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Jan. 29th, 2008 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenI think my automatic cat-watering device is on its way out the door.
We bought this cheap, devastatingly simple device from a pet store before Christmas to hold over our kitties while various parties were in and out of the apartment over the holidays. It's fairly ingenious: you fill a 2L bottle and when you screw it into the base and turn it upside down, it fills the resevoir until the fill line submerges the bottle opening. As the bowl drains, more air can get into the bottle and water comes down. Perfect, really.
Except that Oscar, bless 'im, is dead fascinated by the water coming out of the bottle neck. He keeps trying to stick his nose up the thing or he gets a paw around it and water is everywhere. And he doesn't stop when he's gotten more to come out. He keeps at it until there's two liters of water all over the floor. He is so intent on getting at the water or playing with the bubbles or something. He bats at that thing like Wally chases invisible flies: constantly and with determination.
I've tried to velcro the device down, keep it rigidly set on a towel (or at least use the towel to contain the mess--no dice), and my latest effort was a rubber mat with little fingers to hold it in place. Also failure. There's got to be a better way for us to be lazy cat parents; to have a dry floor; and to have happy kitties. There's this as an option, which has the benefit of being flat-topped so I could just put a brick on it to keep Oscar from moving it around. Seems that most people are frustrated with how easily it topples over, too, though. I'm not entirely sanguine about buying something that is, for all intents and purposes the same thing I've got in another shape, but I seem to remember![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hslayer and viridian having one. You guys? Does that work well for you? Do you just have better behaved cats?
We bought this cheap, devastatingly simple device from a pet store before Christmas to hold over our kitties while various parties were in and out of the apartment over the holidays. It's fairly ingenious: you fill a 2L bottle and when you screw it into the base and turn it upside down, it fills the resevoir until the fill line submerges the bottle opening. As the bowl drains, more air can get into the bottle and water comes down. Perfect, really.
Except that Oscar, bless 'im, is dead fascinated by the water coming out of the bottle neck. He keeps trying to stick his nose up the thing or he gets a paw around it and water is everywhere. And he doesn't stop when he's gotten more to come out. He keeps at it until there's two liters of water all over the floor. He is so intent on getting at the water or playing with the bubbles or something. He bats at that thing like Wally chases invisible flies: constantly and with determination.
I've tried to velcro the device down, keep it rigidly set on a towel (or at least use the towel to contain the mess--no dice), and my latest effort was a rubber mat with little fingers to hold it in place. Also failure. There's got to be a better way for us to be lazy cat parents; to have a dry floor; and to have happy kitties. There's this as an option, which has the benefit of being flat-topped so I could just put a brick on it to keep Oscar from moving it around. Seems that most people are frustrated with how easily it topples over, too, though. I'm not entirely sanguine about buying something that is, for all intents and purposes the same thing I've got in another shape, but I seem to remember
hslayer and viridian having one. You guys? Does that work well for you? Do you just have better behaved cats?
