uahpet Automatic Cat Water Fountain

My cats were TERRIFIED of this fountain, for the first couple of hours, but then they bravely crept up on it and drank. Now they love it. My elderly cat likes that she doesn't have to bend down to drink. They all like the gently running water and how clean the water stays. It was easy to assemble. It's almost silent - just a very faint whirring sound, and the dribbling of the water. The water doesn't splatter, drip, or spill. I have it on a plastic tray on the floor, because that's where I had the water dish, but so far it has not had a stray drop around it. The battery has not run low after a week of sensor mode. You can top up the water without taking it apart, if you are careful to pour it in the drinking basin slowly. But the big question: how hard is it to clean? I used to have a "cat fountain" that was a huge pain in the neck to clean. I had to take the pump apart into tiny fiddly parts, and the water reservoir had a dozen nooks and crannies that collected slime and mineral scale. I got rid of it and went to a gravity-flow water bottle but it was also hard to keep clean. I finally just gave up and used a water dish that I had to refill every day, and that the cats would spill. The uahpet fountain is completely different. You just turn it off by pressing the power button for three seconds, and lift the pump assembly off of the back. The little filter at the bottom of the intake tube comes right out for replacement (but I just rinsed it out - it didn't look dirty after a week.) Then you lift off the top, lift off the filter holder, remove the filter (again, I just rinsed it rather than put in a new one), and wash the parts with a soapy sponge. The parts have very few corners or crevices. Squeaky clean in just a couple of minutes, reassembled in less than a minute, refilled and back in its spot and turned back on in another minute. Total of about five minutes to disassemble, wash, reassemble, refill, and start back up. Get this fountain. Your kitties (or small dogs) need to drink plenty of water. This fountain makes it so easy to give them nice clean water constantly.