GreenKing

i don't usually make posts like this, but this is a truly upsetting topic to me as a lifelong cat owner, so i feel i have a duty to share my knowledge with others.

there is a type of automatic litterbox for cats being sold that is EXTREMELY dangerous and has killed numerous cats through blunt force trauma, suffocation, etc. this litterbox is being sold under different brand names and logos, so i will include the picture of the model and two links to informational videos with more evidence and eloquence than i am able to provide.

please consider not having this type of litterbox in your home for your furry friends. me and my 16 year old tortie, puddy, want the best for all your kitty friends

image of litterbox below:

here are my two video links that provide proof and testimonials of this harmful product:

This Scam is Killing Cats by penguinz0

Basically when it tries to shut the door, the safety sensors don't work for shit, and there are zero backup safety features in case of something blocking the door. It will simply force the door shut regardless, the motor whining and straining against it.

Multiple animals have had their heads caught in this mechanism and in one case, the self-cleaning cycle trapped a small cat underneath it, causing suffocation.

Every time someone tries to warn others about the product via reviews or PSAs, the company simply wipes all product pages and comes back under a different name.

Hope this further description is useful for awareness of how god awful and gruesome these dropshipped review-evading products are.

(*the sensors work marginally better with a firmware update that you would have no way of knowing about without paying attention to the optional app, the company obviously does not try to make customers aware of this either)

Also, an article link from someone else in the notes:

"Even if you think you know where a dish has been, no you don't.

Wash every dish as if it's been shoved up someone's ass."

A woman with no mental illness can come home and hit her children. A man with a perfectly healthy childhood can manipulate his employees into working overtime with no pay. A woman who is respected in her community can commit a rape. A man who treats most patients perfectly can be medically abusive to others.

Abuse is not a pathology. It is not a function of inhumanity. It is not inevitable. If it was any of those things, it would be morally neutral in the way that a hurricane is, something that you just have to get potential victims out of the way of. Instead, abuse is an action or set of actions that the person chooses to take, and could have chosen not to take. That’s the whole reason that abuse is a moral wrong: that abusers could have chosen otherwise.

Most importantly?

There is nothing separating you, the person reading this, from being an abuser, except for the choice to be careful and kind to others. Not if you were abused. Not if you have little societal power. Not if you just really don’t want to be one. There is no immutable fact about you that makes you immune to abusing others. There are only the choices that you make in how you interact with other human beings.

As usual, this is just a meme for laughs. Don't take it seriously. Feel free to make your own. There are no right/wrong answers.