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Almost perfect. A minor modification makes it great for us!
Almost perfect. The flower is too low for our cat. He'd gotten addicted to putting his head under the faucet and letting the water run down his face and then drink it. Weird but it worked for him. Initially it was funny and cute, but he got really insistent about it and it became obnoxious. So we had to figure out a solution. This looked like a good one and so we tried it. SO GLAD we did. He immediately knew it it was for him, but he couldn't get his face under the flower. So I fixed it. At the hardware store, I found a plastic pipe extender that tapers on both ends and is the same exterior diameter to that of the flower stem where it inserts into the unit (the hole also tapers). I supergluded this to the base of the stem and now the flower is high enough for him to use it the way that makes sense to his weird little brain. :)
UPDATE: 7/24/2017 - it's been running more or less nonstop now for seven months. We got a kitten a few months ago and he likewise figured it almost instantly and it became his preferred drinking fountain too.
I've seen negative reviews that said the pump stops working. So far it hasn't here. Knock on wood.
I don't do much to it beyond common sense maintenance. When the water supply is low, I can tell because I can increasingly hear the water return as it falls from the green bowl back in to the base. (not unpleasant, but noticeable).
When I hear that - every 3-4 days - I unplug the USB connector from the wall charger, take the green bowl off and rinse the bucket well before refilling it.
Less frequently, I rinse the green bowls filter with hot water. (it rarely seems to need it)
I never let the water supply drop so low as to have the pump run dry.
I saw a negative review that talked about the wall plug getting hot.
I haven't noticed that myself, but it uses a standard USB wall charger so presumably I'll be able to swap that out for another (who doesn't have three of them a drawer right? lol) if that should start happening :)
March 2017 · Pet Supplies · verified purchase