DownyPaws Cat Water Fountain Cordless 84oz 2 5L Fursink Wireless Pet Water Fountains for Cats Indoor Battery Operated

This fountain is compact, well-designed, quiet, and convenient. I bought it for my ancient kitty to encourage her to drink more, and it absolutely does that. The assembly is easy to put together and instructions are clear. Being cordless is such a nice feature and the battery seems to last a long time (on motion detection mode). My only regret is not getting it sooner! Read more

I bought this because it was rechargeable and I could keep it in the shower to prevent the Bengal cat from splashing water on my floor. It has worked perfectly for over a year. Then the last time I charged it, no water would come out. (A very distraught cat!). I contacted DownyPaws through Amazon, receiving an immediate replay. They offered a Fix, and it worked, easy as can be. Water is flowing the cats are relieved. Wondered customer service to a great product!!! Highly recommend this quiet, easy clean, and reliable cat waterer. Read more

I was looking for a cordless fountain for my daughters room. She has room for a fountain, but not near an outlet. Anyway, I saw this one and decided to give it a try, the price was affordable and it was easy to set up. Charge the outflow part of the fountain before adding water to the bowl, let the filter sit in clean water for about five minutes before putting it in, and you're all set. It has a button on top of the battery pack/fountain outflow and you can have steady stream or motion activated. We opted for the latter as it saves battery power. It's fairly quiet, and the cat loves it. It was well worth the money. Be sure you order extra filters and sponges if you get one, it only comes with one of each, and needs to be changed every 2 - 4 weeks. Read more

my cats are obsessed. I love the sensor idea, way better than one that's always flowing and always needs refilled. this lasts about a week with 2 very thirsty cats. I love the simple cube shape and slightly transparent water bowl part. it is not noisy at all! you can only hear it flow when it's ready to be refilled because it can't flow smoothly. unfortunately, however, it has not lasted long, about a year. it doesn't charge, reset, or work anymore. upsetting given I paid $50+ for it. it was great while it lasted! Read more

I purchased this in August of 2024 and set it up for my cat within a few days of receiving it. It took the better part of 4-5 weeks-ish for my cat to warm up to it and start drinking 'regularly' from it. (I only have a single 10yo male tabby). Originally I had set the fountain to the timer mode (turns on like every 20 minutes for 30 seconds, or vice/versa, something like that), but shortly after we committed to using it and only it, I set it to motion activated. Battery life: There are two things that drastically affect the battery life. First, please keep in mind that every cat, and their diet, is different, and this is very important because wet food vs dry foot makes a huge difference in how much water a cat is going to drink, which then impacts how many trips to the water bowl they'll make... and the more they visit it, the more the motion sensor turns it on, thus the faster the battery will drain! My cat is on a "urinary tract health" diet, so it's wet canned cat food specifically to help keep him hydrated (he had a blockage a couple year ago), as such he does not need to drink as much water as a cat that eats dry cat food (for example). The second thing that affects the battery life is if it's on motion activated or timer. If motion activated, it'll drain quicker, especially if the fountain is in a high traffic/common area that sees a lot of motion, like a kitchen or bathroom. Keep that in mind! (Read my first of two complaints below). ***This being said, the battery usually lasts us about 3 weeks per charge, give or take a few days.*** Cleaning: It's considerably easy to take apart and clean, just don't be lazy about it and you won't make extra work for yourself the next time you have to clean it! Keep it clean and it should last a while. -> FYI, THE BATTERY PACK IS NOT MEANT TO GET WET!!! To help make cleaning easier, I take everything apart and put it all in one side of the sink, minus the battery pack... I start with that. Take the little scrubby brush that comes with this, get it wet, put a drop of soap on it, and plunge that sucker in and out a few times from the bottom of the battery pack, and from the front a few times. TO RINSE the battery pack out, provided you didn't get the whole thing wet... simply connect it to the fountain, submerge the pump in clean water, turn it on, and let it rinse ~itself~ out! No need to try to turn your faucet on ~just right~ so you can try to aim that tiny stream of water into one end of the battery pack to rinse it out, hoping to not get anything else wet.... like the two holes where the battery connectors are, or the top where the power button is. The battery pack IS NOT water proof. Moving on, set the battery to the side, wash the reservoir with luke warm water, NOT HOT water, warm... run it too hot and you can ruin the anti-microbial coating they put on the inside of this thing. Also, DO NOT USE ANYTHING ABRASIVE to clean anything plastic! Not even those "scratch-free" dish wand sponge thingamabobs! SOS pads and scotch-brite pads WILL ruin the coating/surface of the plastic VERY EASILY. I use a quarter sheet of paper towel, a few drops of Dawn dish soap, and luke warm water. Wipe every surface, every corner, every hole and indentation... wash that sucker until you don't feel anymore slimy cat spiddle anywhere! The stainless steel water pan however, ugh... we have very hard city water, so I have to use a fine SOS/steel wool pad to clean the hard water deposit "ring" that sets in near the topmost edge of the pan, and right where it pours out onto the pan. I try to use a little force as needed, but still. (Thankfully I listened to other reviewers and went with the stainless steel pan instead of the plastic pan!) The pump is the last thing I clean, which is easy enough to take apart... once I realized it does in fact come apart. Just pull off the end plastic piece where the sponge is, then use a fingernail or a fork handle to pull ~out~ the next piece of plastic - which conceals the impeller. The impeller is only held in by magnetic force, so be careful to not drop it down the sink! Scrub everything with the brush, rinse, put back together, done. >>>I only have TWO complaints<<< The motion sensor is so overly sensitive that it's just absurd! That thing will pick up movement from across the solar system! I kid you not, in the darkest of rooms and from down the hallway, this thing would even detect a ninja! You so much as fart in the general direction of the motion sensor, and it WILL turn on!!! What did I do about that? I took some black "3D Puffy Paint" (fabric paint) and painted the sensor, all but a tiny hole smack-dab in the center of the eyeball thing, about the diameter of a q-tip stick. Now it only turns on when the cat (or someone else) is right in front of it, still a bit sensitive at a distance straight in front of it, but at least movement off to the sides are ignored now. Why puffy paint and not something like a sharpie/permanent marker? Permanent markers have a strong odor, and cats are likely to steer clear of something that smells funky. Puffy paint smells when wet, but not so much when cured.... and because it cures/dries into a rubber-like substance, it also serves to waterproof the edges around the motion sensor, which is nice for those times when the cat feels like playing instead of drinking and splashes water all the way to Timbuktu and everywhere in between! If this lasts at least 8 months, which I don't see why it wouldn't, I would buy another one for the price, the cat drinks more water now than he was before, and he... plays more... than he did before. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but hey, keeps him entertained, and an otherwise entertained cat is a cat that isn't using your hand for entertainment... you know, that hand that slid off the edge of the couch when you decided to take a nap, so the cat comes along and starts out by nudging your hand, then licking your fingers, then BITING THOSE FINGERS and going to town on it like a scene out of pet cemetery kind of entertainment!!! YEAH... like that! The second complaint I have is with the filters, but this is a personal preference thing and not a performance/functionality whatever complaint. (In other words, this complaint isn't the manufacturer's fault). I don't like the filters having everything in them that they have in them, and they're an added expenditure I don't like having. The filters have 3 things in them: Activated carbon (charcoal), helps keep the water fresh tasting and odorless; something "ion exchange" etc etc, to help reduce heavy metals/chemicals in the water; and there's a water softening agent, of sorts. This is in addition to the woven synthetic material that serves to keep hair and sediment from passing through the filter, and the sponge filter in the pump. So, I use filtered water from a Brita water pitcher to fill the fountain, therefore the aforementioned ion exchange granules are not needed. Also, the water softening granules are a no-go for us because my cat doesn't seem to like softened water, of any amount. SOOOoo, what I did was I bought a multi-pack of much cheaper filters from a 3rd party and a 1lb carton of activated carbon (for aquariums). I cut a slice in each of the 3 pockets per each filter, emptied the contents into the trash, then filled those pockets up with the carbon, finally resealing the slits with some medical grade super glue. Now I have much more robust filters that can stand up to being used, washed, and re-used several times before needing to be disposed of, and for a fraction of the cost - in the long run that is. *(If I weren't using water that was already filtered, I would get fewer uses out of each filter. Please keep that in mind). One thing to keep in mind about the filters, regardless if you hack them like I did or not... if & when the white woven material turns PINK even the slightest... THROW IT OUT! Don't even try washing it, just toss it in the trash, it's too late to save! If your filter(s) turn pink, that suggests you might want to start cleaning the fountain more often than you have been! This is more likely to happen with DOGS than with CATS though, because cat saliva actually has antiseptic and antibacterial properties in it! Anything else? Mmmm, no, that's about it... no, wait. It's quiet, I can't even hear it over the ambient noise throughout the house in the middle of the quiet night. YAY. Read more

I have had this fountain for 6 months to provide water for 2 cats. It has been amazing for us! It's easy to clean and replace the filters every couple of weeks. The battery power lasts more than a month (nearly 2) with the sensor feature going 24/7. I keep it in the master bathroom, and the noise is really quiet - I hear it when I use the bathroom and trip the sensor. Definitely quiet enough to sleep through for me (very light sleeper), and if it were in the actual bedroom a more sound sleeper would have no problem with it. Once I'm asleep, it wouldn't wake me in the same room, either. The blue light on it is pretty minimal, but someone very sensitive to light at night (like me) would probably prefer to have it in another room, around a corner, or behind something else so it's not directly in your eyeline - again, it wouldn't wake me but might annoy me trying to fall asleep. All that said, my two cats share this and drink MUCH more water every day than they did from a bowl or from another 'fountain' I purchased that dispensed water from a flower fixture on top. I'm very happy with this fountain and haven't had a single issue with it in 6 months of continuous use. Read more