Dangerous Automatic Litter Box: Cat Deaths and Scams

Automatic litter boxes are killing cats, posing a grave danger despite being marketed under various brands.

### Automatic Litter Box Scandal: A Deadly Product Endangering Cats
* 😿 An automatic litter box has been identified as a **dangerous device** that has led to the **deaths of several cats**, operating more like a "**pseudo guillotine**" than a safe litter solution.
* 🐱 A YouTube channel named Onean Five Cats has released a detailed breakdown of the product's hazards, highlighting the **tragic stories of cats like Mochi and Charlie**, who fell victim to this **deadly contraption**.
* 🛒 This product is sold under various brands and continues to be rebranded, making it **difficult for consumers to trace its origins** or **hold a single entity accountable for the dangers it poses**.
* 📉 Kari Jay, a cat owner, shared her horrifying experience on TikTok, describing how her cat Moshi was found **hanging from the litter box**, illustrating the **real threat these machines pose**.
* ⚠ Despite claims of safety features like weight sensors and infrared detection, investigations reveal that these mechanisms often **fail**, allowing the device to **operate dangerously** while a cat is nearby.
* 💰 In a shocking turn of events, Amtoy, the manufacturer, reportedly offered a financial settlement to a cat owner to **delete negative reviews and videos** about the product, raising **ethical concerns about their business practices**.
* 🚫 The litter box remains available for purchase under different names, as the company continues to **evade responsibility by simply rebranding after negative publicity**.
* 🔍 It is crucial for consumers to be aware of the **dangers associated with these automatic litter boxes** and to seek **safer alternatives**, as many unsuspecting buyers may unknowingly **put their pets at risk**.

I've covered a lot of scams over the years, but this product might just take the cake for being the most diabolical. It's an automatic litter box that is killing cats. It kind of stops being a litter box and becomes like a pseudo guillotine that executes some of the cats that use it. It is horrifying and heartbreaking. There's a YouTube channel called Onean Five Cats that just posted an incredible breakdown going over how dangerous and deadly this device is. Those two adorable cats pictured there, Mochi and Charlie, are two of the who knows how many victims of this death trap. As a cat owner myself, the thought of this is really infuriating, and from what I can tell through looking it up, this automatic litter box is a very popular one, and it's being sold under numerous different brands. It keeps getting rebranded or repackaged and sold by a ton of different other companies, so it's not like it's coming from one place that you can always track down, like, Oh, this is, you know, from Jerry Inc. designed

to kill Tom and every other cat or anything. This is a bunch of different brands selling the same device with the same problem that can lead to your cat just being killed by it. Which shared a video on Tik Tok from a lady called Kari Jay, who described how her automatic litter box killed a cat, a beautiful one-year-old Siese girl called Moshi. Yes, yesterday morning, um, we woke up, me and my 2-year-old daughter, and I went to find my cat, and she was um, hanging from um, her litter box. It had closed on her neck, and her body was hanging out, and there was red stuff um, all over, like everywhere. I'm guessing you can't say blood on TikTok, but the scene she's describing is consistent with reports from other cat owners that also lost their beloved pets to this machine as well. I just can't even imagine that. Even just hearing about it makes me angry. If I found that my cat IO had been killed by one of these, that would have me fully go John Wick. Like, I know I kind of look

like a diet Great Value John Wick right now just by default, but that would have me fully go like unhinged with it. She didn't say what machine it was, but she did clarify in the follow-up video that it wasn't an actual lit robot, but something she had bought off of Amazon. She didn't name it in this video either, but she did in the comments. Her videos started to go viral, but then just a few days after they were uploaded, they were gone. So I started to investigate. I needed to know if this was real and if potentially deadly machines were being sold. It's Not Unusual for videos to be taken down either by the user or by a company looking to salvage their image if it paints them in a bad light. So one man, five cats, was paying attention, noticed the videos got taken down, and launched his own investigation to see if the claims were real or maybe it was all one big hoax by some rival litter box company trying to besmirch the good name of AMS toys. Had already found the one

that she named on Amazon a few days earlier sold under the brand AMS toy astonishingly. They even called it litter robot by amtoy using whisker's litter robot font. This is absolutely not a litter robot, and it shows just how dodgy this company is. This whole thing is fishy from top to bottom. This company itself is extraordinarily sketchy, so they're trying to pretend to be a more successful, more reputable company that sells the litter robot to confuse consumers. It's actual infringement like this; this is fraud, at least in my opinion. I'm not an expert, but they are calling it the litter robot, which is already something that exists by a different company, and it's a completely different device. The litter robot by amtoy is as much of a robot as me doing this. It doesn't really function the way it should because it shouldn't be [__] killing cats, you know what I mean? It's not the litter robot; it's the [__] robot, and amtoy knows that they are

doing a classic knockoff like this is something that you see in every industry. When something gets popular, you're going to see different companies and brands take the exact same thing, even call it the exact same thing, even though it's not the real product, because it's hoping to confuse buyers into getting theirs instead of the real one. Usually, they'll make it more appealing by making it cheaper, which is exactly what AMS toys litter robot did. It is a cheap automatic litter robot option that people who are familiar with these kind of devices have probably heard the name litter robot before, so they felt that it was trustworthy. In a review section, there was a photo of one covered in blood stating that it had killed their cat. It wasn't under her name, but it had to be her machine. But after the TikTok videos were removed, that review no longer had the photo on it and was now positive. Then a few days later, the entire listing for the AMS toy was gone. Another timeless classic from these evil

companies. They put this product out there when it becomes apparent to most consumers that it's a scam or in this case more a scam. It is actually killing the intended user. They just vanish. They just disappear into a puff of smoke. Also, the review being changed. I haven't actually seen it to that level before. Like, it's very common for these scam companies to have paid reviews, like shills come in and review, or in certain cases, Bots. When the review site doesn't have a lot of Protections in place, you'll see a lot of Bot reviews. But this one's really weird. Not only did they try and bury that review about the cat that was murdered by their product, they changed it to good machine with cute ears. That's like the fakest sounding review ever. And in a case like this, that's like someone leaving a review for the Brazen bull, like was boiled alive but man did it look cool on the outside, four stars. These people are [ __ ] up. It's not like they don't know.

What's going on here? They are clearly aware that their product is killing cats, and yet what they're doing to fix that is hiding that and then just rebranding. Like, they just say, All right, we'll just try again in a week. That was so good, I think I'll try it a second time. What about second breakfast? Here we go, new brand, same machine. It'll probably kill a couple cats, and when that happens, we'll just do it all over again. Rinse and repeat. There was a lot of very similar-looking machines in different names on Amazon and Wayfair in the US, not just under the AMS toy name. After looking at the photos and videos of them, I saw a potential danger, so I had to buy one to see for myself. And they didn't actually send me the one I ordered, which was identical to the AMS toy version minus the ears. But what I received was still the same fundamental design. It's one of the countless generic machines which are generally bought in bulk and branded by a random company. That's why you see so

many identical ones online with different names without the ears. This [ __ ] actually does just look like a minion. It looks like a minion that was trapped in a Noir film. So, as you can see, this machine is being used by a ton of different sellers under a ton of different names, a ton of different brands, but it Remains the Same, fundamentally terrible product that can kill a cat. I immediately started testing it straight out the box, as shipped, and had my fears confirmed. [Music] I don't even know how I'm supposed to freak. Yikes, that is horrible seeing the Garfield plushy get annihilated there like it was about to be turned into [ __ ] lasagna paints a pretty clear picture of how these cats are being killed by it. So, it is a single piece of plastic in only one opening that's mounted to the base, and it rotates upwards when it's doing its cleaning cycle. So, if a cat peaks in, which is very normal behavior for cats apparently like

my cat does it IO. Anytime she uses the litter box, she like looks down there to make sure that it's not alive. Because if it is, she'd go down there and swap the [ __ ] out of it a thousand times. Give it like the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, well just slapping the poop around. So, it's not unusual, and it should be expected that a cat might look into the litter box once it finishes, and that shouldn't be a death sentence for the cat. But this rotates on the y AIS, so as it cycles, the opening closes. Because that piece of plastic opening is attached to the base and not split in. If a cat gets caught in it, then there's no escape. There's the weight sensors, an infrared sensor on the front entrance that will pause the machine if a cat gets close to it or enters it. The third safety measure is the pinch detector. Now this has sensors, but clearly they don't work very well. The sensors just supposed to be in place to prevent this kind of

thing from happening where if there's still a cat like around while it's doing the cleaning cycle. It should abort that mission like it shouldn't continue the cleaning cycle because it could be dangerous to the cat. Here I'm pressing down, putting my weight on it, and covering the infrared sensor. Both indeed paw are cycling briefly. It should not resume like this. If a cat put its paws on the front and peered in, it should wait until those triggered sensors were cleared. Instead, it just pauses briefly and resumes, which is making both senses redundant. Now, a pinch detector should be getting a sense of resistance from here and reversing, but it doesn't. It carries on. God, that really hurts, dude. Almost just sacrificed his hand to the AMS toy blood Lord here. So clearly, these sensors are not effective. Now, they did roll out an update on the app to fix the sensors, which did actually fix them, but I still argue that that's just not good enough. It is a terrible product. Even with functioning sensors, it is still a dog.

[ __ ] design that is inherently dangerous for cats. There is no reason why it should be rotating upwards and have a [ __ ] fixed base that it's rotating against. Because technology breaks no matter how much you like fix something or roll out changes, there's always going to be malfunctions. And in the case of this putrid [ __ ], it's going to cost the cat its life. Other automatic litter boxes that I've seen don't rotate upwards. Often, most of them rotate onto their side, but the ones that do also don't rotate against the fixed base. They rotate against something that can pop off. So even if a cat somehow does find itself stuck on one of the other machines that's going upwards because they're in two pieces, the top pops off, and the cat is alive and gets to live to see another day. Here, that is not the case. The inside rim of the plastic opening is actually quite sharp too. So that combined with the force and the three safety measures all failing to do

their job made this machine incredibly dangerous. Once I had finished these initial tests, I connected it to the 2ye smart app to see if there were any firmware updates, and yeah, there was one. So I installed it, and amazingly, the sensor started to work properly, including the pinch detector. One man, five cat mentions that there was no indication that there needed to be a firmware update. There was nothing in the manual that even talked about safety, really. So the vast majority of buyers of this product would have no idea that they need to download and update the firmware to have the sensors function properly. When you purchase something, you're expecting it to be in working order. That's not going to just be some kind of [__] saw trap for your cat. From my experience in my Facebook group, I know that many people don't bother with apps, which means if they have one of these, then they won't have the safer firmware. Are the sellers on Amazon, Wayfair, and AliExpress contacting people who've bought them to tell them that

they must update the firmware. Well, if this was a single machine sold by a well-known brand, I'm sure they would. But with all these different random companies, it's doubtful. I just really hope that they are. I am extremely confident that they're not. I would eat my [ __ ] left shoe if it turns out any of these sellers bothered reaching any of the buyers to tell them to upgrade the firmware, to update it. Otherwise, their cat might die in it. I feel like most of the companies would be really weary of sending an email like that to the buyers because it might put them into legal hot water or something. They probably wouldn't even alert the buyers to those safety concerns in the first place, and they'd just sit there crossing their fingers hoping that their cat doesn't die because then it might be bad for their brand, and they'll have to restart again under a different name like they're doing countless times. Then there's just how good are the sensors, how reliable are they, sensors, especially cheap sensors, and looking at

the build quality of this. I highly doubt the sensors are high quality, so if the sensors stop working, then you still have this incredibly dangerous design of the opening closing off with no way to escape. It's something OneMan5Cats also mentions here, and then also talks about how bad the build quality is, and how it's just, even aside from being a death trap, a really awful automatic litter box. Now, he actually did get in contact with the initial poster of that TikTok video who lost her cat to one of these, and it's really interesting what we learned from her. Amtoy had given her a financial settlement to delete the videos and the Amazon review as part of the settlement. Amoy would remove the machine from sale. Her husband was unable to delete the Amazon review, so he changed it to a positive one. So, that solves the mystery of the deleted TikTok videos and the changed Amazon review. So, they were financially compensated by this company that had led to the death of their cat to take down the videos and also get rid

of the Amazon review. What a scummy organization, and apparently, they had stopped the sale of that product. Bog, I know they're not. They're just selling it under a different name now. No doubt out in my mind. One man, five cats, goes on to say that he doesn't blame her for taking the settlement. He mentions he doesn't know how much it was, but she mentioned it wasn't a lot. The main reason she did it was to get the product to stop being sold on Amazon, but she just didn't know how widespread of an issue this is. This isn't just one company selling it. It's not just Amtoy. This is that product being sold by a ton of different other sellers, and I'm sure whoever's behind Amtoy is still selling it themselves, but under a different name. So ultimately, it didn't stop getting sold as a result of this. Unfortunately, Carly also told me about a lady called Trish who messaged her to say that her cat had also been killed by the Am's toy machine, and she

put me in touch with her. Trish's kitten, Charlie, was 3 months old and over the minimum weight that the manual states a cat should be before turning on autocycling. On the 19th of July, Trish got a video call from her 13-year-old daughter frantically telling her that Charlie's neck was caught in the closed opening. I'll go ahead and stop the story here. It is heartbreaking, like it is awful. It's these goddamn vultures that are so hungry to just push out these scams, these really cheaply made products, to try and make a quick buck off deceiving consumers into purchasing them by emulating popular brands, and people are just none the wiser. It's on Amazon, and most people have like some level of faith in an Amazon product, at least not going to kill someone, right? And these [ __ ] vermin know that, so they put it on Amazon. They know it's dangerous and deadly and do not care because they're trying to make some money on top of

these kitten corpses. Trish also shared with me a review on the now-deleted AMS toy Amazon listing about a cat that had also gotten stuck in the opening, but the owner was able to rescue her in time. It doesn't end there. There was another Facebook post in my Facebook group that shared this story about a 5-month-old kitten that was found suffocated in the waste. This one actually had the cat pass away in a different fashion as opposed to being trapped between the opening in the base. This one got trapped under the scooper and suffocated in the litter. Now, the last sentence here is something very important to note: perhaps warn your customers since it's the most affordable option I've seen for a litter robot. That's what makes these so popular and why they're being resold by so many brands, because they're manufactured super cheap and cheaper than all of the alternatives. So, a lot of people have been purchasing them not knowing that it could kill their pets, and since companies like AMS toy just delete the

listing or pay people off to delete negative reviews and take down videos talking about it. People don't even get the information to let them know that it could be dangerous 'cause they just get a fresh listing with the same machine and none of the reviews are there anymore. I tried to contact am toy to get a statement, but their online presence is very minimal, and especially now that the Amazon listings are gone. I did find their YouTube channel, so I left the comment asking if they could get in touch with me. They didn't reply or email me. Instead, they deleted my comments. Deleting seems to be their way of dealing with things. I hope this video can help get all of them removed from s everywhere and get to the people who already have them to warn them. I wasn't surprised that they deleted that comment. I was actually more shocked that they had a YouTube account still up. Usually, when a company, you know, goes tits up and decides to sail off into the sunset before rebranding and selling the same

[ __ ] they make sure to scrub the entire online presence of their previous scam. Amtoy forgot one clearly, so overall massive thanks to one man five cats for talking about this, showcasing it, and warning people. Because I imagine there are a lot of people that watched his video and may have actually had one in their home, and it probably saved their cat's life. Like unironically, it probably saved that animal's life. Uh, hopefully the products can be removed from Amazon and every other seller that has them. It's a dangerous product. It's a scam product, so it should be very easy to just slap to the sh Shadow realm. I would think so, yeah. Great work by one man five cats, and my heartbreaks for anyone that lost their cat to this thing. Hopefully going forward, this product will just not exist anymore. That's really about it. Go check out one man 5 cats Channel if you do want to see like good automatic litter box options that aren't deadly or dangerous. And uh, yeah, that's really

This Scam is Killing Cats

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An automatic litter box is allegedly killing cats, with reports of it functioning like a guillotine.

The device is popular and sold under various brands, making it difficult to track down.

A TikTok user shared a heartbreaking story of her cat's death from the litter box, leading to an investigation that revealed the sketchy practices of the company selling the device.

Knockoff products are common in every industry, with companies using similar names and cheaper prices to confuse buyers.

The AMS Toys litter robot received negative reviews, including a photo of a cat's death, but the review was later changed to positive and the listing was eventually removed.

The generic design of these machines is replicated by multiple sellers, raising concerns about their safety and effectiveness, with the product's design potentially causing harm to cats.

The cat's behavior of checking the litter box is normal, but the design of the automatic litter box is flawed and potentially dangerous.

The safety measures, including weight sensors, infrared sensors, and pinch detectors, are ineffective and fail to prevent harm to the cat.

The rotating mechanism and fixed base design create a risk of trapping the cat, making the product inherently dangerous despite any software updates.

The Dangers of a Flawed Automatic Litter Box

The machine's initial tests revealed dangerous flaws, which were only fixed after a firmware update that most buyers were unaware of.

The lack of safety information in the manual and the random nature of the sellers made it unlikely for customers to be notified about the necessary update.

The poor quality of the sensors and the machine's design raised concerns about its reliability and potential to harm pets, leading to a financial settlement for a customer whose cat died as a result.

The Dangerous Impact of Cheaply Made Pet Products

A woman took a settlement to stop a harmful product from being sold on Amazon, but the company is now using a different name.

The product has caused multiple cat deaths, with various sellers offering it.

The lure of its low price has made it popular, leading to widespread sales and tragic incidents for unsuspecting pet owners.

Amtoy's Controversial Practices and Dangerous Products

Amtoy has been accused of deleting negative reviews and videos to erase their troubling past, with a minimal online presence after losing their Amazon listings.

The company's tactic of deleting comments and maintaining a YouTube account has raised eyebrows, leading to criticism for their handling of the situation.

A YouTuber, One Man Five Cats, has been praised for highlighting the issue and warning potential customers, with hopes that the dangerous products will be removed from all sellers.