The Danger of Cheap Gadgets: The Rise Of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes

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A white self-cleaning cat litter box which looks like a round basket with a cover and a grey doorway in the front (a bit like a front loading washing machine). A toy ginger cat is shown to be stuck in the door, which has closed on it. The back end of the toy cat is protruding out of the door.

Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a cat’s household — like feeding and cleaning Mr. Fluffles’ litter box — are generally a godsend, as they ensure a happy cat and a happy human. That is, unless said litter box-cleaning robot kills said cat. That’s the gruesome topic that [Philip Bloom], also known as the bloke of the One Man Five Cats channel on YouTube, decided to investigate after coming across a report about a certain Amazon-bought unit.

For some uses, one has to be really careful of trying to just save money. This is a good example of one such case.

See https://hackaday.com/2024/09/17/the-rise-of-self-cleaning-cat-killing-litter-boxes