Partner 2.5L Auto Cat Water Fountain - Stainless Steel Pet Drinking Flower Design

Angela Armour-StarrAngela Armour-Starr: I have three cats, recently when I switched food brands (not a good idea), one of my male cats developed a UTI, thankfully that was caught in the early stages! Anyhow, I already had three water stations throughout the house, but decided to add a fourth, and opted to try this brand.

We have hard water where I live, so, I have a water cooler with filtered water, and use this in the drinking fountain. I have cleaned it as recommended, although, I have found that the pump doesn't get all gunky as was the case with previous brands (I used filtered/bottled water with those as well). It was easy to assemble, thus that makes it easy to disassemble for cleaning, the included brushes also make it easy for cleaning. Plus, it is extremely quiet! All the kitties love it, they had to get used to it at first, I haven't had a fountain in about a year. I placed it on a tray next to the kitchen sink, which made the transition easier. They prefer this one over their other three water bowls.

Previously, I had tried a couple of other brands (I won't name them here), twice I had to have one replaced, despite following the recommended cleaning schedule, the motor burnt out within two...

United States on Apr 05, 2021

Jessica F.: Maybe I'm a little overly enthusiastic about a water fountain, but if you've been searching for the "right one" then you know what I went through to get to this point. (Review of *this* fountain in paragraph 3, but if you want to see how I got there, read on) I originally had a PetMate, a little fountain, and it was OK, or I didn't know that I could do better (isn't that all of our problem in our 20s?). It was hard to clean, it always looked dirty, it got really noisy when the water was running low (although, my bad). However, the motor ran for years, and we ran it dry many times. It wasn't cutting it with the new dog, though. He trashed the water, he pulled it around all over the kitchen, and I was refilling it all the time. It was time for an upgrade.

I did my googling, researching, consumer reporting, and I saw tons of fountains. I was looking for something with a larger capacity because we have more animals to water. I was tempted by something stylish, maybe chrome, something heavier because the dog pushed the other one around a lot. Low and behold, someone gifted us a Pioneer Pet fountain, the chrome one (the $40 one, which I thought was actually the $70 one, but now...

United States on Jul 30, 2020

Joshua: Overall this works very well and there's not a lot of room for improvement. The pump does make a fairly audible noise to my ears at least, but it's pretty much par for the course for pumps like these. I don't think a lower wattage (and thus quieter) one would have sufficient pressure to push the water up all the way -- they've pretty much tuned this almost exactly as needed (so really until pump technology improves this is what we're stuck with.) Obviously the water falling will make noise, but they could have had a bit of plastic sticking up where the water lands and it wouldn't have made so much noise. It's really not that big of a deal unless you're sitting right next to it though and many people find the sound of lightly falling water soothing anyway.

But it's worth it. I've seen too many cats get food and stuff in their water bowl, but this is too high for that and has a filter besides, so the water stays much better. I don't know if the cats actually like it any better flowing like this, but they will get more clean water for longer this way, so in the end this is actually far better for them. I think the biggest problem is with smaller bowls and waterers they often...

United States on Mar 25, 2019