11/09/2024
Today we want to cover a very important but sad topic - this is going to be a long read - so you might take a coffee.
"The Danger of Self Cleaning Litter Boxes"
I know, this is probably more an "American thing" - but since they are sold over Amazon, Ali and other platforms, I thought it was important enough to talk about it.
Self Cleaning Litter Boxes might be a good thing, if you are handicapped, or an elderly person. Also they might be a good addition to regular litter boxes - but I personally would not take them as only solution.
I saw a few of them here in the local pet stores in Vienna, and most of them seem to be too small for big Maine C**ns anyway - so I never really thought about them. Beside that they are really super expensive. (400€ and up)
But lately I thought of buying one for my mother - she is getting older now and on some days has a hard time keeing down to clean the toilet of her Maine C**n.
Then I stumbled over two specific videos about this topic, and they really made me sick and angry.
I uploaded the videos and more infos onto my server so you can download it and watch it yourself (Link below)
Many cats had to die in such lethal traps - the sellers and the platforms couldn´t care less ... and here we have to talk about Amazon and how it deals with negative reviews.
Customers are offered gift cards that will be activated, once they leave a 5 star review ... negative reviews with photos or videos are either deleted, or the customer is bribed to change to a 5 star review.
The companies just continue to sell their crap under a different name.
Needless to say that 95% of them are made in China ...
The problem I have with that - and that leads me to the second video I uploaded - is that platforms like Amazon are getting more and more taken over by corrupt sellers, who knowingly sell you dangerous products.
All made in China.
The guy in the second video is actually a Tech-Guy but he´s also a devoted cat dad.
He has a complete different approach to this scam with the Self Cleaning Toilets - from a more technical point of view.
He´s talking very fast - but in a nutshel - he compares this toilets with fuses being sold on Amazon that won´t blow up, when you feed them with the wrong amplitude. Which they should - because that´s what they´re here for.
So here is the link to the Server - please feel free to download everything you wish and share it.
https://cloud.disroot.org/s/EA9Kty7TkkXr5bw
The first video was made by Philip Bloom and his YT channel is about his 5 cats:
https://www.youtube.com/
There is also a private FB group from Philip who tested all these litter boxes and you can join it here:
https://tinyurl.com/22cpc2cj
this is his FB page:
https://tinyurl.com/27cjxxew
The other one is Louis Rossmann - he owns a company that repairs electronic devices. He has 3 cats - so of course this is also concerning him.
This is his YT channel - if you are intrerested in his content:
https://www.youtube.com/
