@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
@@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.
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 :(
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)
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
Engineer here: the door shouldn’t go upwards it should go down SLOWLY WITHOUT PRESSURE, BEING FED BY GRAVITY and then locking using hidden tabs that then get locked in. Sensors often fail or can be removed for any product, I worked for a company that made particle accelerators one of which was sent to Mexico where they ripped them off and ran the machine open in the plant irradiating everyone. If this comment gets enough likes I will waste my time making a function 3D model better than this product using the FREE cad software fusion 360 proving the company’s absolute ignorance and probably making it 1/4 the cost of involving electronic sensors!
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.)
@@LegallyinsaneLoL you missed their point, they’re parroting some of the people in these comments victim blaming the people who lost their cats to this
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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!!
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
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
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.
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 :(
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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 🙏
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.
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.
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.
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)
I immediately started to cry. The thought of just finding your pet dead, without you being there for them, is the reason why I can’t move out of my house because I don’t own all of my pets, but I’m the one who takes care of them all. The thought that they could be injured or worse is why I stay up with my cats and go to sleep only when they do. They’re apart of the family, moreso than others I’m blood related to. I really hope no other cat will be harmed by this litterbox.
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!
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🙏🏼🫶🏻
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.
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.
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.
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....
😮 so true. Kids are known for playing in litter boxes. This situation could get way worse than it already is if this company doesnt recall these boxes and cease selling it
I was thinking the same thing, Unfortunately it’s likely that it would take an accident of that extant to stop the company. Even after all the horrible tragedies with the cats.. makes me sick
We didn't get a cat until I was 12, but had I been two or three, I could have easily been one of those babies. I was a curious child. This shit is terrifying!
I just wanted to add a note about the review change, a while ago I had a situation where I was mis-sold and item, it was a screen protector for my phone, when it arrived it turned out it had this glue on the inside that nearly destroyed my phone. As the reviews were amazing I was so confused, I left a review saying that this was awful, don't buy. But then was contacted by the company and promised as many free items, money etc if I changed my review to at least a 4 star or something. I am not saying that is what happened here, but that's my only experience with something like this. Edit: Got to the end and it seems something similar actually happened with them.
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.
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.
That noise when the plushie was being crushed actually frightened me. :( I’m not big into cats, but my lord, imagine the terror these poor owners had to see. :( I feel so bad for them.
This might sound like fearmongering but I can imagine these companies doing the exact same thing with children's products: selling cheap crap that could seriously injure or kill a child - then hiding the bad reviews, re-packing the same shit under a different name, and avoiding legal consequences because they're based abroad.
You don't even have to imagine; things like this have happened before. For example, chew toys designed for toddlers specifically, that were found to be highly toxic, and that's just one example.
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!!
It's called white labelling. They aren't repackaging it once they get caught, they already do it so they control most of the market for that object. Very prevalent on places like Amazon because the more listings for an object that belongs to you (anything from charging leads, to cat litter boxes, to children's toys), the more likely a customer is to be exposed to your listing. It should be illegal. It leads to customers leaving a bad review on the item that caused harm/didn't work, but they still need the item that they bought. So they buy it again from the same company but under a different brand name - then it breaks again. Then they do it all over again and eventually the customer gets so fed up that they just keep the low quality item. They feel like there's no other options available - but this is because white labelling has artificially inflated and obfuscated the market
Just imagine if a curious kid investigated this death trap. An adult man had trouble freeing his hand, think of what would've happened if a toddler did the same thing.
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.
@@999JWforever It’s not the buyers faults if the reviews are supposedly positive and it looks like a reliable tool. Just because it didn’t end up working doesn’t mean they could’ve had any possible way of knowing it was faulty beforehand. Stop excusing this one-of-many corporate shit show by victim blaming.
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.
Thank you for covering this. This litter box actually killed our cat. We only had her for six days. Edit: Our cat was the 5 month old kitten killed by the litter box. At the time I thought she had suffocated from the litter at first because my wife was the one who found her and pulled her out of the litter box, and she was heartbroken to find our cat lifeless so it was hard to get all the details at first. When she talked about it more though, our cat had actually died in the same position the Garfield plush toy was in.
i'm so, so sorry for your loss. i can't imagine the pain you're going through, man; this entire situation is a tragedy and i can only wish the absolute best for you. praying for you dude.
That's awful but take this as a lesson, don't buy cheap shit of Amazon. Edit: to be clear, i feel sympathy for him and his cat and wish for him to find any peace he can, and to heal after this tragic event. Im not a heartless monster, but we should takeaway that we can't expect cheap Amazon products to be safe these days, beyond automatic litter trays. Pay attention to what batteries you buy and what electrical devices you use so we don't need a "this scam is burning down houses" too.
The unfortunate thing is that this isn't an "automatic litterbox problem", because there's plenty of designs that don't even have a pinch risk like this - they have open fronts and rotate left-to-right, or have robust safety sensors.
@@skylius Mine was a gift but I've had to buy a few replacement liners over the last 2 years because my cats are very claw-happy. I was super relieved that it wasn't a video about that specific model... poor babies.
Or, like the one I have, It's more like a traditional litter box. Short, wide, open top. But after a cat leaves.. *After. It will stop if it detects a cat or too much pressure on the arm.* A raking arm comes across, scooping anything it catches under a small panel, you empty out the entire thing about once a week.
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.
"omg red stuff everywhere!" to not get banned by Chinese censorship, still banned for calling out a Chinese knock-off company. TikTok users are a living breathing joke on humanity.
whoever made this deserves hate as someone who's had multiple cats before this is stupid and murder and should be banned and never made again. It's sick, twisted and downright evil
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.
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.
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.
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
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???
"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
@@Newbie_hiblitz im not damn blind i see perfectly
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
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
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 🙏
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.
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 🍅 🍅 🍅
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.
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
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 :(
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
Engineer here: the door shouldn’t go upwards it should go down SLOWLY WITHOUT PRESSURE, BEING FED BY GRAVITY and then locking using hidden tabs that then get locked in. Sensors often fail or can be removed for any product, I worked for a company that made particle accelerators one of which was sent to Mexico where they ripped them off and ran the machine open in the plant irradiating everyone. If this comment gets enough likes I will waste my time making a function 3D model better than this product using the FREE cad software fusion 360 proving the company’s absolute ignorance and probably making it 1/4 the cost of involving electronic sensors!
mech engineering student here. How much do you make and what advice you got?
If your an engineer CHANGE THAT DAMN PFP
@@pododododoehoh3550you are NOT A STUDENT WITH THAT PFP EITHER 😭🙏
And like Charlie said, there should be a mechanical safety mechanism that doesn't rely on any sensors, like the lid popping off if there is resistance
@@R4nd0ms0meb0dy fuck no I’ve kept this since middle school and it’s staying!
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
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.)
@@LegallyinsaneLoL 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
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.
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
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
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
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.
7:40 Can you imagine how TERRIBLE it would be to be a real cat and die like this? This hurts my soul. :(
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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 .
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.
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
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.
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?
@@RandomPerson-cf3gt 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...
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.
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
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.
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
I have never been more thankful for scooping my cats litter box more then this, and not having a killer litter box
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 😎
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.
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
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
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!!
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.
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.
As a cat owner wtf who would ever sell this this is terrible..
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 :(
"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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MY CONTENT IS WAY BETTER
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Don't translate... 😅
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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
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.
TEAM RWGS!
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भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु………
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
This is terrifying. I can’t believe a company could be so damn evil. They are literally selling a guillotine.
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.
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
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!!
right, I hope the first person's child didn't see it either
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
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.
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.
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
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.
This is why you just buy a normal litter box
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.
@@LivvyDunneBabyGronkSkibidi ky5
@@LivvyDunneBabyGronkSkibidi ky5
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Yes, agree very much, R.I.P Mochi. but please don't say God's name in vain
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 🙏
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
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.
The companies that make these litter box death traps should be held accountable for causing emotional distress.
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.
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
@@Alantheguy2024 ????
@@Alantheguy2024 ??
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.
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. 🤣
THANK YOU for getting this out there.
This is barbaric and heartbreaking.
I immediately started to cry. The thought of just finding your pet dead, without you being there for them, is the reason why I can’t move out of my house because I don’t own all of my pets, but I’m the one who takes care of them all.
The thought that they could be injured or worse is why I stay up with my cats and go to sleep only when they do.
They’re apart of the family, moreso than others I’m blood related to. I really hope no other cat will be harmed by this litterbox.
It’s honestly traumatic :(
So sad to see.
If you really cared than the litterbox was in the litter....
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!
my reaction too… I went from wincing to wanting to throw up.
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.
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?
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.
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...?
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.
Don't translate... 🫢
भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु……….
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.
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 ❤
Rip
@@CrimsonMoonRisingrip
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.
There is no "fixing" this product, take it off shelfs, whoever made it, off yourself.
No seriously
Not reading but RWGS has a better content than this guy!
"I'm not joking... Do it."
Slowly too (The second bit)
@@AltRightGamingRWGStf is even rwgs??? And stfu
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.
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.
😢
@@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.
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.
This is also extremely dangerous to curious babies and toddlers. They need to ban these litter boxes ASAP!
This thought didn't even cross my mind but you are 100% right. This device is VERY dangerous.
Imagine what would happen if a puppy went and did something?
I was looking for this comment. This one also needs to be at the top.
omg i didnt even think about that
Nah that shit stinks and it's a pain to climb into so there's no way. It's not impossible but it's just not going to happen.
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
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....
This seriously needs to be recalled right now
A lot of people let their babies crawl around on the floor. Babies are curious too. What if a baby sticks it's head in there and gets killed?
😮 so true. Kids are known for playing in litter boxes. This situation could get way worse than it already is if this company doesnt recall these boxes and cease selling it
post-natal abortion
I was thinking the same thing, Unfortunately it’s likely that it would take an accident of that extant to stop the company. Even after all the horrible tragedies with the cats.. makes me sick
jesus christ and i thought it could not get any worse...
We didn't get a cat until I was 12, but had I been two or three, I could have easily been one of those babies. I was a curious child. This shit is terrifying!
I just wanted to add a note about the review change, a while ago I had a situation where I was mis-sold and item, it was a screen protector for my phone, when it arrived it turned out it had this glue on the inside that nearly destroyed my phone. As the reviews were amazing I was so confused, I left a review saying that this was awful, don't buy. But then was contacted by the company and promised as many free items, money etc if I changed my review to at least a 4 star or something. I am not saying that is what happened here, but that's my only experience with something like this.
Edit: Got to the end and it seems something similar actually happened with them.
Not enough unless I get all three of the latest apple products! 😂 But really, that is f**ed up.
she was promised that the item would be removed for amazon, which unfortunately, did work out like she planned :(
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
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.
That noise when the plushie was being crushed actually frightened me. :(
I’m not big into cats, but my lord, imagine the terror these poor owners had to see. :(
I feel so bad for them.
I had a cat passed away and she was a good cat. To me this automatic litter box horrified me.
the box sends them to ohio
@@purple6705Damn this is so funny 😐😐😐 you got the whole squad laughing 😐😐😐😐😐😐
@@purple6705what is wrong with you
@@purple6705wow 😐😐😐 so funny 😐😐😐 guys isn’t this funny? 😐😐😐
This might sound like fearmongering but I can imagine these companies doing the exact same thing with children's products: selling cheap crap that could seriously injure or kill a child - then hiding the bad reviews, re-packing the same shit under a different name, and avoiding legal consequences because they're based abroad.
You don't even have to imagine; things like this have happened before. For example, chew toys designed for toddlers specifically, that were found to be highly toxic, and that's just one example.
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!!
That's what happens when we resell crap from Aliexpress. Dropshipping should be fkin illegal or at least controlled better.
It's called white labelling. They aren't repackaging it once they get caught, they already do it so they control most of the market for that object. Very prevalent on places like Amazon because the more listings for an object that belongs to you (anything from charging leads, to cat litter boxes, to children's toys), the more likely a customer is to be exposed to your listing. It should be illegal. It leads to customers leaving a bad review on the item that caused harm/didn't work, but they still need the item that they bought. So they buy it again from the same company but under a different brand name - then it breaks again. Then they do it all over again and eventually the customer gets so fed up that they just keep the low quality item. They feel like there's no other options available - but this is because white labelling has artificially inflated and obfuscated the market
Just imagine if a curious kid investigated this death trap. An adult man had trouble freeing his hand, think of what would've happened if a toddler did the same thing.
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.
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.
Never wanted to game end someone so badly as much as the one making that death trap
Nice way of putting it!!!!! I'm going to remember that!
And I with you. I'm angry crying.
You're cringe! RWGS is way better!
Buyers fault 😂
@@999JWforever It’s not the buyers faults if the reviews are supposedly positive and it looks like a reliable tool. Just because it didn’t end up working doesn’t mean they could’ve had any possible way of knowing it was faulty beforehand. Stop excusing this one-of-many corporate shit show by victim blaming.
Rage baiting loser @@999JWforever
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 covering this. This litter box actually killed our cat. We only had her for six days.
Edit: Our cat was the 5 month old kitten killed by the litter box. At the time I thought she had suffocated from the litter at first because my wife was the one who found her and pulled her out of the litter box, and she was heartbroken to find our cat lifeless so it was hard to get all the details at first. When she talked about it more though, our cat had actually died in the same position the Garfield plush toy was in.
i'm so, so sorry for your loss. i can't imagine the pain you're going through, man; this entire situation is a tragedy and i can only wish the absolute best for you.
praying for you dude.
That's awful but take this as a lesson, don't buy cheap shit of Amazon.
Edit: to be clear, i feel sympathy for him and his cat and wish for him to find any peace he can, and to heal after this tragic event. Im not a heartless monster, but we should takeaway that we can't expect cheap Amazon products to be safe these days, beyond automatic litter trays. Pay attention to what batteries you buy and what electrical devices you use so we don't need a "this scam is burning down houses" too.
Sorry for your loss. This entire scam is a horrific thing, and I wish nothing but healing for you.
Thank you, I’m just glad there is more awareness about this scam product now.
That’s horrible and you deserve justice. Everyone who’s reading this should boost this comment
supposedly they rebranded and are still selling their garbage but cant find the new name
The unfortunate thing is that this isn't an "automatic litterbox problem", because there's plenty of designs that don't even have a pinch risk like this - they have open fronts and rotate left-to-right, or have robust safety sensors.
Yeah I have a whisker litter robot 4 thing is perfect has been since I got it like a year ago.
@@skylius Mine was a gift but I've had to buy a few replacement liners over the last 2 years because my cats are very claw-happy. I was super relieved that it wasn't a video about that specific model... poor babies.
Or, like the one I have, It's more like a traditional litter box. Short, wide, open top. But after a cat leaves.. *After. It will stop if it detects a cat or too much pressure on the arm.* A raking arm comes across, scooping anything it catches under a small panel, you empty out the entire thing about once a week.
@@dallasjones4062Nice
Some people hate the idea of an open litter box, I imagine, even if its auto cleaned.
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
This made me cry, this product absolutely should be stopped.
Dying Light guy?
Yeah, I had the resist the urge to tear up at this too..
"omg red stuff everywhere!" to not get banned by Chinese censorship, still banned for calling out a Chinese knock-off company. TikTok users are a living breathing joke on humanity.
As a guy who loves cats but can't have them for financial and practical reasons, you don't have to like animals to know that this is a problem.
i dont even own a cat! and i agree wholeheartedly, i shared the video with cat owning friends
whoever made this deserves hate as someone who's had multiple cats before this is stupid and murder and should be banned and never made again. It's sick, twisted and downright evil