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cats like it better than me
I thought this would be the perfect solution for my sink drinkers. They do now drink out of this fountain. The best feature of this is the quiet motor, you can hardly hear it when more than a few feet away. the problem is that the motor starts to grind as soon as the water level goes down, which in our house is every day. So i find myself filling it all the time. You also have to have filters on hand. And it gets grimy quickly. I have several animals, so maybe if you have only one or two, it would not be as much of an issue. all in all, not a bad product, but could use a little improvement.
[Monday, December 01, 2008]
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Petmate Fresh Flow fountain - quality control problems
I've had three of these, and my mother has had two. I've found that the older ones are better than the newer ones: pumps last longer, are quieter, and the pieces fit together better. The new ones (I've bought three in two years, for two households) have come with defective pumps, parts that jam together and are then impossible to separate for cleaning, and with parts missing. I think the company moved their production to a different facility, or in the case of the pumps may have switched suppliers, and they can't maintain quality control.
That said, if you get a good unit, it's a very good product: quiet, easy to clean, and my cats and dog all took to it quickly. But it must be cleaned frequently to keep gunk out of the pump - especially if you have a dog that uses it as a post-dinner face wash!
[Sunday, November 30, 2008]
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Petmate Deluxe Fresh Flow Pet Fountain
I owned this product prior to ordering a new one as the pump shot craps on the old one. The old one I had worked great. The new one that I just got is very noisy. In fact we had to put it in a room downstairs so that it wouldn't keep us up at night. It seems to make a loud buzzing sound that is very irritating and distracting. Taking off the top part of the waterer to clean it is also very difficult with this new one. The old one was a cinch to clean. With this new one I have to pry the parts apart with a knife in order to disassemble it for cleaning. I don't know what happened in the manufacturing process but the new one is certainly not as good as the former product.
[Sunday, November 30, 2008]
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