So after eyeing it for years as something my cats would surely love, seeing as how they spend a lot of time drinking out of the bathroom sink faucet, with my new salary increase in hand I spent the $50 on this drinking fountain for my cats, and they hate it.
They won't have anything to do with it. It's the sound it makes, apparently. And possibly the taste. There's a little motor inside that pumps the water, and they just don't trust it. They can deal with a vacuum cleaner, but not the water pump. I even took all other water sources away to make them drink out of it, but then I felt bad because they so clearly loathed it. Okazaki Fragment took to drinking scuzzy water sitting in bowls in the kitchen sink, rather than use the fancy water fountain (did I mention it is filtered water, too?). I spent lots of time repositioning it, cleaning it, everything short of drinking out of it myself, to get them to use it.
The fountain has now been discarded into the closet with all of our other clutter, and now we're back to wasting water by letting it drip out of the sink off and on. (I've tried putting it in glasses for them a la Malcolm and Angus, but that's not good either). That's $50 I can't get back.
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it's just as well. the water isn't as clean as we might think. our fountain gave our kitties chin acne. they *did* like to drink from it though.
I really think you just needed to *show* them how to use it yourself!
don't laugh too hard because i totally did show my cats how to use it. i am such a spaz. anyways, it took them a really, very long tome to get used to it, and now they are. thats my story.
-sbkt
sbkt: did you really drink out of it yourself? that's awesome.
yes, yes. i did. but i swear i've never *shown* them how to use a litterbox. ah ha ha ha.
Sell it on Craigslist for $60!
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