I've read all of the other questions & answers about the fountains but I still can't decide on which one to get!
Which of these have you tried and would you recommend it?
1. CatIt Drinking Fountain (the easiest for me to get!)
2. The Petmate Fresh Flow Fountain
3. Drinkwell Deluxe Fountain
Please give a lot of details!
I have the petmate one and I haven't been all that thrilled with it. It gets stopped up frequently and is rather loud.
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aka "purifying pet fountain" It's a dish that comes with a detachable air pump that circulates the water to keep it from becoming ...
The Drinkwell Fountain dispenses a unrelieved 5 inch stream of water. For filtration, it uses a great charcoal filter to get rid of bad tastes and nasty odors. It will authority 50 ounces of water, but you can buy an additional reservoir and with it, it will restrain one gallon of water. One of the awards it has won is the Best New Cat Product grant and it is endorsed by vets all over the country.
One customer reported that is was godlike at not splashing water everywhere, in fact, it didn`t splash at all. Also, it didn`t tip over very mild and the motor is quiet, you can hardly hear it. The reservoir did poverty to be filled every couple days.
The Petmate Fresh Flow Deluxe Water Fountain is a stainless screw up one's courage to the sticking point system that is very quiet and also has a charcoal filter, that needs to be replaced periodically. This fountain can be put together in rightful a few minutes and there are no tools necessary to assemble it.
There is also a Flow Control Lever and a replaceable eliminate included. A customer said he loved the sleek look of the fountain. Though it is a little noisy, once the cats got used to it, they couldn`t stay away from it. as per www.articlesfactory.com
I bought one of these several months ago. It was great for about two weeks, and since then it’s been nothing but trouble.
To begin with, the filter is essentially worthless. It has a few small, loosely packed granules of activated charcoal in a big bag made of white fuzzy filter material that doesn’t even reliably collect the algae that inevitably form in the thing. The filters don’t last months, as the instructions claim — more like a week or two until they’re hopelessly contaminated with algae and have to be discarded lest they cause the whole bowl to gunk up.
Oh, did I mention the algae? This thing is just full of nooks and crannies that get splashed with water — but don’t stay wet or have continual flow over them — perfect for breeding the icky green stuff. It’s nearly impossible to clean it well enough to stop the growth once it starts; all you can really do is slow it down enough that — if you’re lucky — it won’t make the water taste bad or (worse) make your pets sick. In fact, we thought we’d sanitized the entire thing using bleach (no easy feat, and *not* something that should be necessary) only to see the algae regrow twice before we figured out that it was even inside the pump, which we had to disassemble into 3 pieces to clean — well, clean, more or less. I’m not going to dump bleach into the pump, it has metal parts.
I pin the blame for this one on the crummy filter, first and foremost, and on the product design that creates dark, damp, hard-to-clean surfaces everywhere. Oh, and did I mention that the filters are hard to find? Big chain pet stores are happy to sell you this water bowl (I assume they make more margin than on the Drinkwell, which was the original product in this category) but can’t be bothered to stock the filters. There are aquarium filters in similar sizes — those would actually even do some good, unlike the Petmate filters — but the cheap pump won’t generate enough pressure to give a decent flow rate through them. Nice.
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