to be brought up behind the companies selling this thing.
There shouldn’t even be a closing mechanism in the first place. There are many workaround for it that exist out there. None of them are physically possible to get anything stuck in anyway. But no, they just have to go with that braindead design. That’s so sad.
Companies literally exist to protect individuals from liability lol.
“Jail is to good for them” are you suggesting they be executed? What the fuck is wrong with you
@@SecuR0M CEOs and employees have names and addresses just like you and I.
And addresses 😎
I have never been more thankful for scooping my cats litter box more then this, and not having a killer litter box
I hate that people are making people who lost their cat feel guilty for buying this when they didn't know. It's the company's fault for selling it. This shouldn't be put on people.
"grr how dare you 'be lazy' by using technology, when technology itself exists to make our lives easier!!!"
@@kenesys8713dude, this comment wasn’t even about “being lazy” from using tech, it’s about your cat literally dying because a company is horrible
(Btw everyone I know he wasn’t blaming the people now, I just missed the quotation marks at first and was very sleep deprived so missed the point entirely lol.)
@@Undernewmanagment you missed their point, they’re parroting some of the people in these comments victim blaming the people who lost their cats to this
I can’t blame them at all because the company has deleted negative reviews
@@colorbar.s still, doesn’t exactly make sense imo to put it on a comment unrelated to it
Imagine your pet who trusts you and relies on you dying alone and panicking without you knowing about it until the next morning. Just the thought of my cat getting stuck like that and trusting that I would come rescue him like I always have, but having that rescue never come. Especially when you factor in that going to the bathroom is when cats are at their most vulnerable, and it requires them to have absolute trust that the area they are relieving themselves in is safe. I would just feel like I utterly betrayed my cat and would not forgive myself if I lost him that way. Hope this company burns.
Add to that, that it's mainly because you wanted cheap automation
Just the thought of that poor kitty not knowing her owner would've helped her if she knew she was in danger makes me tear up 💔 can't imagine how scared and helpess it felt, it's just so sad
@@SalimShahdiOff it's not just cause someone "wants it", sometime people work all day and they don't want their cat sitting in their own poop for a whole working day, automated litter boxes are good for that and there are some safe ones, some open ones that don't close nor rotate, but this one is just a death trap and people don't know better cause they trust products on amazon
@@EveTheRaviolo yeah I get it, but when it happens this is how you feel about it
Or it is how I would, if it happened
Makes me want to actually cry sooo horrific
Watching the plush go through the sim test was actually horrifying. And the sound it makes as if it'll just continue on cleaning like nothing happened actually made me speechless.
Right? When that happened I applied that to the review about a cat’s loss ): that shit is horrific
same
i had to go hug my kitty after that i can’t believe they wouldn’t thoroughly test this product before releasing it
@@kathe_ Company owners probably never even owned a cat in the first place if they overlooked this
As a fellow Cat lover myself, this is my worst nightmare, how can these brands from China not install an infrared sensor or retraction motor to prevent deaths is beyond me!, any company that sells these coffins needs to be named and shamed!
Thanks!
That is a court case waiting to happen, as a vet tech student 8:03 brought me to tears knowing how horrible that cat would have died.
Me too, I nearly cried.
These companies operate safely from China where no one can reach them. China openly sells scam products, brazenly violates copyright and privacy laws and openly performs corporate, government and military espionage and sabotage on the highest levels. It's a rogue nation with no regard for international law. If countries are having a hard time combatting the above, what chance do you think a lawsuit against a product like this will have?
Literally, that’s actually horrifying.
I was just listening to this video and the sound itself had me wincing, but when I checked the video I had to skip ahead
I bet they fight like hell too hurting themselves further .
Thank you so much for posting this Charlie. I was just talking to my friend about their cat becoming picky about her litter box and I asked to see it, and I am SO glad I watched this video because I recognized it IMMEDIATELY. Absolute horror movie music started playing in my head. Shock, horror, revulsion. The thing has gone STRAIGHT to the bin TODAY. I hope you know you've definitely had a huge impact by bringing attention to this and probably saved some cat's lives.
Draikinator what are you doing here 0_0?
@@Draikinator make sure you tell your friend to get the actual branded Litter Robot from their website if they're gonna get any automatic box. That one is proven many times over to be very safe.
@@triforce_majora The Popur one is also very good and not as expensive. It's an open design so there isn't anything inside to get stuck on
For some reason I imagined u kicking that thing across the room at the part u recognized what the machine was.
@@caryhurd9960 same
I actually had a similar litter robot, we got it for our cat Patches while we went over to vacation for just a few days (yes we left enough food) and I remember being the first back in the house and my cat was gone. I went to look for them until I saw the red liquid near the box. Turns out it started closing while she was inside and she tried to get out of it and got crushed. I miss Patches so much. She always stuck around me and loved to sleep with me, but i feel guilty for leaving my poor girl alone and letting this happen to her.
Edit: Thanks for the nice words, it helps a lot to see that people care.
I'm so sorry for your loss, I really hope you get better and R.I.P Patches, everyone loved you.
OH MY GOD!! Im so sorry for your loss....Poor Patches.
R.I.P Patches. You shouldn't be forgotten.
RIP patches.
Im very sorry for your loss
Though I am a little concerned that you left the cat alone. I hope it wasnt just dry food.. pls have someone look after a cat when you are gone and let them be fed properly daily.
This is terrifying. I can’t believe a company could be so damn evil. They are literally selling a guillotine.
That sounds like such a heartbreaking scene, no owner should ever have to wake up and see their loved pet hurt like that. This company needs to be sued into oblivion and have their owners in prison
Should be sued but at the end of they day it's the designers fault.
@@moodlethenoodlesue who? Some random Chinese company?
@@moodlethenoodlenot exactly how that works, you can be liable for not making sure the product you’re selling is safe.
ON GOD
@Wumbo57 that is true as well yeah, the main ones at fault is whoever greenest the product
As a certified cnc laser technician. Those sensors and stops should be an absolute requirement. If even one is tripped, stops should be in place until all sensors read nornal values. This is pure neglect. I'd have criminal cases if I didn't put the care and effort into properly setting up the safety nets that the lasers I work on have.
This is shameful, unforgivable behaviour.
Screw the sensors. Those motors should not be capable of outputting that much force. Surely you don't need more than a pound or two of force to move that thing back and fourth. There is no reason for those motors to even be able to harm a cat.
As a cnc operator I 100 percent aggre even 20 years old machine has to stop
china is, quite literally, above the law, due to international trade agreements, which were made entirely to sell out the west
@@MGBlast666 Unfortunately suing the seller won't do a thing. There are dozens of sellers selling the same thing and to top it all off, they're all from China. Amazon should be sued for allowing these things to be sold on their platform. This isn't the first nor the only dangerous scam currently being sold there.
@@Mr.Bimgus Even with how heavy cat litter can be, people barely use a pound or 2 per litter box, yeah.
To use such strong motors is super redundant and dangerous, and it'd actually LEGITIMATELY be more cost effective to use a cheaper, SAFER, weaker motor.
As a cat owner, this makes me terrified for other cat owners unaware of dangerous products like this. Please, please, please make sure you are certain whatever you buy for your cats, or any pets for that matter, is 100% safe. Disgusting and evil for anyone to even consider to sell these things.
@@DUSKSANEI’ll get you one so you can use it personally
why would you even consider buying a cheap robot knowing well that those cheap products usually dont function well/ have horrible quality. it's honestly on them for even buying this thing, poor kitties dont deserve owners like this
@@cherriepy7548bruh that’s some next level victim blaming
@@WhatIsTheHeatit’s common sense though
@@cherriepy7548 because most people don’t know that. A lot of people assume the best of companies and assume that they care about the safety of their users and forget that companies are just looking to make as much money as possible. The death of these cats are on the company, not the victim.
I have an automatic litter box due to me having chronic illness, that has a sensor. If I even stand too close it literally will not budge. My cats dont get a chance to even stick their heads in, if they even walk by too close itll stop. AND my litter box rotates sideways not from the front, what a terrible design... Literally a guillotine.
There needs to be additional safety features that shut a machine down when motion is sensed. This is a tragic story that could have easily been solved by better engineering and testing.
Exactly!
If it rotates side ways it’ll still decapitate them… so I don’t understand what you mean. I’m disabled, I’d rather not risk their lives when this is happening.
No matter how much pain and how crippled I’ve been, I’ve always just done the manual labor or invested in help when absolutely needed. Our litter box needed to be changed not long when I got out of surgery, and the rest of my family is somewhat to extensively physically disabled and I still did it barely 24 hours later. When i can’t do it for whatever reason, my disabled and old family members will still do it. There just isn’t much of an excuse - if you’re going to have any pets, you have to do the work required to take care of them and the overall household ecosystem. I’m sorry if it sounds blunt but it is not worth it to have any animals get jammed and murdered by a motor - motors and animals do not belong in the same environment.
I'm sorry for your situation. Please do not believe becsuse u may have spent money and use been lucky so far this can't happen. Can't a pet sitter be hired on occasion when a box needs changing. I pray your cat isn't injured or killed.
@@softscribbles how would it decapitate them pls explain? Because it hasn’t happened yet and as someone who owns one I have no idea how what you’re saying is possible at all. Have you actually looked at the kind we are talking about because there are no gaps my dude.
Oh that’s absolutely heartbreaking. I can’t imagine losing either of my babies like that. I hope the company or companies selling these litter boxes never see the light of day again.
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No keep selling them why bot
@@MinecraftSoAwesome I don't think you'll get the good debate you're seeking out of this
@@MinecraftSoAwesome rage bait
@@ikbik6613 Bruh just fix the design
from a cat's POV this would've been terrifiying, slowly losing oxygen while mechanical noises go on, likely very loud as cats are very sensitive to sound. and waking up to this in the morning would be horrible. and its quite embarassing that temu removed this while amazon still sells a whole bunch of these death traps
w from temu? nice
Rare Temu W
i thought it was basic thinking skills that if ur gonna have a device that moves at any random moment that is has sensors and reverse operations. its crazy that even if a human was there to help the cat the motor would FIGHT against them. in my opinion if it goes into a cleaning cycle even the slightest bit of weight should automatically open it. why cant ppl just clean the litter its not that hard.
Not just loosing oxygen, the machine is crushing their neck/throat to the point of almost d.e.c.a.p.i.t.a.t.i.o.n
Edit: this isn't just dangerous for cats, Imagine a child's hand or even a child's head was inside the machine, they wouldn't manage to free themselves, a grown adult male aware of the machines flaws barely got his hand free
i saw a review of someone who heard their cat struggling and they got them free and the cat was laying there barely breathing
The fact that the motor was not only still going but was struggling more to force it closed is horrible.
Absolutely no sensor to stop the motor
yeah it's completely unforgivable engineering
my 3D printer has better crash detection safeties for protecting itself and the $0.83 part it's making than these things do for actual sentient beings
it's not even a complicated or costly setup: the mainboard just checks if the motors are pulling too much current (which they would do if one of the moving parts has to push hard against something), and if they are it immediately stops everything
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
@@sethdrake7551 i agree. Its stupid how these kinds of sellers can get away with it just by changing names slightly
I’m so glad you’re bringing attention to this. I watched 5 Cats video last month and every time I think about how the poor cats died, it’s unbearable and so horrific.
"Life with your pet, endlessly better" has got to be one of the biggest forms of false advertising Ive ever seen
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Funny enough. I got an ad for some catgirl game on this video lmao.
"Life with your pet, ended."
this is true
@@AltRightGamingRWGS oh no guys he said its our final warning what am I gonna do 😔😭😖😥😱😨
Here’s the story for that one. The 13 year old girl was at home, mom at work or wherever. She calls mom in a panic, her kitty’s head is stuck and she can’t get it out. Mom looks at the picture and can tell it’s too late for the cat. Mom couldn’t get there in time, so she calls the Police and they go to the house and make the girl wait outside while they free the cats body, and try to calm the girl down. The sad part is she had gotten her kitty like 4 weeks ago, and followed the seller’s recommendation about weight. Then this happens. That poor kid dude. Uugh, how awful.
I really hope that kid gets put into therapy after this. She needs to work through this with a professional because I don’t think any child would be okay after this. My heart goes out to her
that thing is a danger to children also, a grown adult had trouble pulling his hand out when his hand got stuck what chance does a child have when they get stuck. What if a curious child decides to stick their hand or even worse their head in there?
@@RandomPersonOf2005 That’s a good point, I hadn’t even thought of that.
Four weeks ago too?! Thats horrific, that poor cat and that poor owner, the cat has barely bonded with the owner and vice versa..
Honestly, with how curious children are... it could literally...
Is it embarrassing that TEMU removed the product before Amazon ?
super embarrasing
Temu is a money hungry company and a spyware, but not a killer
@@newbearicle4not all chinese people do that and also isn't that racism saying this?
@@newbearicle4either you are an oblivious child or racist
Yes embarrasing lol
7:46 the video of the Garfield plushie actually made my stomach drop. It felt like it went way longer when I saw it the first time.
there's nothing more terrible than walking out to find your pet dead. a few months ago a family of raccoons came and killed all four of my backyard hens and left all of them scattered about their run for me to find. I still have dreams where even just one of them survived. I cannot imagine how it must feel knowing something you purchased for your pet killed them in such a brutal way. I'm so so sorry to all of the cats and their people who have suffered because of these machines. it's just heartbreaking. absolutely heartbreaking.
I'm sorry for the loss of your hens, I can't imagine how painful that was
@@ouroboros8529
😥 sorry for your loss.
Just had the same happen to our 4 hens last night thanks to a fox - my mum’s screams of shock when she found them still hurts my soul, finding a beloved pet dead is heartbreaking at the very least
@zoee3296
I'm sorry about that 😔
I've raised chickens before and while none if them were killed by other animals, one of them was frequently attacked by hawks :( it was so scary each time it happened... i can only imagine how horrible it was to find them dead :(
If vendors can't be sued in the country where the product is purchased. Amazon should be banned from selling it.
Except that means they can't sell anything from China, and when given the choice between ethics and money...
Amazon itself needs to be held liable
@@mitchclover258absolutely
Amazon has always been shady
Never mind setting it, they should not sell it either bro!!
If you want a self cleaning litter tray...get one where you press the button yourself to make it clean itself. They should never be automatic.
I was just saying this to my partner needs be something the owner can press on and door lock while it’s working or go back to regular litter trays
I have one that has a grate that combs across the bottom and is completely open
@@dakotareid1566 What's the name of that product, if you don't mind me asking?
There is also one where you have to rotate it manually,
Or just one of the ones that rotate to the side and have no pinch points that could hurt your cat. There's some that are actually well made and designed to be safe. Just don't cheap out on one if you do regardless of the type, a few bucks saved isn't worth your pets life
7:52 that being the last thing your cat will hear is just so sad. The stress the cat would feel in its final moments is just devastating to think about
God, as someone with a beloved kitty, this completely destroys me. I hate this diabolical shit so much. I gave up on an automatic litter cleaner when my cat was too afraid to use it, and I’m so glad I didn’t pressure him. My heart hurts for these people and their cats, and there’s a special place in hell for people selling this sick shit.
@@jellybrainsss Well if the cats weren't so dumb, they woundnt get clapped LMAO.
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My oldest cat almost died at only a year old when I first got him due to excessive kidney stones. The only reason we caught it in time to save him was because we noticed there was no pee in his litter, something that we could've missed had we been using an automatic litterbox. We brought him to the vet and we were told we would've lost him if we'd brought him in even a day later. Luckily now he's 13, happy and healthy, and I'll never buy an automatic litterbox.
Glad your cat is ok now 👍
❤ you're a hero.
I'm gonna level with you, I don't think the concept of an automatic litter box is the issue here.
A lot of cats are dehydrated and urinary tract obstruction is somewhat endemic because most people just drop down a water dish and call it good. The tongue of a cat isn't "built" to lap water, they can do it but not very well and they don't really *like* to do it so they don't drink enough
@@Mr.Bimgus If they weren’t scooping manually, they wouldn’t know about the kidney stones.
When I first saw advertising for these, I literally found myself thinking "huh, weird that this ad isn't mentioning any safety features - it seems like that would be a good selling-point". Turns out, they didn't mention it because it just didn't exist....
as someone who owns a TON of cats, i couldn't imagine waking up one day to find one of mine's body hanging out the front with blood spilling out, thank you for spreading the truth behind this to prevent this from happening again
This is terrifying. Corporate greed is terrifying.
Consumer stupidity is even more terrifying.
This isn’t « corporate greed » this is just how third worlders conduct business. The Chinese, Indians etc. all do this type of shady business.
Corporations are naturally greedy. It’s lack of regulation that’s the problem. China has no human rights, seriously expect them to care about cats?
@@LuigiMario-ni3rjthis isn’t the consumer’s fault, stop fucking victim blaming, they bought a product, it is reasonable to expect that product to function, it is entirely the manufacturer’s fault
@@LuigiMario-ni3rjthe only stupidity here is you trying to blame consumers. There will always be dumb people. You can't eliminate gullibility, you can only prosecute scammers.
8:30 I thought you were joking when you talked about the “kitty guillotine.” Nope, that thing is literally a plastic guillotine. You cannot prove me otherwise.
It's more like a really messed up extruder
Now imagine... someone's baby/toddler crawling into it, curious and thinking it's a toy, and facing the same fate as these cats. MASSIVE lawsuits.
Literally what my mind jumped to next. I also thought about those automated baby rockers...
Pretty unrealistic, i dont think they would fit
@@kento_suijin clearly you don't have kids or little siblings
I was thinking of just that, the guy had to use his other hand to free himself and hes a grown man, terrifying
but little care if the animal the product is made for is killed by it.
My automatic litter box rotates sideways so the door always opens and my cat can escape anytime she wants, it doesn't rotate from the front like this. Whoever designed that litter box should be in jail.
Removing the product is not enough. The sellers needs to be held accountable for knowingly selling a product that can and HAS killed pets.
The sellers need to be removed. And not just from Amazon. Might want to compellingly ask the CEO to visually inspect the inside of the box with the original firmware installed.
And Amazon needs to be held accountable as well, for allowing this shit to be sold, for making it accessible to millions, for faking and censoring reviews, for not doing quality control at all… but in reality they won’t, they got away with mistreating and endangering PEOPLE, so they will sadly not be punished.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
This is lethal to small children too. If cribs have been recalled due to neck entrapment, this absolutely needs to be recalled and buyers notified of this flaw.
Small children like playing with things that move, I can totally see a small child sticking his or her little head in there and you know the rest....
Product surely manufactured in china, and sold through shell companies. This system is designed to circumvent accountability. Maybe you can sue Amazon, but even there I guess they have bs EULA to also circumvent accountability. Welcome to our cyberpunk future.
I could not imagine getting a call from my kid or significant other saying the litter box i had purchased had just decapitated my cat. The insane amount of guilt heartbreak and anger that must've brought is just horrible. And to think the sellers know what theyre doing??? What kind of human being lets pets be decapitated???
I _like_ to think that humans are inherently good and that everyone's the hero of their own story but that's kind of a hard thing to do when it seems like there are people out there _actively trying to prove me wrong_
Who buys cheap chinese motorized devices and allows their cats to enter it? They hold 80% of the guilt the sellers do
@@DarkAttack14 We live in a world full of fools, both the seller and yourself should know better by now
@@Brass319humans also tend to not feel guilt when they cant physically comprehend the amount of blood on their hands. Very common. Same logic as how most people wouldnt kill what they eat.
@@DarkAttack14
People that trust a multi billion dollar company to do their research before allowing items on the store.
The fact it was on Amazon for so long, even after the first deaths, is the biggest issue other than the people making them.
Plus it's such a small online presence yet has good reviews that it seems trustworthy. You forget they delete and pay off anything bad about it. It's hard to find stuff about the deaths.
Owner of two cats here, they're both 14 years old and I've had them since I was a child. Losing them in such a horrific way is one of my worst fears. I use a traditional litter box fashioned from an old rubbermaid storage tub so my cats are luckily not at risk, but my god I cannot imagine the pain of finding your cat like that. Thanks for speaking on this.
Now, speaking as an amateur programmer, there is NO reason that motor should have been that strong, NO reason that motor should have kept going, NO reason the machine should not have detected the resistance and immediately stopped the cycle, reversed, and then stopped until a user could manually reset the machine, and NO reason the cycle should have even started if the sensor was broken. NO reason the drum should spin perpindicular to the entrance. That sensor should be a single point of failure. The sensor breaking should render the entire machine inoperable. I'd rather lose money than have my cat get hurt.
The sad part is there’s multiple versions that would take simple malfunctions to then close on the cat itself. If you’re gonna get an automated cat box, then get one of the ones that doesn’t close up all the way. That way if it starts being funky your cat can still get away from it.
I just bought one myself! One that doesn’t close up all the way because this is just sad man. Like Charlie said INFURIATING
Yep! The ones that say operation stops when the cat pulls up to the box. All it takes is a malfunction.
As a cat lover, I would NEVER be ok with a settlement because no amount of money could make up for losing my furbaby or the trauma of seeing the horrific way they died :( .
I would take them to court, and make sure the whole world knows about them so that no other cat has to suffer this way. It's so sad...
Courts always protect the company over the consumer. Take it to the media.
I heard the only reason why the cat owner accepted it was because the company would also get rid of their item on Amazon
@@TreesAreGreatThis is true. She didn't know that these machines are massproduced in bulk and only agreed cause she didn't want other cat owners to suffer the same thing. I don't think she'd have settled if it weren't for the fact that she thought by her settling she'd be helping others.
It wasn’t even a lot of Money
You know the company wasn't US based, right? When you're talking about protracted INTERNATIONAL legal action, it's expensive to even attempt, most people couldn't afford to even try it. Like Charlie said, this is a mass produced product from China that's then sold to dozens upon dozens of tiny, no name businesses that can immediately shut down, then restart under a new name, same shady owners and operators and the bigger fish cover their tracks legally. The only way is to raise awareness like this. She assumed it would be withdrawn from sale, the way it would had it been a US or EU company making it, since they have to be more accountable to governments and have more consumer protection in place.
10:10 Now that I can see that the door managed hurt a human hand, I’m just imagining what the cat had to go through in its last moments. Absolutely disgusting company and product.
holy fuck...
Im legit shaking is anger and sadness. Im horrified. They all need to go to prison for animal crualty. Its so sick and twisted.
it literally decapitated the cat oh my god i am beyond angry
Wtf
What did you expect?
Imagine not only the heartbreak of having to see your cat like that.. but having to clean it all up and take care of it
genuinely, if that would've happened, wouldn't we need to call someone for that? like 9 1 1 or something? gen question im curious like i could never actually clean it i physically couldn't...
@@pooloopoono, our emergency services are really only supposed to be used for humans, and it’s too late for an emergency vet to do anything if the cat is already dead. It would be the owner’s responsibility. If something awful like this were to happen and you couldn’t deal with it yourself, your best bet would be to call a family member and have them help you.
@@prescottperfection6354 and what if the cat needs special needs? like somebody to help somebody that acutally knows what to do?? who do i call (if the cat is alive i meant)
edit: maybe i rush them to the vet i guess
@@pooloopoo the family this happened to called the police to handle it, and at least where I live there's an emergency call line for vet services too. Not sure if the police would handle more "normal" pet emergencies, however "my pet cat just got guilotine'd by the litter box and the only one at home is my 13 year old daughter" would definitely do it. They'd at least want to check on the child.
@@vickypedia1308 thank you
14:29 no amount of money in the world would make me post anything positive about a machine that killed my baby. I hate that man with every fibre in my being.
This is horrifying-- I just got a kitten, and she's running around playing right now. The clip where the stuffed cat toy is being strangled by the litter robot and the noises the machine is making? To like, fight the blockage? Terrifying, because it was probably similar to the sounds the cats were making too. I felt like puking when that clip played. Poor babies, and thanks Charlie for making this video.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
yeah and you wont hear the cat struggling so much instead you will hear a annoying washing machine noise
first comment I've seen about how horrific that nose was. that shit was something right out of a horror movie.
if you make pet products and it HARMS the pets and you REFUSE to take it down and just try to settle it out of court with NDAs you should be thrown in jail for life
Tell that to car manufacturers who will allow 'X' number of deaths every year from fixable problems as the cost of doing business. If it's cheaper to settle with families than to recall and fix the problem? Well, somebody's gonna die.
you are being way too merciful.
Capital punishment +
in a just world, someone would build a human-size version of the machine, stuff 'em in, and let 'em see the fruits of their labor firsthand
china doesnt have animal welfare laws
As someone who cares deeply about the well-being of smaller mammal pets (i.e. hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.), I have seen firsthand how cruel pet product designers can be. This is on another level, though. I mourn the many cat’s lives lost to this deathtrap and wish the owners healing from the grief.
@@Repeatedwaif What a weird thing to say.
@@Repeatedwaiflike westerns coming to south africa and hunting animals making them extinct
Those little colorful hamster cages get me heated
Same here
Small animals have it tough. Working at a pet store trying to advocate for them and tell people not to buy harmful toys, cages and decorations that actively harm them that the pet store was literally selling was a constant battle against companies that want money more than animals wellbeing
Can't say blood on tiktok, but you can steal cars, eat poison, etc
i was so fucking shocked hearing the woman's daughter who found the cat was 13... imagine having to see something like that at such a young age.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
I mean... If they live in an area with cats, or other small animals, I am 100% certain the kid's seen roadkill before. Especially with the US's obsession with 4+ lane roads... At 13, the concept of death should be understood, either via the death of a pet, family member, etc.
It would be disturbing yes, but not life-changing disturbing, to find the cat dead, at that age. If anything, it would foster mental fortitude.
Now, to see and hear it happening... that's another story. Jesus christ. Holy shit.
My cat already sounds like he's dying when I accidentally step on his paw, I do not even want to imagine what a cat sounds like when it's actually dying. In fact, I refuse to even try.
@@theworldoflivvy3150 This would absolutely be a traumatic and scarring memory. Not only is their mind barely past being a child and now a teenager, the cat was their family.
It's cruel but you have to understand the attachment to a family member is the part that makes discovering their corpse so earth-shattering, not necessarily just seeing a dead body.
I may be sickened by seeing a body, but finding my family member at age 13 laying limp and surrounded by blood with their head locked inside a piece of machinery would beyond doubt be life-changing disturbing.
@@theworldoflivvy3150 the fuck? seeing a random animal that got squashed in a second is not the same at all as seeing your family pet hanging by the neck covered in blood knowing he was fighting for his life in that thing. That would traumatize an adult, let alone a kid. And yes, 13 is kid. Understanding death doesn't make you have full frontal lobe developed. Weird ass comment
@@theworldoflivvy3150 You can't compare roadkill to a an actual loved one lmfao that's like saying 'Why would a nurse cry about her mom dying, they see people die every day'
Imagine how horrendous those poor babies deaths were, how painful it would have been, imagine their last thoughts that went through their little heads they would have been so scared and confused it's so heartbreaking
I can’t stop thinking about this, actually. I’m in tears 😭 I hope the people responsible for making these evil machines face repercussions.
yeah...
@curzethemallwhy are you laughing
@@Lidcatsrage bait or a 2 year old who doesn't know what is going on.
Fuck your lack of empathy. Become a better human being.
It's such an odd product tbh. Everyone who owns a cat knows and has seen at least ONCE that the cat will poop, jump out and return to scrape the litter a few times to make sure the poop is covered... This thing very clearly has no sensors or safety in mind. They literally did NOT care.
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
and I have a gut feeling they made it that way, but it's just a feeling that I hope isn't right and I hope it's just me overthinking
They litter-ally don't care.
Considering that this company is in China, where animal safety and animal rights are non existing, I'm not surprised at all.
@@eduardoguerra3032 they probably just didn't give a fuck about it. do you even think they thought about that? i'd say no. they just wanna get a product out there ASAP. that's all.
2:17 that is a statement I believe with my entire being.
the garfield plushie example was absolutely horrifying.. I cant imagine the pain the cats that fell victim to that terrible machine went through.. :'(
This makes me wanna cry! Plus my intrusive thoughts don't help, poor kitties!😭
Probably asking like "why" and the owners now helpless to watch what's happening.
@@hiddenscars101i AM crying rn. praying more kitties don’t fall victim to this
as someone who lives in a household with 7 cats, this is absolutely disgusting why the hell would this be a thing this is why i’m sticking with manual cleaning i don’t care
WHO ASKED + RWGS IS WAY BETTER
Not trying to be rude but why 7 cats? I’m just curious what makes people to buy this many amount of cats.
@@DeadShot86486Could be rescued.
@@DeadShot86486people like cats.
@@DeadShot86486 Read up on cat brain parasytes.
16:01 Thank you for stopping the story there, Charles. Like, just imagining the 13 year old girl finding that. Bro. It was massively distressing thus far already. Best spread this around and prevent any more casualties.
that poor girl is traumatized...
THANK YOU for getting this out there.
This is barbaric and heartbreaking.
The fast that the door is strong enough to hurt an adult without the pinch "detector" going off is insane. May all the cats that died to this machine rest in peace.
that thing is a danger to children also, a grown adult had trouble pulling his hand out when his hand got stuck what chance does a child have when they get stuck. What if a curious child decides to stick their hand or even worse their head in there?
that clip with the plushie made the psychic damage i took on from this story double in intensity. man that did like, a critical hit to my mental wellbeing.
Seeing just his hand getting stuck… like omfg 😢
The sound with the video is also horrifying. Can't tell you how genuinely disturbed and upset I am
There really should've been a trigger warning before it was shown.
Grow up
a... Mo1st Cr1tikal hit...?
The loud sound as the device tries to go up but an object blocks the way is frightening, like it's basically the sound of death
this is why i would *NEVER* get an automatic litter box
Apparently the extremely expensive one is good - costs about £800, which is slightly more in US dollars.
@thisperson5294 i still would never get one. Id never trust it
Seeing the stuffed cat, even though it was stuffed, legit made my stomach turn. I cannot imagine what those families had to see. I am so sorry for what they went through.
That garfield Being "Hurt" really hurt me. I went from sadness to anger. Something NEEDS to be done
But you won't do anything will you? Well nothing beyond making a comment on this video and forgetting about before the days end.
Edit: Y'all don't don't seem to understand, I don't give two shits about this situation. I won't do a single thing about it whatsoever, but at least I'm honest about it.
Lmao the reply
@@somedude832Do you open up youtube and decide you’re gonna be an asshole then or can you just not help yourself?
@@somedude832 And are *you* going to do anything better beyond replying to a comment and forgetting about it in a few days? Are *you in specific* going to do anything beyond being a demeaning hypocrite? I really, honestly do not think so. I also don’t think you’re any better than the rest of this “hive mind” you’re supposedly protesting against.
@@UnreliableistYTof course not, he doesn’t care lol.
I am a huge cat person, my kitty is my whole world, this is just unforgivable. Scamming people with a stupid product is scummy, scamming people with a product that is actually dangerous is downright evil. Those poor cats did not deserve this, and I feel awful for the people who had to not only lose their babies but in such a horrific manner
@@Tabth3778 I'm angry crying and cuddling one of my kitties.
Makes me sick to my stomach when he described what happened.. I hope the ones responsible is found, with the internet, it's only a 'matter of time'
@ArshAZ83 I have four and they have two big litter boxes that I clean daily. Doesn't even take me five minutes to deal with it. And I'm sure something mechanical would scare them into not using it.
@@feraltaco4783 Yes lol whenever I hear something like this I will give my cat a big hug if she likes it or not (she does though, she's a huge attention seeker)
@@Tabth3778 I always have one who is up for a cuddle. 🤣
I never feel nauseous or numb watching a video but seeing the Garfield plush clip made me feel pretty much HORRIFIED..
This devastates me, I love my cats. This would ruin me. I hope everyone here understands just how absolutely horrific this is. I can't imagine it is instant death, there is suffering involved here. Not only of an innocent, unknowing being, but also of well-meaning caretakers. May our hearts feel that agony, just a fraction of it, and may just one of us hold the monsters manufacturing these accountable.
Couldn't have said it better, this hurts my heart in the worst way.
Exactly this. When the lady was explaining what happened to her cat I broke down and couldn’t help but cry for her and her lovely kitty. It is so deeply saddening and heartbreaking imagining what happened to all the cats that were killed by this disgusting death machine. I just keep thinking about the pain they were in. The people making these devices are sick, cruel and evil.
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@@vindemia imagine explaining this to your 2 year old daughter. Absolutely fucked
Sadly nobody's going to be held accountable. The vast majority of these sellers are from China.
the fact that you cannot say "blood" on tik tok should be extremely frightening, because that means you cannot expose true violence without being banned, terrifying.
THE FACT THAT YOU NEED TO USE TIKTOK BABYTALK IS GODDAMN INSENSITIVE
@@Alantheguy2025 ????
@@Alantheguy2025 ??
That's also why people on tiktok say grape or grape without the g when exposing someone who did that horrendous act to them
Not unless we make our voices heard.
Remember people, most of the time a company wants to settle with you, it means they know that if you took them to court you'll get more than they're offering (or that you're going to ruin there image) always contact a lawyer with situations like that. Sure you can get some money but you are also preventing others from knowing about the risks and potential dangers that you experienced. Its almost never a good idea to settle outside of court.
This isn't always the case as sometimes companies will settle outside of court even when it's not guaranteed you'll win. Always TALK TO A LAWYER if you are in this situation because if it's not certain and the company wins, you've just become a lot poorer. Your personal ruin might be worth the lives you save by raising awareness, but there are plenty of ways to prevent situations like these without bankrupting yourself.
Who'll get more? You or your lawyer? Besides you could still lose and it could take forever.
@@TheTingcat that why I said usually and almost. It's not a guarantee but at least if you contact a lawyer you can understand your chances better and potentially have a better outcome
@@Quintessence4444 both, most of the time when you settle out of court (when you have a winning case) you aren't even gonna get close to what you can get awarded in court. Yes you have to play your lawyer, obviously, but you'll still get more than the couple thousand they offer if you're lucky to get that much. A case like the one on the video could easily get close to half a mil or more plus would be made public rather than giving the company a way to hide it and continue doing the exact same thing
@@renotS_tahT-024 Of course it does depend on the amount they offer and yeah if anything making it public is far more important, you're right.
This is actually so scary and sad that I’m nauseous. If I came into the room to find my cat killed by one of these I think I would spend the rest of my life in a facility from the trauma
I’m SO SO SO SO thankful he shed light on this, I had no idea abt this. I’m one of MANY cat owners that want the best for their cat(s), but can’t always afford the luxury of certain products and steer toward cheaper alternatives. To think that one day I could’ve had some extra money, bought this thing thinking I’m doing something good for my baby, then find her hanging from it the next day.. I can’t even process it
I'd say a "self cleaning" litter box is more for the convenience of the owner than for the benefit of the cat. There is no way I'd let my cats use something unless I'm certain I know what it does. That goes even more for an electric device. These deaths are in part because of negligence of their owners.
@@DefectivePieceofChalk I agree, it isn’t a good purchase for me since I have the time (and only 1 cat) to clean it regularly. It’s much more appealing to busy families and/or whoever has many cats. Negligence by a company/seller that’s actively causing death to it’s target audience, trying to cover it up, while making hundreds from each purchase is diabolical. The tools to improve its design are there, but it’s a cheap copypasted dropshipped murder machine that’s been advertised to be a helping hand. They know what they’re doing. While owners definitely have a part in the negligence, they bought the machine because they were deceived and lead to believe it was safe
Your cats don’t care, trust me- as long as you keep it relatively clean they’ll appreciate it more than this infernal machine…keep it simple is my advice! Yeah these are really for the owners who are icked out by the litter box chore, which is just part of being a cat owner (and there are other old school solutions for odor control & discrete placement, etc)
Amztoy is actually on youtube!! Seriously!! The channel is actually here and as of typing this message it has 7 videos and 161 subscribers!! I have already reported this channel to youtube so please do the same and encourage other to do so!! Even if this saves one cats life, it will be worth it!! ehn I reported them, youtube did not have an animal endangerment category but they did have one for children, so I just chose that, because that is also relevant as human children could be harmed by this thing too!! In the option at the end where you can type in a description, I just pretty much told them to watch this vid to get all the info they need!!
@@DefectivePieceofChalk Cats do appreciate having a consistently clean litterbox, so the automatic ones do benefit the cat (unless you are home all day/have seven litterboxes, you can't keep a litter tray as clean as an automatic one can). You just have to make sure you're still checking out your cat's waste for health reasons. A lot of litter robots also track your cat's weight which helps for their health. You just have to drop hundred and hundreds on a legit brand unfortunately.
My 17 year old girl passed away yesterday. Not litter box related, thankfully. But it made this video so hard to watch. I almost cried. I couldn't imagine finding one of my cats in what is basically a SAW trap.
I’m so very sorry for your loss! I have raised over 10 cats in the course of my 45 yrs of life and the passing of each of my babies is gut-wrenching. It’s like losing a member of the family. I have faith that your beloved girl as well as my beloved cats who have passed on have crossed the Rainbow Bridge and have found a comfortable place where the sun shines brightly and they can play with their fellow companions together. Prayers to you and your loved ones! 🙏🏼🫶🏻
Oh my goodness! I’m so sorry!! My heart goes out to you 🙏💔😢
sorry to hear ❤
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The plushie demonstration actually made me feel sick. There is no conceivable way they ever even tested this product at all. I can’t even imagine how you could try first aid on an animal after being stuck in this thing
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Yeah, I imagined the same thing and I felt quite devestatwd for the victims of this product
@@maverick9708 exactly… it’s nuts
I'm assuming this is because they would then be liable for injury during animal testing.
None of these rip offs are tested
when I saw that plushie video I gasped and woke up my sleeping toddler, and she saw it and cried. Traumatizing video
No matter how much money the company gives. If they killed my cat, them i'm going to sue the heck out of them.
Unfortunately, the company that makes or outsources these cat-killing machines keeps re-branding whenever they're caught and called out for their bullshittery, so suing them is extremely difficult.
That test with the cat plushie was...horrifying. I don't even have a pet, but to see your cat go out is such a effed up way...damn.
Same bro, I literally got chills watching that, and the noise too?? The motor kept going trying to close!
As someone who comes from generations of lifetime cat owners and someone who works in the pet service industry, this is actually horrific and I can't even comprehend the trauma of experiencing this. I can't believe safety precautions were passed over like this. I've been hesitant about moving to auto litter boxes and yeah, I'll stick to traditional. Thanks for using your platform, Charlie. This is so important for owners to know.
The real litter robot machines this Chinese company is ripping off are very safe. There's not really a way for the cat to get hurt in it realistically. I wouldn't expect a random Chinese shell company on Amazon to follow safety regulations.
They're basically a big sphere with two openings: a big one in the front for the cat to get in and out, and a small chute on the top to remove the soiled litter. When it runs, the sphere rotates and the litter is sifted through a grate into a little pocket leaving the soiled litter on the grate. When the sphere rotates enough, the chute is over the collection tray and the soiled litter slides into the chute. Then the sphere rotates back around and levels the clean litter before resetting. There are weight sensors that start the cycle timer or pause the cycle when the cat gets into it. They can easily get out whenever they need to. I got one years ago and it's been fantastic. Both my cats had no problem using it.
Agree, just imagining how scared that poor cat was , how much it screamed in agony for help of any kind , how he died at his most vulnerable place
This thing design wise looks like a trap designed to kill cats.
Deadass
or toddlers
@@tissuepaper9962was that the bite of 87
It deadass sounded like a hydraulic press.
This Chinese design is very human.
I have 2 cats, an elderly boy named Mahal (my sisters) and my own 2 year old named Jack Sparrow… I can’t imagine the pain I’d feel if I walked into that. What’s worse is that I almost bought one of these off amazon for Jack (Mahal wouldn’t be able to climb in as his bones are weak and he’s having trouble walking) but he didn’t fit the weight limit as he’s a British shorthair, which can get almost to the size of a Maine Coon… he’ll peek into the litter box and stare for a straight 5 minutes… this definitely would’ve taken my baby’s life. The tests and simulations made me bawl my eyes out. These poor kittens didn’t deserve this. I hope the company owners end up in the same situation they put Mochi and Charlie in. Rest in peace to these 2 beautiful babies.