So earlier today I decided to take apart the cats’ water fountain* and clean it out, since I had a new filter to put in and the sides of the fountain were looking slightly gunky (I blame the dog drool). So I dumped the water out, took everything apart, right down to the itty bitty pieces of the motor, and spent a good ten minutes scrubbing everything. I then carefully reassembled everything, popped the new filter in and put the fountain back and plugged it in… nothing. The adapter was warm, I could hear the “hum” of the motor, but I had no clue why it wouldn’t work. After taking apart the fountain two more times and putting it back together, I gave up.
But as I type this, the water fountain is once again running like it should. Apparently the little piece of rounded black plastic I found in the kitchen sink later this afternoon was an essential cover piece for the motor. How I missed that is beyond me, especially since I bought this fountain over two years ago and have taken it apart for cleaning at least once a month since the initial purchase. My only excuse is that I am too well rested. Seriously. I can want to cry from being so tired after only four hours of sleep, yet I’ll function fine for the entire day, and even for days of too-little sleep. Yet I get a good night’s sleep just ONE night (lastn ight I went to bed at 11:30pm and slept until 8:00am this morning!), and suddenly I’m not quite right, and definitely not running on all cylinders. Do any of you get like this?
There’s nothing quite so humbled-by-kitty as spending $70 on a water fountain and $11 every three months for water filters only to have a cat that shall remain nameless decide to lurf spare drops of water from the kitchen faucet.
Whenever I sleep for too long I feel absolutely awful! I now set my alarm really early, and can stay awake until gone 2am, then be up early the next day! Being a student set my body clock all out of whack, so now I’m trying to get back to “normal” lol!
Out of the whole blog entry, one word will stick with me forever. “lurf”. I love it!
I have many of those nights where I sleep a lot and then I can barely move around the day after.
Sometimes people don’t even realize how important is some part and yet you don’t even notice it until you put it in.
We bought colby one of those automatic water things and he’s afraid of it so we gave it to my mom. We noticed unless we used a regular dish, he’d drink from the toilet instead. Now that I think of it…. he does anyways. Weird animal.