actually very easy to take apart but nobody ever tells you to take it apart but when you take it
out you're like oh my god all the filters have been changing and all the scrubbing i've been
doing for the outer layer it doesn't matter because there's mold inside yeah hey friends
it's jess and jericho and this is part three of my collaboration with my good friend melocat today we
are discussing water dishes versus water fountains for cats water dishes in the water fountains do
you do you use a dish or do you use a fountain and what's your verdict on it because we use fountains
right now for the most part we have a few dishes just for the few who that prefers it but it seems
like it's fountains for the most part we thought ceramic was gonna be better because it's more
germ-free it's easier to clean but it turned out they don't like to drink from these what is it
for you guys so i use a stainless steel bowl and jericho's always been fine drinking still water
i've actually tried a water fountain before and he liked it you know of course at first they're kind
of like what is this and then they pat that like what is this but he did drink from it eventually
but i found that and that was actually a plastic one but i found that he he likes still water i
found that jericho basically gets all of his moisture and hydration from his food because i
mix a little bit of water with his ground raw for his supplements let them dissolve and mix
that with his food and then he eats the whole prey mice which are 67 or 70 percent moisture
so i don't really is that the ones you get from the snake stores that they feed to snakes yes so i
get it from a breeding facility they mainly market to reptile and zoo owners but you know cats and
dogs can eat whole prey too so they have all types of customers but i think they mainly started as
targeting you know reptiles i've read that you know in the wild cats wouldn't drink still water
they're more likely to drink fresh flowing water you know there's a little bit of circulation so
a water fountain can be good maybe your cat isn't drinking still water you might want to try a water
fountain you mentioned ceramic is more sanitary stainless steel is another option or glass
there are some people that actually craft water fountains they're going to be more expensive but
with plastic it's going to trap bacteria because it's porous yeah it's going to trap
bacteria no matter how many times you clean it especially if you're scrubbing that's going to
leave scratches and then more bacteria is going to lodge into those scratches
so maybe if if you find that your cat won't drink any other fountain won't drink still water and
plastic water fountain is the only way water is better than no water so if that's the case then
i would say have at least two going that way you can wash one and have the other one just in case
and replace it at least once yearly okay and i would also say i would also include to change
the filter more frequently than it says to change it i think most of them say like once every two
weeks i would say definitely check it clean it out completely once a week change the filter just to
be safe because you don't want your cat drinking bacteria rich water and replace it at least once
yearly i mean it's gonna be a lot of waste but again if your cat isn't drinking water and
that's the only option and you know you wanna do what's best for your cat obviously yeah actually i
noticed that too like about the filters like it says what two three weeks but when i have nine
cats it's like every five days if not right but not just because you have to think about you have
to think about the cat while they drink some food particles or bacteria in their mouth or saliva is
going to get into that fountain just and plus all the you know dust no matter how much you clean
yeah you're going to have dust and dirt you know especially if they're running around and playing
so it's just better safe than sorry because all that stuff is microscopic so you don't want
to wait until you can see the slime to clean it actually it was preventive i made a video actually
not too long ago when i actually took the pump apart which the instructions never tell you to
take the pumps apart but when you actually open it inside is so full of mildew if you ever had
a yucky fish tank i don't know if you ever had fish but you know how sometimes the pumps get
really gooey and there's almost like mildew and yucky stuff in there well you can actually find
that in the pump oh yeah you can take a look at that video it's actually very easy to take apart
but nobody ever tells you to take it apart but when you take it out you're like oh my god all
the filters have been changing and all the scrubbing i've been doing for the outer layer
it doesn't matter because there's mold inside yeah check out melocat's video right over meow
to take apart your cat's water fountain properly and clean that pump thanks for watching